Coproducing Asia: Locating Japanese-Chinese Regional Film and Media

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Based on rare archival research as well as interviews with producers, Coproducing Asia provides compelling frames for understanding the significance of film and media coproduction in East Asia. Stephanie DeBoer guides readers through a rich genealogy of regional film and media coproduction, introducing innovative methods for their examination across decades, locations, and scales of production in East Asia and beyond.

Stephanie DeBoer is assistant professor of film and media studies in the Department of Communication and Culture at Indiana University, Bloomington.

"Coproducing Asia is a wonderful book that will have genuine and lasting significance. Stephanie DeBoer has produced a nuanced and practical account of the tensions and difficulties involved not only in the too rarely studied creative and business negotiations enabling a co-production, but also in the asymmetrical cultural investments and historical 'hauntings' at stake in such ventures and active in their differing sites of reception. It's a tour de force." -Meaghan Morris, author of Identity Anecdotes: Translation and Media Culture "East Asia functions as a single film market, in many respects, but too few scholars have the acumen to look beyond national borders and linguistic barriers to plumb the depths of this crucial area of inquiry. DeBoer is a welcome exception to the rule." -Gina Marchetti, author of The Chinese Diaspora on American Screens: Race, Sex, and Cinema