Cinema, Law, and the State in Asia

Introduction PART I: INDIA AND SOUTH ASIA Islamic 'Terrorism,' Secularism, and Visions of Justice in India: Khalid Mohamed's Fiza; P.Kumar Cinematic Citizenship and the Illegal City; L.Liang Bombay Bhai: The Gangster in and behind Hindi Popular Cinema; C.K.Creekmur Sex in the Transnational City: Discourses of Gender, Body, and Nation in the New Bollywood; M.G.Durham PART II: SOUTHEAST ASIA Flexible Justice: A Woman Directs the Camera in Post-War Vietnam; K.Turner Bar Girls (Gai Nhay), Heaven's Net (Luoi Troi), and the Rise of a New Realist Cinema in Vietnam; M.Sidel Judicial Lack and Excess: Postcolonial Condition, Transnational Desire, and the Representations of Justice in Contemporary Philippine Cinema; R.Tolentino PART III: EAST ASIA The Road Taken (Seontaek): Freedom of Thought and National Security Law in South Korea; D.Han Oshima's Bullfight of Love Reconsidered: Law, Sexually Explicit Film, and Gender in Japanese Cinema; H.Hori Chinese Lawyers on the Silver Screen in the Pre-War Era; A.Conner Paradigms of Law and the State in Zhang Yimou's Filmmaking; M.Farquhar Playing with Intertextuality and Contextuality: Film Piracy On and Off the Chinese Screen; Y.Zhang