Interrogating East Asian transnationalisms: film, television, spectatorship

Abstract

Recent years have witnessed a growing body of literature concerned with the exchange, flows, and receptions of media as they are negotiated across borders-flows certainly not new to the world stage, yet whose more recent configurations are often understood through "transnational" or "global" discourses as they interact with the interlocking networks of capital, informa- tion, technology, and images articulated by Arjun Appadurai. The heightened levels of exchange, cooperation, and co- production among East Asian media as well increasing presence of East Asian film in world festival markets over the past few decades certainly reflect such global "flows within flows." At the same time, attention to particular (East Asian) locations, configurations, and discursive contexts seems necessary if we are to explain with any significance the implications of such transnational media.