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This book explores the intersections of film, justice, and the state in comparative perspective across a range of major Asian countries, including India, China, Japan, Korea, the Philippines, and Vietnam. The contributing authors cross the conventional border between the analysis of on-screen and off-screen intersections of law and cinema.

Contents:
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