Mao and Gandhi in the Fight Against Corruption: Popular Film and Social Change in China and India

Fleit, Krista Van

doi:10.1057/978-1-349-95822-1_15

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“…The local police officers are caricatures of the corrupt policeman, shaking down poor families for money and violently threatening Vijay/ Weijie. Chinese fans' desire (Bai 2008;Van Fleit 2018) to see narratives featuring comeuppance of corrupt police officers is partially fulfilled in the film, making it especially popular in China, even while the film purports to be about police in a different country.…”

Section: Indianization Sinificationmentioning

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Suspect narratives: “Sinifying” an “Indianized” Japanese story

Fleit

2022

International Journal of Asian Studies

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In 2013, the Malayalam film Drishyam, a suspenseful story of the cover up of an accidental murder, became a huge hit in India that inspired remakes in many regional languages including one in Hindi that, as with other recent Bollywood hits, traveled to China. This time, though, instead of screening the Hindi film in theaters, the narrative reached Chinese audiences with a Chinese language remake, titled Sheep Without A Shepherd《误杀》. The original film has been accused of lifting its story from a popular Japanese detective novel, The Devotion of Suspect X, which was also made into films in Japanese, Chinese, and Korean. This essay traces the many versions of the narrative to explore how comparing the Indian and Chinese films can recenter our understanding of global cinema and film circulation. When considering the many version of Drishyam, instead of focusing on tensions between center and periphery, we can examine both the anxieties and the creative power of cultural borrowing and the retelling of narratives in an increasingly inter-connected Asian film market

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Section: Indianization Sinificationmentioning

confidence: 99%