Chapter 1 Introduction Cinema, Law, and the State in Asia

Chapter 2 Cinema, Citizenship, and the Illegal City

Chapter 3 Bombay Bhai : The Gangster in and behind Popular Hindi Cinema

Chapter 4 Sex in the Transnational City: Discourses of Gender, Body, and Nation in the “New Bollywood”

Chapter 6 The Poverty of Justice: Postcolonial Condition and Representations of Justice in Contemporary Philippine Cinema

Chapter 7 Shadowboxing with the Censors: A Vietnamese Woman Directs the War Story

Chapter 8 Oshima Nagisa’s Ai no korida Reconsidered: Law, Gender, and Sexually Explicit Film in Japanese Cinema

Chapter 9 Freedom of Thought and National Security Law in Recent South Korean Cinema: The Road Taken (Seontaek) and Its Genre

Chapter 10 Did Qiu Ju Get Good Legal Advice?

Chapter 11 Blood in the Bathroom: Shanghai Triad as Gangster Noir

Chapter 12 Chinese Lawyers on the Silver Screen

Chapter 13 Playing with Intertextuality and Contextuality: Film Piracy On and Off the Chinese Screen