Sangjoon Lee is Assistant Professor at the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University. He is editor of Rediscovering Korean Cinema.

Cinema and the Cultural Cold War expertly utilizes rich archival material to tell a compelling story about cinema in Asia during the Cold War that describes the complexity of the film business and the myriad risks and failures. Read alongside other works such as Day and Liem (2010) and Shaw (2007), Lee's study is ground-breaking. It is a book for researchers and film historians, but also a highly readable story about the history of Cold War cinema.(South East Asia Research) Sang Joon Lee's study is in concordance with his other books and will be highly useful for academics and researchers in the field of Asian cultural politics. Readers will benefit from Lee's deep knowledge of cross-cultural interchange through the Asian cinema network.(Insight Turkey) Extensive archival research undergirds this first-rate analysis. The volume offers an excellent history of postwar Asian cinema in and of itself, but Lee's close analysis of the challenges of international coproduction and the development of a truly transnational Asian cinema in what he terms the First and Second Networks of Asian cinema elevates the volume and results in an original exploration of the relationship between cinematic production and the US's attempts to maintain dominance in the region. An important study.(Choice)

• Introduction: The Cultural Cold War and the Birth of the AsianCinema NetworkPart I: The First Network1. The Asia Foundation's Motion Picture Project2. The FPA, US Propaganda, and Postwar Japanese Cinema3. It's Oscar Time in Asia!4. Constructing the Anticommunist Producers' Alliance5. Projecting Asian Cinema to the WorldPart II: The Second Network6. The Rise and Demise of a Developmental State Studio7. Hong Kong, Hollywood, and the End of the NetworkEpilogue: From Asia to Asia-Pacific

Sangjoon Lee is Assistant Professor at the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University. He is editor of Rediscovering Korean Cinema.

Cinema and the Cultural Cold War expertly utilizes rich archival material to tell a compelling story about cinema in Asia during the Cold War that describes the complexity of the film business and the myriad risks and failures. Read alongside other works such as Day and Liem (2010) and Shaw (2007), Lee's study is ground-breaking. It is a book for researchers and film historians, but also a highly readable story about the history of Cold War cinema.(South East Asia Research) Sang Joon Lee's study is in concordance with his other books and will be highly useful for academics and researchers in the field of Asian cultural politics. Readers will benefit from Lee's deep knowledge of cross-cultural interchange through the Asian cinema network.(Insight Turkey) Extensive archival research undergirds this first-rate analysis. The volume offers an excellent history of postwar Asian cinema in and of itself, but Lee's close analysis of the challenges of international coproduction and the development of a truly transnational Asian cinema in what he terms the First and Second Networks of Asian cinema elevates the volume and results in an original exploration of the relationship between cinematic production and the US's attempts to maintain dominance in the region. An important study.(Choice)

• Introduction: The Cultural Cold War and the Birth of the AsianCinema NetworkPart I: The First Network1. The Asia Foundation's Motion Picture Project2. The FPA, US Propaganda, and Postwar Japanese Cinema3. It's Oscar Time in Asia!4. Constructing the Anticommunist Producers' Alliance5. Projecting Asian Cinema to the WorldPart II: The Second Network6. The Rise and Demise of a Developmental State Studio7. Hong Kong, Hollywood, and the End of the NetworkEpilogue: From Asia to Asia-Pacific

Sangjoon Lee is Assistant Professor at the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University. He is editor of Rediscovering Korean Cinema.

Cinema and the Cultural Cold War expertly utilizes rich archival material to tell a compelling story about cinema in Asia during the Cold War that describes the complexity of the film business and the myriad risks and failures. Read alongside other works such as Day and Liem (2010) and Shaw (2007), Lee's study is ground-breaking. It is a book for researchers and film historians, but also a highly readable story about the history of Cold War cinema.(South East Asia Research) Sang Joon Lee's study is in concordance with his other books and will be highly useful for academics and researchers in the field of Asian cultural politics. Readers will benefit from Lee's deep knowledge of cross-cultural interchange through the Asian cinema network.(Insight Turkey) Extensive archival research undergirds this first-rate analysis. The volume offers an excellent history of postwar Asian cinema in and of itself, but Lee's close analysis of the challenges of international coproduction and the development of a truly transnational Asian cinema in what he terms the First and Second Networks of Asian cinema elevates the volume and results in an original exploration of the relationship between cinematic production and the US's attempts to maintain dominance in the region. An important study.(Choice)

• Introduction: The Cultural Cold War and the Birth of the AsianCinema NetworkPart I: The First Network1. The Asia Foundation's Motion Picture Project2. The FPA, US Propaganda, and Postwar Japanese Cinema3. It's Oscar Time in Asia!4. Constructing the Anticommunist Producers' Alliance5. Projecting Asian Cinema to the WorldPart II: The Second Network6. The Rise and Demise of a Developmental State Studio7. Hong Kong, Hollywood, and the End of the NetworkEpilogue: From Asia to Asia-Pacific