Suspect narratives
“Sinifying” an “Indianized” Japanese story
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20209921 |
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| Authors | Krista Van Fleit (University of South Carolina System, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 303-317 |
| Publication date | 2022-07-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Asian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1479-5914 • E-ISSN: 1479-5922 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s1479591422000067 |
| OpenAlex | W4283647206 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 12 |
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
Art · China · Hindi · Korean literature · Linguistics · Literature · Movie theater · Narrative · Political science · Suspect · Asian Culture and Media Studies · History · Law · Philosophy · Socioeconomic Development in Asia · South Asian Cinema and Culture
| Highly cited | No |
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