Contents

• Preface
• "Beautiful Publicity": An Introduction to Queer Asian Film
• Japan's Progressive Sex: Male Homosexuality, National Competition, and the Cinema
• The (Temporary?) Queering of Japanese TV
• Two Japanese Variants of the Absolute Transvestite Film
• Obscenity and Homosexual Depiction in Japan
• The Rise of Homosexuality and the Dawn of Communism in Hong Kong Film, 1993-1998
• Happy Alone? Sad Young Men in East Asian Gay Cinema
• The Cross-Gender Performances of Yam Kim-Fei, or The Queer Factor in Postwar Hong Kong Cantonese Opera/Opera Films
• Farewell My Fantasy
• The Outcasts: A Family Romance
• Homosexual Men (and Lesbian Men) in a Heterosexual Genre: Three Gangster Films from Hong Kong
• Remembered Branches: Towards a Future of Korean Homosexual Film
• Queering Bollywood: Alternative Sexualities in Popular Indian Cinema
• Memories Pierce the Heart: Homoeroticism, Bollywood-Style
• The Changing Image of the Hero in Hindi Films
• Long Life of a Short Film
• Transvestites and Transgressions: Panggagaya in Philippine Gay Cinema
• Index
• Reference Notes Included