This edited volume focuses on South and East Asian cinema, exploring transnational connections between these film industries from the point of view of narratives, topics and themes, as well as in terms of co-productions.

Clelia Clini is Research Associate at the Institute for Media and Creative Industries in Loughborough University, UK.

Rohit K. Dasgupta is Senior Lecturer in Cultural Industries at the School of Culture and Creative Arts in the University of Glasgow, UK.

Yanling Yang is Lecturer in Languages and Communications at the College of Humanities in the University of Exeter, UK.

1. Critical trends in transnational cinema: Inter-Asian productions and exchanges 2. The emergence of China-India film co-production: policy and practice 3. Subalterns and the city: Dubai as cross-cultural caravanserai in City of Life and Pinky Memsaab 4. Repetition and difference in East Asian gothic cinema: the Bunshinsaba film series 5. Between cultural performance and cultural activism: contemporary documentary film festivals in India 6. Is Everybody Kung Fu Fighting? Indian Popular Cinema and Martial Arts Films