Philippa Gates is an Associate Professor and the Film Studies Program Coordinator at Wilfrid Laurier University.

Lisa Funnell is a Lecturer in Film Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University.

This collection examines the exchange of Asian identities at the levels of both film production and film reception amongst pan-Pacific cinemas. Topics include the reception of Hollywood films by Asian audiences, the construction of raced and gendered identity in Thai, Japanese, and Hong Kong cinemas, and pan-Pacific co-productions.

Introduction: The Reel Asian Exchange. Lisa Funnell and Philippa Gates Section I: Remixing/Remaking Formulas 1.Hong Kong Noir: American Film Noir and Asian Innovation, 1956-66, Philippa Gates 2. Drunken Master meets the Monkey King: Transnational Chinese Identities in Action, Lan Dong 3. Shoot-Out in Hokkaido: The "Wanderer" (Wataridori) Series and the Politics of Transnationality, Hiroshi Kitamura 4. Cultural Odor in the Global Order: Globalization and the Raced Japanese Body, Jun Okada Section II: Perception/Reception 5. Learning Bushido from Abroad: Japanese Reactions to The Last Samurai, Jayson Makoto Chun 6. Illegitimate Gloss: From Anna Leonowens' Tuptim to Contemporary Thai/American Sexploitation, Pahole Sookkasikon 7. Translating Hollywood Film to Chinese Audience: The Role of Agency and Appropriation in Transnational Cultural Encounters, Zhiwei Xiao 8. Questions of Cultural Proximity and the "Asian Popular": South Korean Audiences Watching Zhang Yimou's Martial Arts Blockbusters, Nikki J.Y. Lee 9. Trans-Action: Epic Tensions and Ethics of Memory in East Asian Co-Productions, Yun Mi Hwang Section III: Female Fandom/ Stardom 10. Migrating West...to the East: Transnational Chinese Canadians in Post-1997 Hong Kong Cinema, Lisa Funnell 11. From National Allegory to Global Commodity: The Cinematic Images of Gong Li, Ka F. Wong 12. The Transnational Journey of O Ren Ishii: The American Cultification of the Asian Female Avenger, Leung Wing-Fai Section IV: Emerging Subjectivities 13. Mysterious Object of Desire: The Haunted Cinema of Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Angela O'Hara 14. Adopted: Crossing (out) Boundaries of Adoptee Kinship and Global Belonging, Aino Rinhaug 15. Trauma and Taiwan's Melodrama: Seven Orphans of Cape No. 7, Sheng-Mei Ma