Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-260) and index.

Introduction : A trans-Asia approach to contemporary cultural and media studies -- Part I. Topography of trans-Asia : A postcolonial amnesia / Ariel Heryanto -- Hollywood north, Asiawood west: Vancouver as a transpacific film location / Helen Hok-Sze Leung -- The yellow Pacific: East Asian pop culture and East Asian modernities / Younghan Cho -- Part II. Media and Muslim cultures : Who wants to be a (Muslim) millionaire?: Motivation, modernity, and the power of positive narratives in contemporary Indonesia / Meghan Downes -- Modern manuals and Islamic inspiration: negotiating modernity in Malaysian Islamic-themed cinema / Leonie Schmidt -- Re-embedding media trajectories of the Islamic resurgence / Julian Millie -- Part III. Cultural politics across borders: ethnicity, gender, sexuality : Desiring the mainstream/enchantment as tactic (of recognition): minority visuality in Hong Kong South Asian youth's short films / Lisa Yuk-ming Leung -- Long live cuteness: S.H.E.'s `girl power' and the negotiations with nationalisms in the Chinese-language market / Fang-chih Irene Yang and Liew Kai Khiun -- Picturing queer India(s) / Shalmalee Palekar -- Part IV. Digital media and social action : A portrait of the creative worker as a young economic man: digital creative labour in South Korea / Yeran Kim -- The political styles of online activism in China / Guobin Yang and Wei Wang -- Media, place, sociality and national publics: Chinese international students in translocal networks / Fran Martin -- Afterword : On meta-media for trans-Asia / John Nguyet Erni.

Brings together leading and emerging scholars from Asia, North America and Australia to develop new perspectives on the key issues in contemporary Asian cultural and media studies.