The Chinese cinema book /
This revised and updated new edition provides a comprehensive introduction to the history of cinema in mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, as well as to disaporic and transnational Chinese filmmaking, from the beginnings of cinema to the present day. Chapters by leading international scholars are...
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| Language: | English |
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London :
BFI/Bloomsbury,
2020.
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| Edition: | Second edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Pt. 1 Territories, trajectories, historiographies
- 1. Transnational Chinese cinema studies / Chris Berry
- 2. National cinema as translocal practice: Reflections on Chinese film historiography / Yingjin Zhang
- 3. Cinemas of the Chinese diaspora / Gina Marchetti
- 4. Six Chinese cinemas in search of a historiography Song / Hwee Lim
- pt. 2 Early cinema to 1949
- 5. Shadow Magic and the early history of film exhibition in China / Zhiwei Xiao
- 6. The making of a national cinema: Shanghai films of the 1930s / Laikwan Pang
- 7. Wartime cinema: Reconfiguration and border navigation / Yiman Wang
- 8. Chinese film-making on the eve of the Communist Revolution / Paul G. Pickowicz
- pt. 3 The forgotten period: 1949
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- 9. The remodelling of a national cinema: Chinese film of the Seventeen Years (1949
- 66) / Julian Ward
- 10. Liminal cinema: PRC film genres of the new era / Michael Berry
- 11. Healthy realism in Taiwan, 1964
- 80: Film style, cultural policies and Mandarin cinema / Guo-Juin Hong
- 12. The Hong Kong Cantonese cinema: Emergence, development and decline / Stephen Teo
- pt. 4 The new waves
- 13. The Fifth Generation: A reassessment / Wendy Larson
- 14. Taiwan new cinema movement and its legacy / Tonglin Lu
- 15. The Hong Kong New Wave: A critical reappraisal / Vivian P. Y. Lee
- pt. 5 Stars, auteurs and genres
- 16. Transnational Chinese-language auteurism: Time, place, gender / James Udden
- 17. Dragons forever: Chinese martial arts stars / Leon Hunt
- 18. The early twenty-first-century wuxia revival: Genre remaking and the Hollywood transnational factor / Kenneth Chan
- 19. Independent documentary in China, Taiwan and Hong Kong / Luke Robinson
- pt. 6 Industry, market and technology
- 20. Contemporary mainstream PRC cinema / Yomi Braester
- 21. The urban generation: Underground and independent films from the PRC / Jason Mcgrath
- 22. Censorship, propaganda and film policy / Matthew D. Johnson
- 23. Alternative ways of seeing: Post-digital detours in Chinese cinema / Paola Voci.