The Chinese Cinema Book

ISBN-13: 9781844573448 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 232 str.

Song Hwee Lim

Opis

The Chinese Cinema Book provides a comprehensive and richly-illustrated companion to the cinemas of the PRC, Hong Kong, Taiwan and the Chinese diaspora. Thematic sections address key issues, periods, genres and movements within Chinese film studies, with contributions from leading scholars in the field.

Spis treści

Acknowledgments.- Notes on Contributors.- Introduction: The Coming of Age of Chinese Cinemas Studies; S.Hwee Lim & J.Ward.- PART I: TERRITORIES, TRAJECTORIES, HISTORIOGRAPHIES.- Transnational Chinese Cinema Studies; C.Berry.- National Cinema as Translocal Practice: Reflections on Chinese Film Historiography; Y.Zhang.- Cinemas of the Chinese Diaspora; G.Marchetti.- Six Chinese Cinemas in Search of a Historiography; S.Hwee Lim.- PART II: EARLY CINEMA TO 1949.- Shadow Magic and the Early History of Film Exhibition in China; X.Huang & Z.Xiao.- The Making of a National Cinema: Shanghai Films of the 1930s; L.Pang.- Wartime Cinema: Reconfiguration and Border Navigation; Y.Wang.- Chinese Film-making on the Eve of the Communist Revolution; P.G.Pickowicz.- PART III: THE FORGOTTEN PERIOD: 1949–80.- The Remodelling of a National Cinema: Chinese Films of the 17 Years (1949–66); J.Ward.- Healthy Realism in Taiwan, 1964–80: Film Style, Cultural Policies, and Mandarin Cinema; G.Hong.- The Hong Kong Cantonese Cinema: Emergence, Development and Decline; S.Teo.- PART IV: THE NEW WAVES.- The Fifth Generation: A Re-assessment; W.Larson.- Taiwan New Cinema and Its Legacy; T.Lu.- The Hong Kong New Wave: A Critical Reappraisal; V.P.Y.Lee.- PART V: STARS, AUTEURS AND GENRES.- Dragons Forever: Chinese Martial Arts Stars; L.Hunt.- The Contemporary Wuxia Revival: Genre Remaking and the Hollywood Transnational Factor; K.Chan.- On the Shoulders of Giants: Tsai Ming-liang, Jia Zhangke, Fruit Chan and the Struggles of Second Generation Auteurism; J.Udden.- The Urban Generation: Underground and Independent Films from the PRC; J.McGrath.- Contemporary Mainstream PRC Cinema; Y.Braester.- Contemporary Meta Chinese Film Stardom and Transnational Transmedia Celebrity; A.Ciecko.- Afterword: Liquidity of Being; R.Chow.- Appendix.- Book-length Studies of Chinese Cinemas in the English Language; W.Wang, L.Williams & S.Hwee Lim.- Chinese Names; Z.Yijie.- Chinese Film Titles; Z.Yijie.- Index.