The Oxford handbook of Chinese cinemas / edited by Carlos Rojas and Eileen Cheng-Yin Chow.

"Offering both a platform for cross-disciplinary dialogue and a mapping of Chinese cinema as an expanded field, this Handbook presents thirty-three essays by leading researchers and scholars intent on yielding new insights and new analyses using three different methodologies. Chapters in Part I inve...

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Other Authors: Rojas, Carlos, 1970-
Chow, Eileen Cheng-yin
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2013]
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Physical Description:xvii, 709 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Variant Title:
Chinese cinemas.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Jianhua Chen / D.W. Griffith and the Rise of Chinese Cinema in Early 1920s Shanghai
  • Kristine Harris / Ombres Chinoises: Split Screens and Parallel Lives in Love and Duty
  • David Der-wei Wang / Fei Mu, Mei Lanfang, and the Polemics of Screening China
  • Jie Li / A National Cinema for a Puppet State: The Manchurian Motion Picture Association
  • Yomi Braester / A Genealogy of Cinephilia in the Maoist Period
  • Poshek Fu / Cold War Politics and Hong Kong Mandarin Cinema
  • Tsung-yi Michelle Huang / Conceiving Cross-Border Communities: Mobile Women in Recent Hong Kong Cinema
  • Song Hwee Lim / Taiwan New Cinema: Small Nation with Soft Power
  • Michael Berry / Chinese Cinema with Hollywood Characteristics, or How The Karate Kid became a Chinese Film
  • Pheng Cheah / World as Picture and Ruination: On Jia Zhangke's Still Life as World Cinema
  • Stephen Teo / The Opera Film in Chinese Cinema: Cultural Nationalism and Cinematic Form
  • Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh / A Small History of Wenyi
  • Ban Wang / Art, Politics, and Internationalism: Korean War Films in Chinese Cinema
  • Gary Xu / Edification through Affection: The Cultural Revolution Films, 1974-76
  • Michael Eng / Reforming Vengeance: Kung Fu and the Racial Melancholia of Chinese Masculinity
  • Sean Metzger / Desire and Distribution: Queer/Chinese/Cinema
  • Yingjin Zhang / Thirdspace Between Flows and Places: Chinese Independent Documentary and Social Theories of Space and Locality
  • Ying Zhu / From Anticorruption to Officialdom: The Transformation of Chinese Dynasty TV Drama
  • Audrey Yue / New Media: Large Screens in China
  • Paola Voci / Online Small Screen Cinema: The Cinema of Attractions and the Emancipated Spectator
  • Jason McGrath / Acting Real: Cinema, Stage, and the Modernity of Performance in Chinese Silent Film
  • James Tweedie /.
  • Edward Yang and Taiwan's Age of Auteurs
  • Darrell William Davis / A Marriage of Convenience: Musical Moments in Chinese Films
  • Zhiwei Xiao / Policing Film in Early 20th Century China, 1905-1923
  • Laikwan Pang / Between Will and Negotiation: Film Policy in the First Three Years of People's Republic of China
  • Rey Chow / Fetish Power Unbound: A Small History of 'Woman' in Chinese Cinema
  • Louisa Schein / Ethnographic Representation Across Genres: The Culture Trope in Contemporary Mainland Media
  • Andy Rodhekohr / Conjuring the Masses: The Spectral / Spectacular Crowd in Chinese Film
  • Kwai-Cheung Lo / The Idea of Asia(nism) and Trans-Asian Productions
  • Eugene Wang / Film and Contemporary Chinese Art: Mediums and Remediation
  • Ying Qian / Crossing the Same River Twice: Documentary Re-enactment and the Founding of PRC Documentary Cinema
  • Yiman Wang / Remade in China: Cinema with "Chinese Elements" in the Dapian Age
  • Carlos Rojas / Along the Riverrun: Cinematic Encounters in Tsai Ming-liang's The River.