Chinese-Language Film : Historiography, Poetics, Politics

, by Lu, Sheldon H.; YEH, EMILIE YUEH-YU

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ISBN: 9780824828691 | 0824828690
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Copyright: 2/1/2005

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This volume, the most comprehensive work to date on Chinese film, explores the manifold dimensions of the subject and highlights areas overlooked in previous studies.

Acknowledgments

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SHELDON H. LU AND EMILIE YUEH-YU YEH

Introduction: Mapping the Field of Chinese-Language Cinema

(26)

PART ONE Historiography, Periodization, Trends

CHAPTER ONE MARY FARQUHAR AND CHRIS BERRY

Shadow Opera: Toward a New Archaeology of the Chinese Cinema

(25)

CHAPTER TWO ZHANG ZHEN

Bodies in the Air: The Magic of Science and the Fate of the Early "Martial Arts" Film in China

(24)

CHAPTER THREE MEILING WU

Postsadness Taiwan New Cinema: Eat, Drink, Everyman, Everywoman

(20)

CHAPTER FOUR SHUQIN CUI

Working from the Margins: Urban Cinema and independent Directors in Contemporary China

(24)

CHAPTER FIVE SHELDON H. LU

Chinese Film Culture at the End of the Twentieth Century: The Case of Not One Less by Zhang Yimou

120

(21)

PART TWO Poetics, Directors, Styles

CHAPTER SIX DAVID BORDWELL

Transcultural Spaces: Toward a Poetics of Chinese Film

141

(22)

CHAPTER SEVEN EMILIE YUEH-YU YEH

Poetics and Politics of Hou Hsiao-hsien's Films

163

(23)

CHAPTER EIGHT XIAOPING LIN

Jia Zhangke's Cinematic Trilogy: A Journey across the Ruins of Post-Mao China

186

(24)

CHAPTER NINE THOMAS Y.T. LUK

Novels into Film: Liu Yichang's Tête-Bêche and Wong Kar-wai's In the Mood for Love

210

(10)

CHAPTER TEN SHELDON H. LU

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Bouncing Angels: Hollywood, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Transnational Cinema

220

(17)

PART THREE Politics, Nationhood, Globalization

CHAPTER ELEVEN DARRELL W. DAVIS

Borrowing Postcolonial: Wu Nianzhen's Dou-san and the Memory Mine

237

(30)

CHAPTER TWELVE SHIAO-YING SHEN

Locating Feminine Writing in Taiwan Cinema: A Study of Yang Hui-shan's Body and Sylvia Chang's Siao Yu

267

(13)

CHAPTER THIRTEEN DAVID DESSER

Fists of Legend: Constructing Chinese Identity in the Hong Kong Cinema

280

(18)

CHAPTER FOURTEEN SHELDON H. LU

Hong Kong Diaspora Film and Transnational Television Drama: From Homecoming to Exile to Flexible Citizenship

298

(14)

CHAPTER FIFTEEN CHU YIU WAI

Hybridity and (G)local Identity in Postcolonial Hong Kong Cinema

312

(17)

CHAPTER SIXTEEN GINA MARCHETTI

Global Modernity, Postmodern Singapore, and the Cinema of Eric Khoo

329

JING NIE

Filmography

363

(8)

JING NIE

Chinese Glossary

371

(6)

JING NIE

Bibliography

377

(22)

Notes on Contributors

399

(4)

Index

403

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Chinese-Language Film : Historiography, Poetics, Politics

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