Chinese National CinemaThis introduction to Chinese national cinema covers three 'Chinas': mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. Historical and comparative perspectives bring out the parallel developments in these three Chinas, while critical analysis explores thematic and stylistic changes over time. As well as exploring artistic achievements and ideological debates, Yingjin Zhang examines how - despite the pressures placed on the industry from state control and rigid censorship - Chinese national cinema remains incapable of projecting a single unified picture, but rather portrays many different Chinas. |
Contents
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Cinema and national traditions 18961929 | 13 |
Cinema as attractions 18961921 | 16 |
Cinema as narration 19226 | 22 |
Cinema and speculations 19279 | 37 |
arts artists and artistic theory | 51 |
a growing sense of nationalism | 57 |
Cinema and the nationpeople 193049 | 58 |
toward regional imagination | 185 |
Cinema and the nationstate in the PRC 194978 | 189 |
The nationalization of cinema 194952 | 190 |
Toward socialist realism 195365 | 199 |
The Cultural Revolution and beyond 196678 | 216 |
ideology and subjectivity | 223 |
Cinema and nationalregional cultures 197989 | 225 |
humanism the avantgarde and commercialism | 226 |
Prewar cinema 19307 | 59 |
Wartime cinema 193745 | 83 |
Postwar cinema 19469 | 95 |
cinema and modernity | 104 |
in the name of the nationpeople | 111 |
Cinematic reinvention of the national in Taiwan 18961978 | 113 |
Difficult postwar transition 194554 | 114 |
Two competing cinemas 195569 | 125 |
Political and industrial restructuring 19708 | 142 |
cinematic reinvention of the national | 147 |
Cinematic revival of the regional in Hong Kong 194578 | 150 |
From Shanghai to Hong Kong 194555 | 151 |
Competing studios 195665 | 163 |
Reinventing genres 196678 | 173 |
reimaging the national | 240 |
genre history identity | 249 |
history culture and nationhood | 256 |
Cinema and the transnational imaginary 19902002 | 259 |
of the global and the local | 260 |
art cinema beyond borders | 271 |
postsocialist cinema | 281 |
art capital and politics in the age of the WTO | 292 |
Notes | 297 |
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