A Companion to Chinese Cinema

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Yingjin Zhang
John Wiley & Sons, Mar 30, 2012 - Performing Arts - 704 pages
A Companion to Chinese Cinema is a collection of original essays written by experts in a range of disciplines that provide a comprehensive overview of the evolution and current state of Chinese cinema.
  • Represents the most comprehensive coverage of Chinese cinema to date
  • Applies a multidisciplinary approach that maps the expanding field of Chinese cinema in bold and definitive ways
  • Draws attention to previously neglected areas such as diasporic filmmaking, independent documentary, film styles and techniques, queer aesthetics, star studies, film and other arts or media
  • Features several chapters that explore China’s new market economy, government policy, and industry practice, placing the intricate relationship between film and politics in a historical and international context
  • Includes overviews of Chinese film studies in Chinese and English publications
 

Selected pages

Contents

History and Geography
23
dir Hou Yao Minxin Film 1928 a popular tale of
33
Chinese Socialist
42
Chinese Postsocialist
57
Hong Kong Cinema Before 1980
75
dir Chiang Waikwong Huixia Film 1953 Yam Kimfai left
92
The Hong Kong New Wave
95
Gender Negotiation in Song Cunshous Story of Mother
118
Chinese Womens Cinema
318
Esther Eng dated October 1928
322
encounters her stage counterpart in Woman Demon Human
331
protagonist treats her male patientlove interest
334
The Emergence
346
Arts and Media
359
DisInhabiting the Theatrical
377
Cinema and the Visual Arts of China
400

The Legacy of Taiwan New Cinema
133
Industry and Institution
151
following the revolutionary leaders death in 1925 From
159
and relies on the masses From Coming Back to Their Own Unit
166
Chinese Media Capital in Global Context
179
The Logic of the Market
197
From Xizi to Film Worker
218
pose in Fist of Fury dir Lo Wei Golden Harvest 1972
221
Mapping Chinese Cinemas Multiple Trajectories
239
Red Lantern dir Zhang Yimou Era 1991
241
Genre and Representation
263
in The Goddess dir Wu Yonggang Lianghua Film 1934
271
A Discourse of Film and Nation
284
Studio 1962 featuring an allfemale cast vocalized in Shanghainese
294
Wu Wenguang and the Performative
299
filmed by his subjects inJiang Hu dir Wu Wenguang 1999
310
Some Notes
417
Chinese Cinema and Technology
449
Issues and Debates
467
Chinese Film Scholarship in English
484
Masculinity
499
a divorced husband and wife try to save
515
Homosexuality and Queer Aesthetics
518
The Diasporic Formation
535
the protagonists performing a duet in front of a backprojected
542
the House of Commons in She A Chinese dir Xiaolu Guo
549
Figuring the United States in Chinese
552
Shanghai Studio 1980
560
Bibliography
575
Filmography
628
Index
655
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About the author (2012)

Yingjin Zhang is Professor of Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies at University of California, San Diego, and Visiting Chair Professor at Shanghai Jiaotong University, China. He is the author of The City in Modern Chinese Literature and Film (1996), Screening China (2002), Chinese National Cinema (2004), and Cinema, Space, and Polylocality in a Globalizing China (2010); co-author of Encyclopedia of Chinese Film (1998); editor of China in a Polycentric World (1998) and Cinema and Urban Culture in Shanghai, 1922-1943 (1999); and co-editor of From Underground to Independent (2006) and Chinese Film Stars (2010).

Bibliographic information

TitleA Companion to Chinese Cinema
Wiley Blackwell Companions to National Cinemas
EditorYingjin Zhang
PublisherJohn Wiley & Sons, 2012
ISBN144435597X, 9781444355970
Length704 pages
Subjects ›  › 

Performing Arts / Film / History & Criticism
Photography / Techniques / Cinematography & Videography
Social Science / Sociology / General
  
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