Chinese connections : critical perspectives on film, identity and diaspora / edited by Tan See-Kam, Peter X. Feng, and Gina Marchetti.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Tan, See Kam, 1958-

Feng, Peter X., 1966-

Marchetti, Gina.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--China.

Motion pictures.

Motion pictures, Chinese.

China.

Motion pictures, Chinese--United States.

United States.

Physical Description:

viii, 311 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2009.

Contents:

Part I Global Connections

1 False Consciousness and Double Consciousness: Race, Virtual Reality, and the Assimilation of Hong Kong Action Cinema in The Matrix / Peter X Feng 9

2 The Par-asian Cinematic Imaginary in Olivier Assayas's Irma Vep / Grace An 22

3 The HK Venture: The Francophone Cine-logocentric Nexus / Aaron Han Joon Magnan-Park 37

4 Wong Fei-Hung in Da House: Hong Kong Martial-Arts Films and Hip-Hop Culture / Frances Gateward 51

5 Same Difference: Racial Masculinity in Hong Kong and Cop-Buddy "Hybrids" / Gayle Wald 68

6 American Popular Music and Neocolonialism in the Films of Edward Yang / Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh 82

7 Hollywood and Taiwan: Connections, Countercurrents, and Ang Lee's Hulk / Gina Marchetti 95

8 Becoming Hollywood? Hong Kong Cinema in the New Century / Chuck Kleinhans 109

Part II Questions of Gender

9 "From Behind the Wall": The Representation of Gender and Sexuality in Modern Chinese Film / Zhou Xuelin 125

10 Beyond the Western Gaze: Orientalism, Feminism, and the Suffering Woman in Nontransnational Chinese Cinema / Andrew Grossman 138

11 Disappearing Faces: Bisexuality and Transvestism in Two Hong Kong Comedies / Helen Hok-Sze Leung 152

12 Staging Gay Life in China: Zhang Yuan and East Palace, West Palace / Chris Berry 165

13 Whose Fatal Ways: Mapping the Boundary and Consuming the Other in Border Crossing Films / Li-Mei Chang 177

14 Asian Martial-Arts Cinema, Dance, and the Cultural Languages of Gender / Aaron D. Anderson 190

Part III At the Millennium and Beyond

15 Singapore as a Society of Strangers: Eric Khoo's Mee Pok Man, 12 Storeys, and Be With Me / Tan See-Kam 205

16 Chinese Cinema Revisits the City: Beijing Trilogy and Global Urbanism of the 1990s / Jenny Kwok-Wah Lau 220

17 Taiwan Fever? Tsai Ming-Liang and the Everyday Postnation / Peter Hitchcock 234

18 The Spirits of Capital and Haunting Sounds: Translocal Historicism in Victim (1999) / Esther C. M. Yau 249

19 Zhang Yimou's Hero: The Temptations of Fascism / Evans Chan 263.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Chinese language filmography": pages [289]-297.

ISBN:

1592132677

9781592132676

1592132685

9781592132683

OCLC:

213495449