Transnational Chinese cinemas : identity, nationhood, gender / edited by Sheldon Hsiao-peng Lu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lu, Sheldon H., Author.

Contributor:

Lu, Sheldon H.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--China.

Motion pictures.

Motion pictures--Taiwan.

Motion pictures--China--Hong Kong.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (432 p.)

Place of Publication:

Honolulu, HI : University of Hawaii Press, 1997.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Zhang Yimou's first film, Red Sorghum, took the Golden Bear Award in 1988 at the Berlin International Film Festival. Since then Chinese films have continued to arrest worldwide attention and capture major film awards, winning an international following that continues to grow. Transnational Chinese Cinemas spans nearly the entire length of twentieth-century Chinese film history. The volume traces the evolution of Chinese national cinema, and demonstrates that gender identity has been central to its formation. Femininity, masculinity and sexuality have been an integral part of the filmic discourses of modernity, nationhood, and history. This volume represents the most comprehensive, wide-ranging, and up-to-date study of China's major cinematic traditions. It is an indispensable source book for modern Chinese and Asian history, politics, literature, and culture.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Preface

Historical Introduction. Chinese Cinemas (1896-1996) and Transnational Film Studies / Lu, Sheldon Hsiao-peng

Part I. Nation-Building, National Cinema, Transnational Cinema

1. Anti-Imperialism and Film Censorship During the Nanjing Decade, 1927-1937 / Xiao, Zhiwei

2. Two Stage Sisters: The Blossoming of a Revolutionary Aesthetic / Marchetti, Gina

3. From "Minority Film" to "Minority Discourse": Questions of Nationhood and Ethnicity in Chinese Cinema / Zhang, Yingjin

4. National Cinema, Cultural Critique, Transnational Capital The Films of Zhang Yimou / Lu, Sheldon Hsiao-peng

Part II. The Politics of Cultural and National Identity in the Cinemas of Taiwan and Hong Kong

5. Constructing a Nation: Taiwanese History and the Films of Hou Hsiao-hsien / Yip, June

6. The Diaspora in Postmodern Taiwan and Hong Kong Film: Framing Stan Lai's The Peach Blossom Land with Allen Fong's Ah Ying / Kowallis, Jon

7. Breaking the Soy Sauce Jar: Diaspora and Displacement in the Films of Ang Lee / Dariotis, Wei Ming / Fung, Eileen

8. Transnational Action: John Woo, Hong Kong, Hollywood / Ciecko, Anne T.

9. Jackie Chan and the Cultural Dynamics of Global Entertainment / Fore, Steve

Part III. Engendering History and Nationhood: Cross-Cultural and Gendered Perspectives

10. Reading Formations and Chen Kaige's Farewell My Concubine / Kaplan, E. Ann

11. The New Woman Incident: Cinema, Scandal, and Spectacle in 1935 Shanghai / Harris, Kristine

12. Gendered Perspective: The Construction and Representation of Subjectivity and Sexuality in Ju Dou / Cui, Shuqin

13. The Concubine and the Figure of History: Chen Kaige's Farewell My Concubine / Larson, Wendy

14. Narrative Images of the Historical Passion: Those Other Women- On the Alterity in the New Wave of Chinese Cinema / Zheng, Yi

Chinese Glossary / Lu, Sheldon H. / Wang, May M.

Filmography / Ciecko, Anne T. / Lu, Sheldon H.

Bibliography / Lu, Sheldon H. / Wang, May M.

Notes on Contributors

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 369-401) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Aug 2019)

ISBN:

9780824865290

0824865294

9780585288451

0585288453

OCLC:

532692692