Futures of Chinese cinema : technologies and temporalities in Chinese screen cultures / edited by Olivia Khoo and Sean Metzger.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Khoo, Olivia.

Metzger, Sean, 1973-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion picture locations--China.

Motion picture locations.

Motion pictures--China.

Motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (298 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bristol, UK ; Chicago : Intellect, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

With the burgeoning interest in Chinese film, this interdisciplinary collection investigates how new technologies, changing production constraints and shifting viewing practices have shaped perceptions of Chinese screen cultures. Futures of Chinese Cinema contains essays by international scholars considering new directions in Chinese cinema. After the devastation of the economic crisis, the uncertainty of the Hong Kong handover and the events at Tiananmen Square in 1989, the late twentieth century and beyond has seen the emergence of a number of fresh new works from the region's film-makers.

Contents:

Front Cover; Preliminary Pages; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I: Historiography; Chapter 1: Celebratory Screens: Chinese Cinema in the New Millennium; Chapter 2: Island of No Return: Cinematic Narration as Retrospection in Wang Tong and New Taiwan Cinema; Chapter 3: Socialist Geographies, Internationalist Temporalities and Travelling Film Technologies: Sino-Soviet Film Exchange in the 1950's and 1960's; Chapter 4: Hong Kong Ghost in the Japanese Shell? Cross-racial Performance and Transnational Chinese Cinema

Chapter 5: Jia Zhangke and the Temporality of Postsocialist Chinese Cinema: In the Now (and then)Part II: Capital - Economic and Industrial Contexts; Chapter 6: From BitTorrent Piracy to Creative Industries: Hong Kong Cinema Emptied Out; Chapter 7: Genre Film, Media Corporations and the Commercialization of the Chinese Film Industry: The Case of 'New Year Comedies'; Chapter 8: Demand for Cultural Representation: Emerging Independent Film and Video on Lesbian Desires; Part III: Epistemologies; Chapter 9: The Queer Space of China: Expressive Desire in Stanley Kwan's Lan Yu

Chapter 10: Saving Face, or the Future Perfect of Queer Chinese/American Cinema?Chapter 11: Remaking the Past, Interrupting the Present: The Spaces of Technology and Futurity in Contemporary Chinese Blockbusters; Chapter 12: Multiple-screen Realities; Contributors; Index; Back Cover

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-45567-2

9786612455674

1-84150-345-2

OCLC:

646886121