The Chinese cinema book / edited by Song Hwee Lim, Julian Ward.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lim, Song Hwee, 1965- editor.

Ward, Julian, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--China--History.

Motion pictures.

China.

History.

Motion pictures--Taiwan--History.

Motion pictures--China--Hong Kong--History.

Motion pictures--Philosophy.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xv, 315 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

London : BFI, 2020.

Summary:

This revised and updated new edition provides a comprehensive introduction to the history of cinema in mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, as well as to disaporic and transnational Chinese film-making, from the beginnings of cinema to the present day. Chapters by leading international scholars are grouped in thematic sections addressing key historical periods, film movements, genres, stars and auteurs, and the industrial and technological contexts of transnational Chinese cinemas. -- Back cover.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 Territories, trajectories, historiographies

1. Transnational Chinese cinema studies / Chris Berry

2. National cinema as translocal practice: Reflections on Chinese film historiography / Yingjin Zhang

3. Cinemas of the Chinese diaspora / Gina Marchetti

4. Six Chinese cinemas in search of a historiography Song / Hwee Lim

pt. 2 Early cinema to 1949

5. Shadow Magic and the early history of film exhibition in China / Zhiwei Xiao

6. The making of a national cinema: Shanghai films of the 1930s / Laikwan Pang

7. Wartime cinema: Reconfiguration and border navigation / Yiman Wang

8. Chinese film-making on the eve of the Communist Revolution / Paul G. Pickowicz

pt. 3 The forgotten period: 1949

80

9. The remodelling of a national cinema: Chinese film of the Seventeen Years (1949

66) / Julian Ward

10. Liminal cinema: PRC film genres of the new era / Michael Berry

11. Healthy realism in Taiwan, 1964

80: Film style, cultural policies and Mandarin cinema / Guo-Juin Hong

12. The Hong Kong Cantonese cinema: Emergence, development and decline / Stephen Teo

pt. 4 The new waves

13. The Fifth Generation: A reassessment / Wendy Larson

14. Taiwan new cinema movement and its legacy / Tonglin Lu

15. The Hong Kong New Wave: A critical reappraisal / Vivian P. Y. Lee

pt. 5 Stars, auteurs and genres

16. Transnational Chinese-language auteurism: Time, place, gender / James Udden

17. Dragons forever: Chinese martial arts stars / Leon Hunt

18. The early twenty-first-century wuxia revival: Genre remaking and the Hollywood transnational factor / Kenneth Chan

19. Independent documentary in China, Taiwan and Hong Kong / Luke Robinson

pt. 6 Industry, market and technology

20. Contemporary mainstream PRC cinema / Yomi Braester

21. The urban generation: Underground and independent films from the PRC / Jason Mcgrath

22. Censorship, propaganda and film policy / Matthew D. Johnson

23. Alternative ways of seeing: Post-digital detours in Chinese cinema / Paola Voci.

Notes:

Previous edition: Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.

ISBN:

1911239538

9781911239536

9781911239529

191123952X

OCLC:

1102342262

Publisher Number:

99986763282