Sino-enchantment : the fantastic in contemporary Chinese cinemas / edited by Kenneth Chan and Andrew Stuckey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chan, Kenneth, Author.

Contributor:

Chan, Kenneth, editor.

Stuckey, Andrew, editor.

Series:

Edinburgh studies in East Asian film.

Edinburgh scholarship online.

Edinburgh studies in East Asian film

Edinburgh scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fantasy films--China--History and criticism.

Fantasy films.

Fantasy films--Taiwan--History and criticism.

Fantasy films--China--Hong Kong--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (305 pages)

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2021.

Summary:

Although Chinese film audiences have always maintained a foundational cultural interest in the fantastic, this trend has dramatically increased over the last decade. 'Sino-Enchantment' approaches this recent explosion of fantastic film in Chinese cinemas, where each re-envisioning of the form is determined by cultural, economic, political and technological factors to produce fresh inventions and creative reinventions of familiar narratives, characters and tropes.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Notes on the Contributors

Note on Romanisation

1 Introduction: Th e Fantastic as Sino-Enchantment in Contemporary Chinese Cinemas

PART I VISUALITY/VIRTUALITY

2 Heroic Human Pixels: Mass Ornaments and Digital Multitudes in Zhang Yimou’s Spectacles

3 The Spectacle of Co-Production in The Great Wall

4 The Blockbuster Breakthrough: The Fantastic in Hero

PART II GENRES OF SINO-ENCHANTMENT

5 The Restrained Fantastic in Hou Hsiao-hsien’s The Assassin

6 An Auteurist Journey through the Fantastic Mode: A Case Study of Ho Meng-hua

7 Tracing the Science Fiction Genre in Hong Kong Cinema

8 Chick Flick Fantasy and Postfeminism in Chinese Cinema: 20 Once Again as a Transnational Remake

9 The Sacred Spectacle: Subverting Scepticism in Tsui Hark’s Detective Dee Films

PART III ETHICS

10 Almost Wild, But Not Quite: The Indexical and the Fantastic Animal Other in China-Co-Produced (Eco)Cinema

11 Domesticity, Sentimentality and Otherness: The Boundary of the Human in Monster Hunt

12 Transforming Tripitaka: Toward a (Buddhist) Planetary Ethics in Stephen Chow’s Adaptation of Journey to the West

Coda: Sino-Enchantment in a Time of Crisis

Selected Filmography

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on December 6, 2021).

ISBN:

1-4744-6087-9

1-3995-0164-X

1-4744-6086-0

OCLC:

1252426247