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Chinese cinemas : international perspectives /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Chan, Felicia (Editor), Willis, Andrew (Editor)
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: London: Routledge, 2016.
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Table of Contents:
  • Chinese cinemas: international perspectives / Felicia Chan and Andy Willis
  • Part I. Textual constructions and industrial contexts
  • The deconstruction and intensification of "China", or primitive passions in Man of Tai Chi / Paul Bowman
  • Internationalising memory: traumatic histories and the PRC's quest to win an Oscar / A.T. McKenna and Kiki Tianqi Yu
  • Once upon a time in China and America: transnational storytelling and the recent films of Peter Chan / Gary Bettinson
  • Mediating trauma: the Nanjing Massacre, City of life and death, and affect as soft power / Corey Kai Nelson Schultz
  • Part II: Shifting foci: global and local Chinese cinemas
  • The uncertainty principle: reframing independent film in twenty-first century Chinese cinema / Eddie Bertozzi
  • Crossing Hennessy, Big Blue Lake and flowing stories: re-centring the local in recent Hong Kong cinema / Andy Willis
  • Blurred lines: the dialectics of the margins and the mainstream in The wedding banquet (Ang Lee, 1993) and Saving face (Alice Wu, 2004) / Juliette Ledru
  • Part III. Woman in the frame
  • First, not only: writing Chinese women's film authorship / Felicia Chan
  • Women characters, women's cinema and neo-liberal Chinese modernity: doubled and split / Chris Berry
  • The grain of jade: woman, repression, and Fei Mu's Spring in a small town / Rey Chow
  • Part IV. International perspectives
  • Michelangelo Antonioni's Chung Kuo Cina (1972): a moment of "explicitation" / Valentina Vitali
  • The Melbourne Controversy: Jia Zhangke and the Melbourne International Film Festival 2009 / Robert Hamilton
  • A Chinese diasporic festival film in the making: the interesting Case of Ann Hui's A simple life / Ruby Cheung.