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Interim book		A century of Chinese cinema : look back in glory / edited by Po Fung...[et al.] Hong Kong: Leisure and Cultural Services Department, 2001. Call No: 71(51) CEN CorpAuthor: Hong Kong Film Archive Source: HK Place: Hong Kong Publisher: Leisure and Cultural Services Department PubDate: 2001 PhysDes: 56 p. : b&w ill. ; 25 cm Subject: HONG KONG; CHINA; CHINESE IN FILMS; CHINA IN FILMS; TAIWAN Summary: Analytical essays of 25 classic Chinese films from the last century, written by notable film critics and directors such as Gordon Chan, Evans Chan and Eddie Fong; critic Reeve Wong, and Hu Ke. In Chinese and English. Taken from http://www.lcsd.gov.hk/CE/CulturalService/HKFA/english/newsletter/nl16_2.html ISBN: 9628050117 More info
book		Chinese connections : critical perspectives on film, identity, and diaspora / edited by Tan See-Kam, Peter X Feng, and Gina Marchetti Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2009. Call No: 71(51) CHI Source: US Place: Philadelphia Publisher: Temple University Press PubDate: 2009 PhysDes: vii, 311 p. : ill. ; 23 cm Subject: CHINA; HONG KONG; TAIWAN; CHINESE IN FILMS ISBN: 9781592132683 Donation: donated by Senses of Cinema, 2012 Contents: False consciousness and double consciousness: race, virtual reality, and the assimilation of Hong Kong action cinema in The matrix / Peter X. Feng -- The par-Asian cinematic imaginary in Olivier Assayas's Irma Vep / Grace An -- The HK venture: the Francophone cine-logocentric nexus / Aaron Han Joon Magnan-Park -- Wong Fei-Hung in da house: Hong Kong martial-arts films and hip-hop culture / Frances Gateward -- Same difference: racial masculinity in Hong Kong and cop-buddy "hybrids" / Gayle Wald -- American popular music and neocolonialism in the films of Edward Yang / Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh -- Hollywood and Taiwan: connections, countercurrents, and Ang Lee's Hulk / Gina Marchetti -- Becoming Hollywood? Hong Kong cinema in the new century / Chuck Kleinhans -- "From behind the wall": the representation of gender and sexuality in modern Chinese film / Zhou Xuelin -- Beyond the western gaze: Orientalism, feminism, and the suffering woman in nontransnational Chinese cinema / Andrew Grossman -- Disappearing faces: bisexuality and transvestism in two Hong Kong comedies / Helen Hok-Sze Leung -- Staging gay life in China: Zhang Yuan and East palace, west palace / Chris Berry -- Whose fatal ways: mapping the boundary and consuming the other in border crossing films / Li-Mei Chang -- Asian martial-arts cinema, dance, and the cultural languages of gender / Aaron D. Anderson -- Singapore as a society of strangers: Eric Khoo's Mee pok man, 12 storeys, and Be with me / Tan See-Kam -- Chinese cinema revisits the city: Beijing trilogy and global urbanism of the 1990s / Jenny Kwok-Wah Lau -- Taiwan fever? Tsai Ming-Liang and the everyday postnation / Peter Hitchcock -- The spirits of capital and haunting sounds: translocal historicism in victim (1999) / Esther C.M. Yau -- Zhang Yimou's hero: the temptations of fascism / Evans Chan More info
book		Chinese national cinema / Yingjin Zhang New York: Routledge, 2004. Call No: 71(51) ZHA Author: Zhang, Yingjin Source: US Place: New York Publisher: Routledge PubDate: 2004 PhysDes: 328 p. ; ill. ; 24 cm Subject: CHINA; INDUSTRY, FILM. CHINA; INDUSTRY, FILM. HONG KONG; CHINESE IN FILMS; HISTORY OF CINEMA; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. CHINA Summary: ‘This introduction to Chinese national cinema, by a leading critic, covers three ‘Chinas’: mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. It traces the formation, negotiation and problematization of the national on the Chinese screen over ninety years. Historical and comparative perspectives bring out the parallel developments in the three Chinas, while critical analysis explores thematic and stylistic changes over time…’ (Back cover) ISBN: 041517290 Contents: 1. Introduction: National cinema and China -- 2. Cinema and national traditions, 1896-1929 -- 3. Cinema and the nation-people, 1930-49 -- 4. Cinematic reinvention of the national in Taiwan, 1896-1978 -- 5. Cinematic revival of the regional in Hong Kong, 1945-78 -- 6. Cinema and the nation-state in the PRC, 1949-78 -- 7. Cinema and national/regional cultures, 1979-89 -- 8. Cinema and the transnational imaginary, 1990-2002 More info
journal article		Clara Law's Floating Life and Australian identity in Metro (1997) iss.110 p.3-6 Author: Roxburgh, Mark PhysDes: Article; Bibliography; Illustration(s) Subject: CHINESE IN FILMS; RACIAL STEREOTYPES IN FILMS; LAW, CLARA; FLOATING LIFE (AT, Clara Law, 1996) Summary: Essay examines "Floating life" in relation to the discourse of Australian national identity and the Chinese immigrant experience. More info
newspaper article		Fear and Famine in The Australian [Review] (01/12/2015) p.16 Call No: CLIPPINGS FILE; TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE; YI JIU SI ER (FENG XIAOGANG 2012) Author: David Stratton PhysDes: Clippings File Article Subject: CHINESE IN FILMS; YI JIU SI ER (FENG XIAOGANG 2012) Summary: Review of the film Yi Jiu Si Er, English title, Back to 1942 Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars More info
Interim book		Fight and flight : the wuxia film in Chinese cinema / Stephen Teo Call No: 736.35 TEO Author: Teo, Stephen PhysDes: 262 p ; 29 cm Subject: HONG KONG; TAIWAN; CHINESE IN FILMS; CHINA; GENRES; ORIENTAL ACTION FILMS; HU, KING; CHANG, CHEH Summary: This dissertation is a history of the wuxia genre demonstrating how it has underpinned the development of three Chinese cinemas: Shanghai, Hong Kong and Taiwan. [Taken from thesis summary.] Notes: PhD thesis More info
book		New Hong Kong cinema : transitions to becoming Chinese in 21st-century East Asia / by Ruby Cheung [New York]: Berghahn Books, 2016. Call No: 71(512.317) CHE Author: Cheung, Ruby Source: US Place: [New York] Publisher: Berghahn Books PubDate: 2016 PhysDes: xiv, 273 pages ; 24 cm Series: Berghahn on film Subject: HONG KONG; CHINA; HISTORY OF CINEMA; HISTORY OF CINEMA. CHINA; HISTORY OF CINEMA. HONG KONG; CHINESE IN FILMS Summary: "The trajectory of Hong Kong films had been drastically affected long before the city’s official sovereignty transfer from the British to the Chinese in 1997. The change in course has become more visible in recent years as China has aggressively developed its national film industry and assumed the role of powerhouse in East Asia’s cinematic landscape. The author introduces the “Cinema of Transitions” to study the New Hong Kong Cinema and on- and off-screen life against this background. Using examples from the 1980s to the present, this book offers a fresh perspective on how Hong Kong-related Chinese-language films, filmmakers, audiences, and the workings of film business in East Asia have become major platforms on which “transitions” are negotiated." -- BOOK BLURB Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-267), filmography (pages 233-240) and index ISBN: 9781782387039 Donation: Senses of Cinema Contents: -- list of illustrations -- acknowledgments -- notes on romanization, terminology, and information source -- abbreviations-- Introduction: the new Hong Kong cinema, cinema of transitions and East Asia -- Cinematic journeys and journeying in new Hong Kong films -- Outsider characters: Chineseness, and Hong Kong screen imagination and imageries -- Hong Kong filmmakers: authorial vision, self-inscription and social underdogs -- Ethnic Chinese film audiences: the red cliff experience in East and Southeast Asia -- Film policies and transitional politics: the newest East Asian film business network -- conclusion -- appendix -- filmography -- bibliography -- index -- More info
Interim book		Overseas Chinese figures in cinema / The 16th Hong Kong International Film Festival Hong Kong: Urban Council, 1992. Call No: FESTIVAL CATALOGUE SHELVES Edition: 1992 Source: HK Place: Hong Kong Publisher: Urban Council PubDate: 1992 PhysDes: 128p. : illus. : 29cm. Series: Hong Kong International Film Festival Catalogue Subject: HONG KONG; CHINESE IN FILMS Notes: The 16th International Hong Kong Film Festival 10.4.92-25.4.92 ISBN: 9627040363 Language: Cantonese and English More info
book		Playing to the world's biggest audience : the globalization of Chinese film and tv / Michael Curtin Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 2007. Call No: 203(51) CUR Author: Curtin, Michael Source: US Place: Berkeley, California Publisher: University of California Press PubDate: 2007 PhysDes: x, 341 p. : ill. ; 24 cm Subject: CHINA; HONG KONG; TAIWAN; SINGAPORE; GLOBALISATION; CHINESE IN FILMS Notes: Formerly CIP; Includes bibliographical references and index ISBN: 9780520251342 Contents: Introduction : media capital in Chinese film and television -- 1. The Pan-Chinese studio system and capitalist paternalism -- 2. Independent studios and the golden age of Hong Kong cinema -- 3. Hyperproduction erodes overseas circulation -- 4. Hollywood takes charge in Taiwan -- 5. The globalization of Hong Kong television -- 6. Strange bedfellows in cross-strait drama production -- 7. Market niches and expanding aspirations in Taiwan -- 8. Singapore : from state paternalism to regional media hub -- 9. Reterritorializing star TV in the PRC -- 10. Global satellites pursuing local audiences and panregional efficiencies -- 11. The promise of broadband and the problem of content -- 12. From movies to multimedia : connecting infrastructure and content -- Conclusion : structural adjustment and the future of Chinese media. More info
book		Primitive passions : visuality, sexuality, ethnography, and contemporary Chinese cinema / Rey Chow New York: Columbia University Press, 1995. Call No: 408.1(51) CHO Author: Chow, Rey Place: New York Publisher: Columbia University Press PubDate: 1995 PhysDes: xiv, 252 p. ; 24 cm Series: Film and culture Subject: INDUSTRY, FILM. CHINA; CHINA; CHINA IN FILMS; CHINESE IN FILMS; ZHANG, YIMOU; HAIZI WANG (CC, Chen Kaige, 1988); LAO JING (CC, Tianming Wu, 1987); HUANG TUDI (CC, Chen Kaige, 1985) Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-243) and index ISBN: 0231076827 (acid-free paper); 0231076835 (pbk.) LON: 94027796; 11040898 Contents: Part 1: Visuality, Modernity, and Primitive Passions -- Part 2: Some Contemporary Chinese Films -- 1. Digging an Old Well: The Labour of Social Fantasy -- 2. Silent is the Ancient Plain: Music, Filmmaking, and the Concept of Social Change in the New Chinese Cinema -- 3. Male Narcissism and National Culture: Subjectivity in Chen Kaige's King of the Children -- 4. The Force of Surfaces: Defiance in Zhang Yimou's Films -- Part 3: Film as Ethnography; or, Translation Between Cultures in the Postcolonial World More info
book		Remade in Hollywood : the global Chinese presence in Transnational cinemas / Kenneth Chan Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2009. Call No: 408.3(51) CHA Author: Chan, Kenneth Source: HK Place: Hong Kong Publisher: Hong Kong University Press PubDate: 2009 PhysDes: ix, 259 p. : ill. ; 23 cm Subject: CHINA; CHINESE IN FILMS; TRANSNATIONAL CINEMA; TRANSNATIONAL CHINESE CINEMA; HISTORY OF CINEMA; HISTORY OF CINEMA. CHINA; REMAKES; HOLLYWOOD Summary: "The dramatic surge of Chinese visibility in Hollywood has been spurred by Sino-chic talents such as directors Ang Lee, John Woo, Wong Kar-wai, Wayne Wang, and Zhang Yimou, and stars such as Jackie Chan, Jet Li, Chow Yun-fat, Gong Li, Zhang Ziyi, and Michelle Yeoh. Analyzing well-known films by Chinese stars and crew, and the influence they have had on Hollywood directors, Kenneth Chan describes how post-1997 notions of Chinese identity and cultural genres have been reinvented and repackaged by major US studios. Highlighting numerous contradictions and cultural anxieties evident in transnational Hollywood films, Chan suggests that many Chinese stars and directors have made painful compromises to get their films successfully launched into the global capitalist stream of cultural commodities. -- BOOK BLURB Notes: Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index ISBN: 9789622090569 Contents: -- acknowledgments -- Introduction : remaking Chinese cinemas, Hollywood style -- Visualizing Hong Kong : Hollywood's 1997 response to the Hong Kong handover -- The global return of the Wuxia pian (Chinese sword-fighting movie) -- Enter the triads : American cinema's new racialized criminal other -- Hollywood's Sino-chic : Kung fu parody, mimicry, and play in cross-cultural citationality -- Chinese supernaturalism : mythic ethnography and the mystical other -- Coda : global cinematic technologies of ethnic (un)representation -- coda: global cinematic technologies of ethnic (un)representation -- notes -- filmography -- bibliography -- index -- More info
journal article		Writing as a foreigner in UTS Review (Nov 1996) vol.2 iss.2 p.180-190 Author: Berry, Chris PhysDes: Book review; Bibliography Subject: CHINESE IN FILMS; IMPERIALISM AND THE CINEMA; GENDER AND THE CINEMA.CHINA Summary: A book review of 'Primitive passions: visuality, sexuality, ethnography and contemporary Chinese cinema', by Rey Chow. More info

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