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Call No: 753(510) DEP
Author: Deppman, Hsiu-Chuang
Source: US
Place: Honolulu
Publisher: University of Hawai'i Press
PubDate: c2010
PhysDes: viii, 243 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
Subject: ADAPTATIONS; LITERATURE AND THE CINEMA; LITERATURE AND THE CINEMA. CHINA; CITY OF SADNESS, A [; CHINA IN FILMS; CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON (HK, Ang Lee, 2000); WO HU ZANG LONG (HK, Ang Lee, 2000); RAISE THE RED LANTERN (CC/HK/TZ, Zhang Yimou, 1991); RAISE THE RED LANTERN (CC/HK/TZ, Zhang Yimou, 1991) SEE DAHONG DENGLONG GAOGAO GUA; DAHONG DENGLONG GAOGAO GUA (CC/HK/TZ, Zhang Yimou, 1991); RED ROSE WHITE ROSE (HK/TZ, Stanley Kwan, 1994) SEE HONG MEI GUI BAI MEI GUI; HONG MEI GUI BAI MEI GUI (HK/TZ, Stanley Kwan, 1994); IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE [FA YEUNG NIN WA] (HK, Wong Kar-Wai, 2000); IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE (HK, Wong Kar-Wai, 2000) SEE FA YEUNG NIN WA; IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE [FA YEUNG NIN WA] (HK, Wong Kar-Wai, 2000); LITTLE CHINESE SEAMSTRESS (FR, Dai Sijie, 2002) SEE BALZAC ET LA PETITE TAILLEUSE CHINOISE; BALZAC ET LA PETITE TAILLEUSE CHINOISE (FR, Dai Sijie, 2002); TIME TO LIVE, THE TIME TO DIE, THE (TZ, Hou Hsiao-Hsien, 1986); TIME TO LIVE, THE TIME TO DIE, THE (TZ, Hou Hsiao-Hsien, 1986) SEE TONG NIEN WANG SHI; TONG NIEN WANG SHI (TZ, Hou Hsiao-Hsien, 1986); PERSONALS, THE (TW, Kuo-fu Chen, 1998) SEE ZHENG HUN QI SHI; ZHENG HUN QI SHI (TW, Kuo-fu Chen, 1998)
Summary: "This book is the first to put these landmark films in the context of their literary origins and explore how the best Chinese directors adapt fictional narratives and styles for film. Delving equally into the individual approaches of directors and writers, Hsiu-Chuang Deppman initiates readers into the exciting possibilities emanating from the world of Chinese cinema. The seven in-depth studies include a diverse array of forms (cinematic adaptation of literature, literary adaptation of film, auto-adaptation, and non-narrative adaptation) and a variety of genres (martial arts, melodrama, romance, autobiography, documentary drama). Complementing this formal diversity is a geographical range that far exceeds the cultural, linguistic, and physical boundaries of China. The directors represented here also work in the U.S. and Europe and reflect the growing international resources of Chinese-language cinema." -- BOOK BLURB
Notes: Formerly CIP; Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-233) and index
ISBN: 9780824834548
Donation: donated by Senses of Cinema 2013
Contents: -- acknowledgments -- introduction -- 1. Wang Dulu and Ang Lee: Artistic Creativity and Sexual Freedom in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon -- 2. Su Tong and Zhang Yimou: Women's Places in Raise the Red Lantern -- 3. Eileen Chang and Stanley Kwan: Politics and Love in Red Rose (and) White Rose -- 4. Liu Yichang and Wong Kar-wai: The Class Trap in In the Mood for Love -- 5. Dai Sijie: Locating the Third Culture in Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress -- 6. Hou Xiaoxian and Zhu Tianwen: Politics and Poetics in A Time to Live, A Time to Die -- 7. Chen Yuhui and Chen Guofu: Envisioning Democracy in The Personals -- conclusion -- notes -- bibliography -- selected filmography -- index --

Call No: 756(5) TEO
Author: Teo, Stephen
Source: UK
Place: Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; New York
Publisher: Routledge
PubDate: 2013
PhysDes: xv, 269 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm
Series: Media, culture and social change in Asia ; 30
Subject: INDIAN CINEMA; CITY OF SADNESS, A [; JAPAN; KOREA; TAIWAN; THAILAND; SINGAPORE; MALAYSIA; IRAN; BOLLYWOOD; POPULAR CULTURE AND THE CINEMA; CULTURE AND THE CINEMA; NATIONALISM AND THE CINEMA; THEORY; ASIAN COUNTRIES; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. ASIAN COUNTRIES; WORLD CINEMA; BLOCKBUSTERS; ANIMATION; HORROR FILM; GHOST FILMS; EROTIC FILMS; EROTIC FILMS. ASIA
Summary: "This book explores the range and dynamism of contemporary Asian cinemas, covering East Asia (China, Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan), Southeast Asia (Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia), South Asia (Bollywood), and West Asia (Iran), in order to discover what is common about them and to engender a theory or concept of "Asian Cinema". It goes beyond existing work which provides a field survey of Asian cinema, probing more deeply into the field of Asian Cinema, arguing that Asian Cinema constitutes a separate pedagogical subject, and putting forward an alternative cinematic paradigm. The book covers "styles", including the works of classical Asian Cinema masters, and specific genres such as horror films, and Bollywood and Anime, two very popular modes of Asian Cinema; "spaces", including artistic use of space and perspective in Chinese cinema, geographic and personal space in Iranian cinema, the private "erotic space" of films from South Korea and Thailand, and the persistence of the family unit in the urban spaces of Asian big cities in many Asian films; and "concepts" such as Pan-Asianism, Orientalism, Nationalism and Third Cinema. The rise of Asian nations on the world stage has been coupled with a growing interest, both inside and outside Asia, of Asian culture, of which film is increasingly an indispensable component--this book provides a rich, insightful overview of what exactly constitutes Asian Cinema." -- BOOK BLURB
Notes: Includes bibliographic references and index; Includes filmography
ISBN: 9781138815780
Contents: pt. I Styles -- 1.Kurosawa and classical style in Asian Cinema -- 2.Satyajit Ray and the Indian sensitivity of affect -- 3.The historical blockbuster style -- 4.The abstract transnational style of anime -- 5.Asian horror and the ghost-story style -- 6.The `Bollywood' style -- pt. II Spaces -- 7.Space in Asian melodrama -- 8.Iranian cinema and inward space -- 9.Domestic space and the family in South Korean cinema -- 10.Erotic space in Asian films -- pt. III Theory -- 11.The world and Asian Cinema -- 12.Asian Cinema and other cinemas.

Call No: 71(5) LEN
Author: Lent, John A., 1936-
Place: Bromley
Publisher: Christopher Helm
PubDate: 1990
PhysDes: x, 309 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 23 cm
Subject: INDUSTRY, FILM. ASIAN COUNTRIES; CITY OF SADNESS, A [; JAPAN; TAIWAN; KOREA; PHILIPPINES; MALAYSIA; SINGAPORE; INDONESIA; THAILAND; BURMA; INDIA; PAKISTAN; BANGALADESH; SRI LANKA
Notes: Asia. Film industries (BNB/PRECIS); Includes index; Bibliography: p. 279-292
ISBN: 0747020000
LON: 6874060

Call No: F023(51) CHI
CorpAuthor: China Film Corporation
Subject: CITY OF SADNESS, A [; FILMOGRAPHIES
Language: Chinese, English, French and Spanish

Call No: 71(51) CAT
Author: Wong Ain-ling (ed)
CorpAuthor: Hong Kong Film Archive
Place: Hong Kong
Publisher: Hong Kong Film Archive
PubDate: 2002
PhysDes: 414p ; 26 cm
Subject: CHINA IN FILMS; CITY OF SADNESS, A [; TAIWAN; GENRES; ASIAN COUNTRIES; SINGAPORE; GENDER AND THE CINEMA. CHINA; MASCULINITY IN FILMS; STUDIO SYSTEM; SHAW BROTHERS
Summary: The productions of Cathay / MP & GI have themselves become a myth of Hong Kong cinema. What accounts for its radiance and elegance? And why was the audience broken-hearted to see its decline? The Cathay Story may offer a little clue.... 400 pages thick with 16 colour pages.
ISBN: 9628050168
Language: Chinese and English

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: CITY OF SADNESS, A [; 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

Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE; DIGITAL CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: CITY OF SADNESS, A [
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Call No: FESTIVAL CATALOGUE SHELVES
Edition: 1990
Source: HK
Place: Hong Kong
Publisher: Urban Council
PubDate: 1990
PhysDes: 148p. : illus. : 29cm.
Series: Hong Kong International Film Festival Catalogue
Subject: CITY OF SADNESS, A [
Notes: The 14th International Hong Kong Film Festival 6-21.4 1990
ISBN: 9627040304
Language: Cantonese and English

Call No: 71(510) CHI
Author: Fu, Poshek (editor)
Source: US
Place: Urbana
Publisher: University of Illinois
PubDate: 2008
PhysDes: 270 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm
Series: Popular culture and politics in Asia Pacific
Subject: CITY OF SADNESS, A [; SHAW BROTHERS; HISTORY AND THE CINEMA. CHINA
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Includes filmography: (p. [255]-256)
ISBN: 9780252075001
Contents: Introduction: The Shaw Brothers diasporic cinema / Poshek Fu -- Shaw cinema enterprise and understanding cultural industries / Lily Kong -- Shaw's Cantonese productions and their interactions with contemporary local and Hollywood cinema / Law Kar -- Embracing glocalization and Hong Kong-made musical film / Siu Leung Li -- Three readings of Hong Kong nocturne / Paul G. Pickowicz -- The black-and-white Wenyi films of Shaws / Wong Ain-Ling -- Territorialization and the entertainment industry of the Shaw Brothers in Southeast Asia / Sai-shing Yung -- The Shaw Brothers' Malay films / Timothy P. Barnard -- Bridging the Pacific with Love eterne / Ramona Curry -- Black audiences, blaxploitation and kung fu films, and challenges to white celluloid masculinity / Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua -- Shaw Brothers cinema and the hip-hop imagination / Fanon Che Wilkins -- Reminiscences of the life of an actress in Shaw Brothers' movietown / Cheng Pei-pei ; translated by Jing Jing Chang and Jeff McClain.

Call No: 71(51) SIL
Author: Silbergeld, Jerome
Place: London
Publisher: Reaktion
PubDate: 1999
PhysDes: 352 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm
Subject: CITY OF SADNESS, A [; ALLEGORY IN FILMS; WOMEN IN FILMS. CHINA; MELODRAMA. CHINA; CHEN, KAIGE; XIE, JIN; ZHANG, YIMOU; QIU JU DA GUANSI (CC/HK, Zhang Yimou, 1992); HIBISCUS TOWN [FU RONG ZHEN] (CC, Xie Jin, 1987); HUANG TUDI (CC, Chen Kaige, 1985); HONG GAOLIANG (CC, Zhang Yimou, 1988); QINGCHUN JI (CC, Zhang Nuanxin, 1986); LUN HUI (CC, Huang Jianxin, 1989); BAWANG BIEJI (HK, Chen Kaige, 1993); HEI PAO SHI JIAN (CC, Huang Jianxin, 1986); BLACK CANNON INCIDENT, THE (CC, Huang Jianxin, 1986); DA YUE BING (CC, Chen Kaige, 1986); HAIZI WANG (CC, Chen Kaige, 1988); JU DOU (CC/JA, Zhang Yimou, 1990); DAHONG DENGLONG GAOGAO GUA (CC/HK/TZ, Zhang Yimou, 1991)
ISBN: 1861890508(pbk.)
LON: 20259534 20259534

Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE; CHINA
Author: Lin, Lilian
PhysDes: Clippings File Article
Subject: INDUSTRY, FILM. CHINA; CITY OF SADNESS, A [; EXHIBITION. CHINA
Summary: Report on the slowdown to box office growth in China. Speculation was that heavy discounts in previous years boosted box office sales but with the discounting over the attendences and box office has stablised. Chinese companies are looking to purchase Hollywood businesses and the USA are looking to get their film's shown in China

Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE; CHINA
Author: Schwartzel, Erich
PhysDes: Clippings File Article
Subject: EXHIBITION. CHINA; CITY OF SADNESS, A [
Summary: Looking at how China's exhibition industry is starting to influence how Hollywood blockbusters are made
Notes: I

Call No: 71(51) BER
Author: Berry, Chris
Place: New York
Publisher: Columbia University Press
PubDate: 2006
PhysDes: xi, 313 p. ; 23 cm
Series: Film and Culture
Subject: CITY OF SADNESS, A [; TAIWAN; MASCULINITY IN FILMS; FAMILY IN FILMS; INDUSTRY, FILM. CHINA; HISTORICAL FILMS. CHINA; WOMEN IN FILMS. CHINA; REALISM IN FILMS. CHINA; OPERA IN FILMS; LEE, ANG; LINGYU, RUAN
Summary: Explores Chinese cinema from its beginnings to the present day in relation to how China depicts its national identity.
ISBN: 0231137079
Contents: 1. Introduction: cinema and the national -- 2. Time and the National: History, Historiology, Haunting -- 3. Operatic Modes: Opera Film, Martial Arts, and Cultural Nationalism -- 4. Realist Modes: Melodrama, Modernity, and Home -- 5. How Should a Chinese Woman Look? Woman and Nation -- 6. How Should Chinese Men Act? Ordering the Nation -- 7. Where Do You Draw the Line? Ethnicity in Chinese Cinemas -- 8. The National in the Transnational

Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE; CHINA
Author: Schwartzel, Erich -- Chu, Kathy
PhysDes: Clippings File Article
Subject: CITY OF SADNESS, A [; COPRODUCTION. CHINA; INDUSTRY, FILM. USA; INDUSTRY, FILM. CHINA; WANDA GROUP
Summary: Report on the importance of China's financial support to Hollywood cinema, and how this is impacting the way blockbuster films are now made due to the sheer size of Chinese cinema exhibition

Call No: 71(51) CLA
Author: Clark, Paul, 1949
Place: Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] New York
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
PubDate: 1987
PhysDes: vii, 243 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm
Series: Cambridge studies in film
Subject: CITY OF SADNESS, A [; POLITICS AND THE CINEMA. CHINA
Notes: Includes index; Bibliography: p. 227-235
ISBN: 0521326389
LON: 5540259

Call No: 71(51) CHI
Author: Lim, Song Hwee (ed.); Ward, Julian (ed.)
Source: UK
Place: London
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan on behalf of the British Film Institute
PubDate: 2011
PhysDes: x, 218 p. : ill. ; 25 cm
Subject: CITY OF SADNESS, A [; HISTORY AND THE CINEMA. CHINA; HISTORY OF CINEMA. CHINA
Summary: "The Chinese Cinema Book provides an essential guide to the cinemas of the People's Republic of China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and the Chinese diaspora, from early cinema to the present day. With contributions from leading international scholars, the book is structured around five thematic sections: Territories, Trajectories, Historiographies; Early Cinema to 1949; the Forgotten Period: 1949-80; The New Waves; and Stars, Auteurs and Genres. This important collection addresses issues of film production and exhibition and places Chinese cinema in its national and transnational contexts. Individual chapters examine major film movements such as the Shanghai cinema of the 1930s, Fifth Generation film-makers and the Hong Kong New Wave, as well as key issues such as stars and auteurs. The book will be an invaluable resource for students and scholars, as well as for anyone wanting to deepen their understanding of the Cinemas of Greater China." -- BOOK BLURB
Notes: Formerly CIP; Includes bibliographical references and index; Includes filmography
ISBN: 9781844573448
Contents: -- Introduction: the Coming of Age of Chinese Cinemas Studies / Song Hwee Lim and Julian Ward -- Territories, Trajectories, Historiographies. Transnational Chinese Cinema Studies / Chris Berry -- National Cinema as Translocal Practice: Reflections on Chinese Film Historiography / Yingjin Zhang -- Cinemas of the Chinese Diaspora / Gina Marchetti -- Six Chinese Cinemas in Search of a Historiography / Song Hwee Lim -- Early Cinema to 1949. Shadow Magic and the Early History of Film Exhibition in China / Xuelei Huang and Zhiwei Xiao -- The Making of a National Cinema: Shanghai Films of the 1930s / Laikwan Pang -- Wartime Cinema: Reconfiguration and Border Navigation / Yiman Wang -- Chinese Film-making on the Eve of the Communist Revolution / Paul G. Pickowicz -- The Forgotten Period: 1949-80. The Remodelling of a National Cinema: Chinese Films of the 17 Years (1949-66) / Julian Ward -- Healthy Realism in Taiwan, 1964-80: Film Style, Cultural Policies, and Mandarin Cinema / Guo-Juin Hong -- The Hong Kong Cantonese Cinema: Emergence, Development and Decline / Stephen Teo -- The New Waves. The Fifth Generation: a Re-assessment / Wendy Larson -- Taiwan New Cinema and Its Legacy / Tonglin Lu -- The Hong Kong New Wave: A Critical Reappraisal / Vivian P. Y. Lee -- Stars, Auteurs and Genres. Dragons Forever: Chinese Martial Arts Stars / Leon Hunt -- The Contemporary Wuxia Revival: Genre Remaking and the Hollywood Transnational Factor / Kenneth Chan -- On the Shoulders of Giants: Tsai Ming-liang, Jia Zhangke, Fruit Chan and the Struggles of Second Generation Auteurism / James Udden -- The Urban Generation: Underground and Independent Films from the PRC / Jason McGrath -- Contemporary Mainstream PRC Cinema / Yomi Braester -- Contemporary Meta Chinese Film Stardom and Transnational Transmedia Celebrity / Anne Ciecko -- Afterword: Liquidity of Being / Rey Chow -- appendix 1: book-length studies of Chinese Cinema in the English language / Wan-Jui Wang, Louise Williams and Song Hwee Lim -- appendix 2: Chinese names / Zou Yijie -- index --

Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE; COPRODUCTION. AUSTRALIA
Author: Bodey, Michael
PhysDes: Clippings File Article
Subject: CITY OF SADNESS, A [; PRODUCTION. CHINA; COPRODUCTION. AUSTRALIA; COPRODUCTION. CHINA
Summary: In depth report on Australian producers trying to make inroads into the lucrative but tightly controlled Chinese film market. Article ties into an Australia-China Co-production forum held in Sydney as part of the International Chinese Film Festival

Call No: 71(51) CHI
Source: US
Place: Philadelphia
Publisher: Temple University Press
PubDate: 2009
PhysDes: vii, 311 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
Subject: CITY OF SADNESS, A [; TAIWAN
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

Call No: 71(51) CHI
Copy Management: Copy 1; Copy 2
Author: Semsel, George Stephen
Place: New York
Publisher: Praeger
PubDate: 1987
PhysDes: xvii, 191 p. : ill. ; 25 cm
Subject: CITY OF SADNESS, A [
Notes: Includes index; Bibliography: p. 185-186
ISBN: 0275926443 (alk. paper) : $34.85 (est.)
LON: 5245059

Call No: 71(51) CHI
Author: Berry, Chris
CorpAuthor: BFI
Source: UK
Place: London
Publisher: British Film Institute
PubDate: 2003
PhysDes: viii, 216 p.. ill.. 24 cm.
Subject: CITY OF SADNESS, A [; HEI PAO SHI JIAN (CC, Huang Jianxin, 1986); BLACK CANNON INCIDENT, THE (CC, Huang Jianxin, 1986); TOU-PEN NU-HAI (HK, Ann Hui, 1982); BOAT PEOPLE (HK, Ann Hui, 1982); BULLET IN THE HEAD, A (CN, Attila Bertalan, 1990); SINNUI YAUMAN (HK, Ching Siu Tung, 1987); CHINESE GHOST STORY, A (HK, Ching Siu Tung, 1987); CHUNGKING EXPRESS [CHONGQING SENLIN] (HK, Wong Kar-Wai, 1994); CHUNGKING EXPRESS [CHONGQING SENLIN] (HK, Wong Kar-Wai, 1994); WO HU ZANG LONG (HK, Ang Lee, 2000); ERMO (HK/CC, Zhou Xiaowen, 1994); WAN ZHONG (CC, Wu Ziniu, 1989); FLOATING LIFE (AT, Clara Law, 1996); HIBISCUS TOWN [FU RONG ZHEN] (CC, Xie Jin, 1987); IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE [FA YEUNG NIN WA] (HK, Wong Kar-Wai, 2000); YI GE DOU BU NENG SHAO (C, Zhang Yimou, 1999); TONG NIEN WANG SHI (TZ, Hou Hsiao-Hsien, 1986); HSIA NU (TZ, King Hu [pseud. of Hu Chin-Chuan], 1969); AIQING WANSUI (TZ, Tsai Ming-Liang, 1994); HSI YEN (TZ, Ang Lee, 1993); HUANG TUDI (CC, Chen Kaige, 1985); YI YI (JA/TZ, Edward Yang, 2000); CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON (HK, Ang Lee, 2000)
Summary: "As Chinese films have stormed the international cinema, they have stimulated a wide range of vigorous debate and insightful scholarship. 'Chinese Films in Focus: 25 New Takes' consists of 25 fresh and original readings of individual Chinese films. Mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and other parts of the diaspora are all included and historical coverage ranges from the 1930s to the present." [Taken from the back cover]
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN: 0851709869. v. pbk.
ID2: 150

Call No: 71(51) CHI
Author: Berry, Chris
Edition: Second Edition
Source: UK
Place: Basingstoke [England] ; New York
Publisher: British Film Institute/Palgrave Macmillan
PubDate: 2008
PhysDes: 287 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subject: CITY OF SADNESS, A [; TAIWAN; CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. CHINA; [FIFTEEN] 15 (SI, Royston Tan, 2003); BIG SHOT'S FUNERAL (HK/CC, Feng Xiaogang, 2002); DA WAN (HK/CC, Feng Xiaogang, 2002); BLACK CANNON INCIDENT, THE (CC, Huang Jianxin, 1986); HEI PAO SHI JIAN (CC, Huang Jianxin, 1986); MANG JING (CC/G/HK, Yang Li, 2003); BLIND SHAFT [MANG JING] (CC/GG/HK, Li Yang, 2003); BOAT PEOPLE (HK, Ann Hui, 1982); TOU-PEN NU-HAI (HK, Ann Hui, 1982); CENTER STAGE (HK, Stanley Kwan, 1991); RUAN LINGYU (HK, Stanley Kwan, 1991); CHINESE GHOST STORY, A (HK, Ching Siu Tung, 1987); SINNUI YAUMAN (HK, Ching Siu Tung, 1987); CHUNGKING EXPRESS [CHONGQING SENLIN] (HK, Wong Kar-Wai, 1994); CHUNGKING EXPRESS [CHONGQING SENLIN] (HK, Wong Kar-Wai, 1994); CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON (HK, Ang Lee, 2000); ERMO (HK/CC, Zhou Xiaowen, 1994); FAREWELL MY CONCUBINE (HK, Chen Kaige, 1993); GODDESS, THE (C, Yonggang Wu, 1934); HERO (HK/C, Yimou Zhang, 2002); IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE [FA YEUNG NIN WA] (HK, Wong Kar-Wai, 2000); YELLOW EARTH (CC, Chen Kaige, 1985); WAN ZHONG (CC, Wu Ziniu, 1989); FLOATING LIFE (AT, Clara Law, 1996); HIBISCUS TOWN [FU RONG ZHEN] (CC, Xie Jin, 1987); IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE [FA YEUNG NIN WA] (HK, Wong Kar-Wai, 2000); YI GE DOU BU NENG SHAO (C, Zhang Yimou, 1999); TONG NIEN WANG SHI (TZ, Hou Hsiao-Hsien, 1986); HSIA NU (TZ, King Hu [pseud. of Hu Chin-Chuan], 1969); AIQING WANSUI (TZ, Tsai Ming-Liang, 1994); HSI YEN (TZ, Ang Lee, 1993); HUANG TUDI (CC, Chen Kaige, 1985); YI YI (JA/TZ, Edward Yang, 2000)
Summary: "Chinese cinema continues to go from strength to strength. After art-house hits like Chen Kaige's Yellow Earth (1984) and Wong Kar-wai's In the Mood for Love (2000), the Oscar-winning success of Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) disproved the old myth that subtitled films could not succeed at the multiplex. Chinese Films in Focus II updates and expands the original Chinese Films in Focu: 25 New Takes with fourteen brand new essays, to offer thirty-four fresh and insightful readings of key individual films. The new edition addresses films from mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and other parts of the Chinese diaspora and the historical coverage ranges from the 1930s to the present." -- BOOK BLURB
Notes: Includes list of illustrations and index -- includes lists of Chinese names and Chinese film titles
ISBN: 9781844572373
Contents: Notes on contributors -- Introduction: one film at a time - again / Chris Berry -- 15: The Singapore failure story, 'slanged up' / Song Hwee Lim -- Big Shot's Funeral: Performing a post-modern cinema of attractions / Yingjin Zhang -- Black Cannon Incident: Countering the counter-espionage fantasy / Jason McGrath -- Blind Shaft: Performing the 'underground' on and beyond the screen / Jonathan Noble -- Boat People: Second thoughts on text and context / Julian Springer -- Centre Stage: A shadow in reverse / Berenice Reynaud -- A Chinese Ghost Story: Ghostly counsel and innocent man / John Zou -- Chungking Express: Time and its displacements / Janice Tong -- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Cultural migrancy and translatability / Felicia Chan -- Crows and Sparrows: Allegory on a historical threshold / Yiman Wang -- Durian Durian: Defamiliarisation of the 'real' / Esther M. K. Cheung -- Ermo: (Tele)visualising urban/rural transformation / Ping Fu -- Farewell My Concubine: National myth and city memories / Yomi Braester -- Flowers of Shanghai: Visualising ellipses and (colonial) absence / Gary G. Xu -- Formula 17: Mainstream in the margins / Brian Hu -- The Goddess: Fallen woman of Shanghai / Kristine Harris -- Hero: The return of a traditional masculine ideal in China / Kam Louie -- In the Mood for Love: Intersections of Hong Kong modernity / Audrey Yue -- Kekexili: Mountain Patrol: Moral dilemma and a man with a camera / Shuqin Cui -- The Love Eterne: Almost a (heterosexual) love story / Tan See-Kam and Annette Aw -- Not One Less: The fable of a migration / Rey Chow -- The Personals: Backwards glances, knowing looks and the voyuer film / Margaret Hillenbrand -- PTU: Re-mapping the cosmopolitan crime zone / Vivian Lee -- The Red Detachment of Women: Resenting, regendering, remembering / Robert Chi -- Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles: Redeeming the father by way of Japan? / Faye Hui Xiao -- Spring in a Small Town: Gazing at Ruins / Carolyn FitzGerald -- A Time to Live, A Time to Die: A time to grow / Corrado Neri -- A Touch of Zen: Action in martial arts movies / Mary Farquhar -- Vive L'Amour: Eloquent Emptiness / Fran Martin -- Wedding Banquet: A family (melodrama) affair / Chris Berry -- Woman, Demon, Human: The spectral journey home / Haiyan Lee -- Xiao Wu: Watching time go by / Chris Berry -- Yellow Earth: Hesitant apprenticeship and bitter agency / Helen Hok-sze Leung -- Yi Yi: Reflections on modernity in Taiwan / David Leiwei Li

Author: Zheng, Min
PhysDes: Article
Subject: CITY OF SADNESS, A [; ASIAN COUNTRIES; FESTIVALS
Summary: Article on the rising prominance of Chinese films screening internationally at festivals in the last decade.

Call No: 71(51) ZHA
Author: Zhang, Yingjin
Source: US
Place: New York
Publisher: Routledge
PubDate: 2004
PhysDes: 328 p. ; ill. ; 24 cm
Subject: CITY OF SADNESS, A [; INDUSTRY, FILM. CHINA; INDUSTRY, FILM. HONG KONG; 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

Call No: DVD RESEARCH FOLDER; DVD RESEARCH FOLDER
Author: Gronow, Nick
Subject: CITY OF SADNESS, A [; INDUSTRY, VIDEO
Summary: Starts of article mentions how Chinese mass production reduced the price of DVD players dropped 73% to $US 27in 2005. But now China’s prosperity will drive manufacturing prices upwards.
Notes: accessed from: Factiva. Dow Jones Reuters Business Interactive LLC. RMIT University Library. (14 May 2007).

Call No: 411.11 CIN
Author: Dennison, Stephanie; Dwyer, Rachel
Edition: 2021
Place: Edinburgh
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
PubDate: 2021
PhysDes: xiv,242 pages : illustrated ; 25 cm
Subject: MASHA AND THE BEAR [TV] (RU, 2007-); ANIMATED FILMS; BRAZIL; RUSSIA; INDIA; CITY OF SADNESS, A [; SOUTH AFRICA; BRICS COUNTRIES; SCIENCE FICTION DRAMAS; BOLLYWOOD; VIKING (RU, Andrey Kravchuk, 2016); SKYFALL (UK/US, Sam Mendes, 2012)
Summary: The apparent shift in power relations between the developed and developing world, along with the increasing emphasis that national and transnational organisations place on the role of ‘soft power’ in global foreign policy, has profound implications for global film culture. Focusing primarily on the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa), this innovative collection examines the diverse and often competing ways the group as a whole engages with film as a medium of artistic expression, and as a ‘soft power’ resource. The contributors explore the wider implications for world cinema of its members’ differing and dynamic positions in the global media landscape, and the book includes a comparative analysis by examining the post-imperial soft power of the UK at the time of Brexit. -- publisher's web site
ISBN: 9781474456272
Contents: Preface -- Introduction: Film as Soft Power / Stephanie Dennison -- 1. Soft Power and Cinema: A Methodological Reflection and Some Chinese Inflections / Song Hwee Lim -- 2. Building BRICS: soft power and audio-visual relations in transnational context / Stephanie Dennison -- 3. The Global Animation Market: Opportunities for Developing Countries / Alessandra Meleiro -- 4. (Masha and) the Bear Diplomacy: Russian Soft Power and Non-Governmental Agency / Vlad Strukov -- 5. The Limits of Hollywood as an Instrument of Chinese Public Diplomacy and Soft Power / Chris Homewood -- 6. The Second World War, Soviet Sports, and Furious Space Walks: Soft Power and Nation Branding in the Putin 2.0 Era / Stephen M. Norris -- 7. Popular Geopolitics, Soft Power and Strategic Narratives in Viking (2016) and Guardians (2017) / Robert A. Saunders -- 8. Challenging Imagined Communities: ‘Reversing the Gaze’ of Soft Power and Community Film Culture: the Case of South Africa / Paul Cooke -- 9. New Myths for an Old Nation: Bollywood, Soft Power and Hindu Nationalism / Rachel Dwyer -- 10. Soft Power and National Cinema: James Bond, Great Britain and Brexit / Andrew Higson -- Notes on Contributors

Call No: 408.3(5) CIN
Author: Ehrlich, Linda C. (Linda Channah), 1952; Desser, David
Edition: 1st ed
Place: Austin, Tex.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
PubDate: 1994
PhysDes: xii, 345 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm
Subject: CITY OF SADNESS, A [; JAPAN; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. CHINA; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. JAPAN; HUANG TUDI (CC, Chen Kaige, 1985); HEI PAO SHI JIAN (CC, Huang Jianxin, 1986); BLACK CANNON INCIDENT, THE (CC, Huang Jianxin, 1986); HAIZI WANG (CC, Chen Kaige, 1988); JU DOU (CC/JA, Zhang Yimou, 1990); GENROKU CHUSHINGURA (JA, Kenji Mizoguchi, 1942); YUKINOJO HENGE (JA, Kon Ichikawa, 1964)
Summary: China and Japan both have traditional art forms that have been highly developed and long studied. Noted film and art scholars explore how the spatial consciousness, compositionaltechniques and construciton of images in thesetraditional and moderm art forms also inform filmmaking in these two countries, so that film and art share the same culturally defined "methods of seeing."Of interest to historians and film scholars with applications beyond the Far Eastern context. It demonstrates that while mainstream Hollywood cinema has influenced filmmaking everywhere, other national cinemas cannot be completely understood without considering their indigenous traditions
Notes: Filmography: p. 323-326; Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN: 0292720866 (alk. paper); 0292720874 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LON: 10645466

Call No: 751.0 (5) JON
Author: Jones, Andrew F.
Edition: 2020
Place: Minneapolis
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
PubDate: 2020
PhysDes: ix, 274 pages : illustrated
Subject: CHINOISE, LA (FR, Jean-Luc Godard, 1967); CITY OF SADNESS, A [; TAIWAN; DYLAN, BOB; MUSIC IN FILMS; SHAW BROTHERS
Summary: What did Mao’s China have to do with the music of youth revolt in the 1960s? And how did the mambo, the Beatles, and Bob Dylan sound on the front lines of the Cold War in Asia? In Circuit Listening, Andrew F. Jones listens in on the 1960s beyond the West, and suggests how transistor technology, decolonization, and the Green Revolution transformed the sound of music around the globe. Focusing on the introduction of the transistor in revolutionary China and its Cold War counterpart in Taiwan, Circuit Listening reveals the hidden parallels between music as seemingly disparate as rock and roll and Maoist anthems. It offers groundbreaking studies of Mandarin diva Grace Chang and the Taiwanese folk troubadour Chen Da, examines how revolutionary aphorisms from the Little Red Book parallel the Beatles’ “Revolution,” uncovers how U.S. military installations came to serve as a conduit for the dissemination of Anglophone pop music into East Asia, and shows how consumer electronics helped the pop idol Teresa Teng bring the Maoist era to a close, remaking the contemporary Chinese soundscape forever. Circuit Listening provides a multifaceted history of Chinese-language popular music and media at midcentury. It profiles a number of the most famous and best loved Chinese singers and cinematic icons, and places those figures in a larger geopolitical and technological context. Circuit Listening’s original research and far-reaching ideas make for an unprecedented look at the role Chinese music played in the ’60s pop musical revolution. -- publisher's web site
ISBN: 9781517902070
Contents: Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. The East is Red: Towards a Sonic History of the 1960s -- 1. Circuit Listening at the Dawn of the Chinese 1960s -- 2. Quotation Songs: Media Infrastructure and Pop Song Form in Mao’s China -- 3. Fugitive Sounds of the Taiwanese Musical Cinema -- 4. Pirates of the China Seas: Vinyl Records and the Military Circuit -- 5. Folk Circuits: Rediscovering Chen Da -- 6. Teresa Teng and the Network Trace -- Appendix: “Listening to Songs in the Streets of Taipei” -- Hsu Tsang-Houei -- Notes -- Index

Call No: 79BEI REY
Author: Reynard, Berenice
Source: UK
Place: London
Publisher: bfi Publishing
PubDate: 2002
PhysDes: 95 p. : ill. ; 19 cm
Series: BFI MODERN CLASSICS
Subject: CITY OF SADNESS, A [; CITY OF SADNESS, A [
Notes: Includes Appendix 1: The Lin Family Genealogy pp.87-88 Appendix 2: Filmography pp.88-90 Notes pp. 90-94 Credits pp.94-95
ISBN: 0851709303

Call No: 408.1(5) COL
Author: Dissanayake, Wimal
Place: Bloomington
Publisher: Indiana University Press
PubDate: 1994
PhysDes: xxix, 224 p. ; 25 cm
Subject: IMPERIALISM AND THE CINEMA. ASIAN COUNTRIES; NATIONAL IDENTITY IN FILMS. ASIAN COUNTRIES; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. ASIAN COUNTRIES; JAPAN; CITY OF SADNESS, A [; TAIWAN; KOREA; THAILAND; INDONESIA; INDIA; SRI LANKA; VIETNAM; INDUSTRY, FILM. AUSTRALIA; HONG GAOLIANG (CC, Zhang Yimou, 1988); SHATRANJ KE KHILARI (II, Satyajit Ray, 1977)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN: 0253208955 (pbk. : alk. paper); 0253318041 (alk. paper)
LON: 10720440
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Call No: 408.1(5) COL
Author: Dissanayake, Wimal
Place: Bloomington
Publisher: Indiana University Press
PubDate: 1994
PhysDes: xxix, 224 p. ; 25 cm
Subject: IMPERIALISM AND THE CINEMA. ASIAN COUNTRIES; NATIONAL IDENTITY IN FILMS. ASIAN COUNTRIES; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. ASIAN COUNTRIES; JAPAN; CITY OF SADNESS, A [; TAIWAN; KOREA; THAILAND; INDONESIA; INDIA; SRI LANKA; VIETNAM; INDUSTRY, FILM. AUSTRALIA; HONG GAOLIANG (CC, Zhang Yimou, 1988); SHATRANJ KE KHILARI (II, Satyajit Ray, 1977)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN: 0253208955 (pbk. : alk. paper); 0253318041 (alk. paper)
LON: 10720440
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Call No: 81WONG COM
Source: US
Place: Chichester, West Sussex ; Malden, MA
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
PubDate: 2016
PhysDes: xvi, 627 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Series: Wiley Blackwell Companions to Film Directors
Subject: CITY OF SADNESS, A [; WONG KAR WAI; AS TEARS GO BY (HK, Wong Kar-Wai, 1989); ASHES OF TIME [DUNG CHE SAI DUK] (HK, Wong Kar-Wai, 1994); ASHES OF TIME REDUX (HK, Wong Kar-Wai, 1994); CHUNGKING EXPRESS [CHONGQING SENLIN] (HK, Wong Kar-Wai, 1994); DAYS OF BEING WILD [AH FEI ZHENG ZHUANG] (HK, Wong Kar-Wei, 1991); EROS (US/IT/HK/FR/LU/UK, Michelangelo Antonioni / Steven Soderbergh / Wong Kar-Wai, 2004); FALLEN ANGELS [DUOLUO TIANSHI] (HK, Wong Kar-Wai, 1995); GRANDMASTER, THE [YI DAI ZONG SHI] (HK/CC, Wong Kar Wai, 2013); HAPPY TOGETHER [CHUNGUANG ZHAXIE] (HK, Wong Kar-Wai, 1997); IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE [FA YEUNG NIN WA] (HK, Wong Kar-Wai, 2000); MY BLUEBERRY NIGHTS (HK/C/FR, Wong Kar-Wai, 2007); [TWO THOUSAND AND FORTY-SIX] 2046 (HK, Wong Kar-Wai, 2004)
Summary: Contains 26 essays addressing numerous topics including intertextuality, transnationality, gender representation, repetition, the use of music, color, and sound, depiction of time and space in human affairs, and Wong's portrayal of violence
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 586-599) and index. Filmography: pages 558-561
ISBN: 9781118424247
Donation: donated by Senses of Cinema
Contents: (from table of contents) Part One. Introduction. Wong Kar-wai: Invoking the universal and the local / Martha P. Nochimson -- Part two. Mapping Wong's liminality. 1. Transnational Wong / Ken Provencher -- 2. It is a restless moment: Wong Kar-wai and the phenomenology of flow / Joseph G. Kickasola -- 3. Wong Kar-wai and his jiang hu / Be´re´nice Reynaud -- Part three. Thresholds of texture and mood. 4. Wong Kar-wai's cinema of repetition / Ackbar Abbas -- 5. Wong Kar-wai: The optics of the virtual / Angelo Restivo -- 6. Color design in the cinema of Wong Kar-wai / Shohini Chaudhuri -- 7. The value of re-exports: Wong Kar-wai's use of pre-existing soundtracks / Giorgio Biancorosso -- Part four. In the corridors of history and culture. 8. Wong's ladies from Shanghai / Gina Marchetti -- 9. The Sinophone cinema of Wong Kar-wai / Audrey Yue -- 10. New queer angles on Wong Kar-wai / Helen Hok-Sze Leung -- 11. "Pity about the furniture": Violence, Wong Kar-wai style / Karen Fang -- 12. In the mood for food: Wong Kar-wai's culinary imaginary / Mike Ingham and Matthew Kwok-kin Fung -- 13. "Chungking Express", Tarantino, and the making of a reputation / David Desser -- Part five. Close-up of Wong's inflections of time and space. "Chungking Express": Slow - images - ahead / Raymond Bellour ; translated by Allyn Hardyck -- 15. Wong Kar-wai: The actor, framed / Joe McElhaney -- 16. Infidelity and the obscure object of history / Vivian P.Y. Lee -- 17. Metonymy, mneme, and anamnesis in Wong Kar-wai / Thorsten Botz-Bornstein -- Part six. Focus on individual films. 18. Serial, sequelae, and postcolonial nostalgia: Wong Kar-wai's 1960s Hong Kong trilogy / Yiman Wang -- 19. We can't go on not meeting like this: "Fallen angels" and Wong's intertextuality / Martha P. Nochimson -- 20. The third reality: "In the mood for love" / Michel Chion ; translated by Claudia Gorbman -- 21. Cinephiliac engagement and the disengaged gaze in "In the mood for love" / Yomi Braester -- 22. Wong's America, North and South: "My blueberry nights" and "Happy together" / Ken Provencher -- 23. Queer utopias in Wong Kar-wai's "Happy together" / Carlos Rojas -- 24. Wong Kar-wai's genre practice and romantic authorship: The cases of "Ashes of time redux" and "The grandmaster" / Stephen Teo -- 25. Wong Kar-wai, auteur and adaptor: "Ashes of time" and "In the mood for love" / Wai-ping Yau -- Filmography -- Appendix I. Wong works in television / Chih-ting Chen -- Appendix II. Wong works in advertising / Chih-ting Chen -- Selected bibliography -- Index

Call No: FESTIVAL CATALOGUE SHELVES
Edition: 1983
Source: HK
Place: Hong Kong
Publisher: Urban Council
PubDate: 1983
PhysDes: 224p. : illus. : 28cm.
Series: Hong Kong International Film Festival Catalogue
Subject: CITY OF SADNESS, A [; JIAN, QIN; SHILIN, ZHU
Notes: The Seventh Hong Kong International Film Festival March 24 - April 8, 1983
ISBN: 962704010X
Language: Cantonese and English

Call No: 71(5) CON
Source: UK
Place: Oxford
Publisher: Berg
PubDate: 2006
PhysDes: vi, 250 p. ; 24 cm
Series: Asian Cinema
Subject: ASIAN COUNTRIES; INDONESIA; MALAYSIA; SINGAPORE; VIETNAM; THAILAND; PHILIPPINES; INDIA; SRI LANKA; BANGALADESH; KOREA; CITY OF SADNESS, A [; TAIWAN; JAPAN
Summary: This book presents the most authoritative assessment of contemporary Asian cinema available. Each chapter describes the cultural aspects of popular film production, analyzing key films in the context of the national, the regional and the global. Topics covered include: film theory and Asian cinema, popular film genres, major industry figures, the "art film", connections between the state and commercial interests, cultural policies, representations of national identity, trends in international co-production, and more.
ISBN: 1845202376
ISSN: 17448719
Contents: -- Introduction to popular Asian cinema, with acknowledgements / Anne T. Ciecko; -- 1 Theorizing Asian cinema(s) / Anne T. Ciecko -- 2 Philippines : cinema and its hybridity / Jose B. Capino -- 3 Vietnam : chronicles of old and new / Panivong Norindr -- 4 Thailand : revival in an age of globalization / Anchalee Chaiworaporn and Adam Knee -- 5 Singapore : developments, challenges, and projections / Jan Uhde and Yvonne Ng Uhde -- 6 Malaysia : melodramatic drive, rural discord, urban heartaches / William van der Heide -- 7 Indonesia : screening a nation in the post-new order / Krishna Sen -- 8 Sri Lanka : art, commerce, and cultural modernity / Wimal Dissanayake -- 9 Bangladesh : native resistance and nationalist discourse / Zakir Hossain Raju -- 10 India : Bollywood's global coming of age / Jyotika Virdi and Corey K. Creekmur -- 11 Mainland China : public square to shopping mall and the new entertainment film / Augusta Lee Palmer -- 12 Taiwan : popular cinema's disappearing act / Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh -- 13 Hong Kong : cinematic cycles of grief and glory / Anne T. Ciecko -- 14 South Korea : film on the global stage / Hyangjin Lee -- 15 Japan : cause for (cautious) optimism / Darrell William Davis.

Call No: 62 ORR
Author: Orr, John, 1943
Place: Edinburgh
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
PubDate: c1998
PhysDes: xi,243 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Subject: CANADA; CITY OF SADNESS, A [; MASCULINITY IN FILMS; RELIGION AND THE CINEMA; COMMUNISM AND THE CINEMA; DOUBLES IN FILMS; EXPRESSIONISM; FILM NOIR; POLAND; PSYCHOLOGY AND THE CINEMA; SEX IN FILMS; SURREALISM AND THE CINEMA; ALLEN, WOODY; ALTMAN, ROBERT; ANTONIONI, MICHELANGELO; BEATTY, WARREN; BELMONDO, JEAN-PAUL; BERGMAN, INGMAR; BINOCHE, JULIETTE; BONNAIRE, SANDRINE; BURTON, TIM; CAGE, NICOLAS; CAMPION, JANE; CHABROL, CLAUDE; CHEUNG, LESLIE; COPPOLA, FRANCIS FORD; COSTNER, KEVIN; CRONENBERG, DAVID; DAHL, JOHN; DE NIRO, ROBERT; DE PALMA, BRIAN; DERN, LAURA; EGOYAN, ATOM; FIGGIS, MIKE; GERE, RICHARD; GONG, LI; GREENAWAY, PETER; HAUER, RUTGER; JAMESON, FREDRIC; KIESLOWSKI, KRZYSZTOF; LYNCH, DAVID; MALICK, TERRENCE; Pasolini, Pier Paolo; ROSSELLINI, ISABELLA; SCORSESE, MARTIN; SCOTT, RIDLEY; STONE, OLIVER; TRAN, ANH HUNG; WEIR, PETER; Wenders, Wim; WONG KAR-WAI; YOUNG, SEAN; ZHANG, YIMOU; ANDERSSON, BIBI; AUDRAN, STEPHANE; DUVALL, SHELLY; GIDLEY, PAMELA; JANDA, KRYSTYNA; KANESHIRO, TANESHI; LEUNG, TONY; LIN, BRIGITTE; KROTKI FILM O MILOSCI (PL, Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1988); KILL ME AGAIN (US, John Dahl, 1989); DAYS OF BEING WILD [AH FEI ZHENG ZHUANG] (HK, Wong Kar-Wei, 1991); WINGS OF DESIRE [HIMMEL UBER BERLIN, DER] (GW/FR, Wim Wenders, 1987); ADJUSTER, THE (CN, Atom Egoyan, 1991); BELLE NOISEUSE, LA (FR, Jacques Rivette, 1991); BLADE RUNNER (US, Ridley Scott, 1982); BLOWUP (UK/IT, Michelangelo Antonioni, 1966); CHINATOWN (US, Roman Polanski, 1974); COOK, THE THIEF, HIS WIFE & HER LOVER, THE (NE/FR, Peter Greenaway, 1989); DAYS OF HEAVEN (US, Terrence Malick, 1978); JFK (US, Oliver Stone, 1991); LAST SEDUCTION, THE (US, John Dahl, 1994); LIEBESTRAUM (US, Mike Figgis, 1991); MCCABE AND MRS MILLER (US, Robert Altman, 1971); CZLOWIEK Z MARMURA (PL, Andrzej Wajda, 1977); ONE FALSE MOVE (US, Carl Franklin, 1991); PERSONA (SW, Ingmar Bergman, 1966); PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK (AT, Peter Weir, 1975); RAGING BULL (US, Martin Scorsese, 1980); DAHONG DENGLONG GAOGAO GUA (CC/HK/TZ, Zhang Yimou, 1991); DESERTO ROSSO, IL (IT/FR, Michelangelo Antonioni, 1964); SHINING, THE (UK, Stanley Kubrick, 1980); STALKER (UR, Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979); TROIS COULEURS: BLEU (FR, Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1993); TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME (US, David Lynch, 1992); WILD AT HEART (US, David Lynch, 1990); CYCLO [XICH LO] (FR/V, Tran Anh Hung, 1995)
Summary: "'Contemporary cinema' is a major study of key developments in the cinema over the last thirty years. It reworks Pasolini's landmark concept of 'the cinema of poetry' to look at the transformation of film form in its encounter with society, the sacred, the subjective and the presence of the camera. In the 1970s, the influential forms of a cinema of poetry are analysed in key features by Altman, Herzog, Malick, Scorsese, Weir, Von Trotta and Tarkovsky while in the 1980s and 1990s the emergence of new filmmakers has meant a diffusion of different cinemas of poetry using new techniques and new poetries. Of key importance here is the work of Kieslowski, Lynch, Egoyan, Campion, Greenaway, Zhang Yimou, Tran Anh Hung and Wong Kar-Wai, as well as the reinvention of science fiction and film noir in American genre." Taken from back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN: 0748608362(pbk.) : No price
LON: 13772409
ID2: 291

Call No: 71(51) LEY
Author: Leyda, Jay, 1910
Place: Cambridge, Mass.
Publisher: MIT Press
PubDate: [1972]
PhysDes: xvii, 515 p. illus. 23 cm
Subject: CITY OF SADNESS, A [; AUDIENCES. CHINA
Notes: Includes bibliographical references
ISBN: 0262120461
LON: 88052

Call No: DVD RESEARCH FOLDER; DVD RESEARCH FOLDER
Author: Armitage, Catherine
Subject: APEX DIGITAL; CITY OF SADNESS, A [
Summary: The troubles of Chinese DVD manufacturer who are in dire financial straits. Their products sell particularily well in the USA where they are the 2nd most popular DVD player manufacturer behind Sony.
Notes: accessed from: Factiva. Dow Jones Reuters Business Interactive LLC. RMIT University Library. (14 May 2007).

Call No: 71(51) RAY
Author: Rayns, Tony; Meek, Scott
CorpAuthor: British Film Institute
Place: London
Publisher: British Film Institute
PubDate: 1980
PhysDes: 1 v. (various pagings) : ill. ; 30 cm
Series: BFI dossier ; no. 3
Subject: CITY OF SADNESS, A [; INDUSTRY, FILM. CHINA
Notes: Contains two chapters translated from Chinese
LON: 5988816

Call No: 71(51) ENC
Author: Yingjin Zhang; Zhiwei Xiao
Place: London New York
Publisher: Routledge
PubDate: 1998
PhysDes: 465 p. ; 25 cm
Subject: CITY OF SADNESS, A [; TAIWAN
Summary: This reference work is designed to provide, first of all, a comprehensive coverage of Chinese film in its historical, cultural, geopolitical, generic, thematic and textual aspects; and, secondly, a critical guide to assist the reader to navigate through these multiple aspects and to locate the exact information needed. In addition to the main body of entries on film people, film synopses, genres and subjects presented in alphabetical order, this book also containes: six historcal essays on Chinese, Hong Kong and Taiwan cinemas; classified contents list; cross-referencing throughout; further reading; bibliography; title index; name index; and glossary. [Edited from To The Reader]
ISBN: 0415151686

Call No: 736.35 TEO
Author: Teo, Stephen
PhysDes: 262 p ; 29 cm
Subject: TAIWAN; CITY OF SADNESS, A [; GENRES; 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

Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE; BOX OFFICE. CHINA
Author: Burkitt, Laurie
PhysDes: Clippings File Article
Subject: CITY OF SADNESS, A [; EXHIBITION. CHINA; DISTRIBUTION. CHINA; BOX OFFICE. CHINA; IP MAN 3 [YIP MAN 3] (HK, Wilson Yip, 2015)
Summary: Report on a scandal in the Chinese film industry where the film distributor Dayinmu Film Distribution was caught inflating ticket sales for the film IP MAN 3

Call No: 71(-77) FIL
Author: Downing, John D. H
Place: Brooklyn, NY, USA
Publisher: Autonomedia
PubDate: 1987
PhysDes: 317 p
Subject: THIRD WORLD; POLITICS AND THE CINEMA; AFRICAN COUNTRIES; MOROCCO; TURKEY; IRAN; INDIA; CITY OF SADNESS, A [; PHILIPPINES; CHILE; BRAZIL; CUBA; NATIVE AMERICAN CINEMA; SEMBENE, OUSMANE; XIE, JIN; SANJINES, JORGE; ALEA, TOMAS GUTIERREZ; CEDDO (SG, Ousmane Sembene, 1977)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references
ISBN: 0936756314
LON: 6649099

Call No: 30(51) WAN
Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
PubDate: 2003
PhysDes: 234 cm ; 23 cm
Subject: CITY OF SADNESS, A [; DISTRIBUTION; PIRACY; COPYRIGHT; TAIWAN
Summary: Framing Piracy examines film distribution - both legal and illegal - in the largest, mostly untapped market in the world: Greater China. Tracing networks of optical disc (VCD, DVD) and online piracy, this book tackles issues of politics, globalization, and technology. It features a wealth of original research, new distribution data, and interviews with film distributors, government officials, and film pirates. With changes afoot in China upon its entry into the World Trade Organization, this timely book shows that such transformations have far-reaching implications for policy, theory and practice. [Taken form back cover].
ISBN: 072519805

Call No: 79HER GLO
Source: UK
Place: Oxon
Publisher: Routledge
PubDate: 2010
PhysDes: xxvi, 226 p. ; 25 cm
Series: Routledge Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia
Subject: CITY OF SADNESS, A [; INDUSTRY, FILM. CHINA; LEUNG, TONY; YIMOU, ZHANG; YING XIONG (HK/C, Yimou Zhang, 2002); HERO (HK/C, Yimou Zhang, 2002)
ISBN: 97880415453158
Donation: donated by Stephanie Hemelryk Donald, 2010
Contents: Changing discourse of national identities and heroism. The political narrative(s) of Hero / GARY D. RAWNSLEY Recycled heroes, invented tradition and transformed identity / YINGJIE GUO The emperor and the assassin: China's national Hero and the myth of state origins / YIYAN WANG The king, the musician and the village idiot: images of manhood / KAM LOUIE Transformations of cultural perception, genre and stardom. Twenty-first century women warriors: variations on a traditional theme / LOUISE EDWARDS On "Tian Xia (All under heaven)" in Zhang Yimou's Hero / XIZOMING CHEN and MING-YEH T. RAWNSLEY Hero: rewriting the Chinese martial arts film genre / HAIZHOU WANG AND MING-YEH T. RAWNSLEY "Would you rather spend more time making serious cinema?": Hero and Tony Leung's polysemic masculinity / MARK GALLAGHER Fifteen minutes of fame: transient/transnational female stardom in Hero / OLIVIA KHOO Local vs. global: deconstructing global Chinese blockbusters. Camp pleasure in an era of Chinese blockbusters: internet reception of Hero in mainland China / SABRINA QIONG YU North American reception of Zhang Yimou's Hero / WENDY LARSON Heroic music: from Hunan to Hollywood and back / KATY GOW Visual effects magic: Hero's Sydney connection / MARY FARQUHAR Towards a global blockbuster: the political economy of Hero's nationalism / ANTHONY FUNG AND JOSEPH M. CHAN.

Call No: 409.5 (51) BER
Author: Berry, Michael
Source: US
Place: New York
Publisher: Columbia University Press
PubDate: c2008
PhysDes: x, 420 p. : ill. ; 25 cm
Series: Global Chinese culture
Subject: CITY OF SADNESS, A [; VIOLENCE IN FILMS. CHINA; HISTORY AND THE CINEMA. CHINA
Summary: "The portrayal of historical atrocity in fiction, film, and popular culture can reveal much about the function of individual memory and the shifting status of national identity.In the context of Chinese culture, films such as Hou Hsiaso-hsien's City of Sadness and Lou Ye's Summer Palace and novels such as Ye Zhaoyan's Nanjing 1937: A Love Story and Wang Xiaobo's The Golden Age collectively reimagine past horrors and give risen to new historical narratives. Michael Berry takes an innovative look at the representation of six specific traumas in modern Chinese history: the Musha Incident (1930), the Rape of Nanjing (1937-38); the February 28th Incident (1947); the Cultural Revolution (1966-76), Tiananmen Square (1989); and the Handover of Hong Kong (1997). He identifies two primary modes of restaging historical violence: centripetal trauma, or violence inflicted from the outside that inspires a reeexamination of the Chinese nation, and centrifugal trauma, which, originating from within, inspires traumatic narratives that are projected out onto a transnational vision of global dreams and, sometimes, nightmares. These modes allow Berry to connect portrayals of mass violence to ideas of modernity and the nation. He also illuminates the relationship between historical atrocity on a national scale and the pain experienced by the individual; the funtion of film and literature as historical testimony; the intersection between politics and art, history and memory, and the particular advantages of modern media, which have found new means of narrating the burden of historical violence. " -- BOOK JACKET
Notes: Formerly CIP; Includes bibliographical references (p. [365]-408) and index
ISBN: 9780231141628
Contents: Prelude. A history of pain -- 1. Musha 1930 -- 2. Nanjing 1937 -- 3. Taipei 1947 -- 4. Yunnan 1968 -- 5. Beijing 1989 -- Coda. Hong Kong 1997

Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE; AGENTS
Author: Schwartzel, Erich
PhysDes: Clippings File Article
Subject: AGENTS; CITY OF SADNESS, A [; WME-IMG [talent agency]
Summary: Hollywood based talent agency WME-IMG are moving to set up in China

Call No: 71(512.317) LAW
Author: Law Kar; Bren Frank
Source: US
Place: Lanham, Maryland
Publisher: Scarecrow Press, Inc.
PubDate: 2004
PhysDes: xviii, 375 p. ; 24 cm
Subject: CITY OF SADNESS, A [; WOMEN IN FILMS. CHINA; WOMEN IN FILMS. HONG KONG; ASIAN COUNTRIES; EXHIBITION. CHINA; PRODUCTION ASIA; ENG ESTHER
Summary: Starting with the first “Western shadow plays” shown in the late 1890s, motion pictures have played a significant role in China’s cultural existence for more than a century. Initially centered in Shanghai, Chinese cinema boomed in Hong Kong in the 1930s, aided by the advent of talkies and the influx of talent and investment from mainland China, Southeast Asia, and America. From the late 1940s, Hong Kong supplanted Shanghai as the “Hollywood of China”. In Hong Kong Cinema: A Cross-Cultural View, authors Law Kar and Frank Bren follow the story from Hong Kong’s early silent, Chuang Tsi Tests His Wife, through the martial arts craze of the 1970s, to the medium’s continued appeal for contemporary international audiences. Rather than provide a sweeping history, the authors focus on the impact of individual personalities, particularly local filmmakers and movie stars. They also consider Eastern and Western influences and examine major developments, including the changing role of women. By profiling key figures and events of the 20th century, this overview is the perfect introduction for anyone interested in Hong Kong’s contribution to world cinema. [Taken from back cover.]
ISBN: 0810849860

Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE
Author: Hartcher, Peter
PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: CITY OF SADNESS, A [
Summary: An article about China's growing influence in the film industry market

Call No: 210.4 IND
Author: Baltruschat, Doris (ed.); Erickson, Mary P. (ed.)
Source: US
Place: Toronto
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
PubDate: c2015
PhysDes: xii, 313 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Subject: FILMMAKING; INDEPENDENT FILMMAKERS; INDEPENDENT FILMS; INDEPENDENT PRODUCTION; INDEPENDENT DIRECTORS; DIRECTORS; PRODUCERS; CRITICISM; EUROPEAN CINEMA; BRITISH CINEMA; UNITED KINGDOM; AUSTRALIA; PERU; GREECE; TURKEY; IRAQ; CITY OF SADNESS, A [; AFRICA; MALAYSIA; CANADA; USA
Summary: "Independent Filmmaking around the Globe calls attention to the significant changes taking place in independent cinema today, as new production and distribution technology and shifting social dynamics make it easier for independent filmmakers to produce films outside both the mainstream global film industry and their own national film systems. Identifying and analyzing the many complex forces that shape the production and distribution of feature films, the authors detail how independent filmmakers create work that reflects independent voices and challenges political, economic, and cultural constraints. With chapters on the under-explored cinemas of Greece, Turkey, Iraq, China, Malaysia, Peru, and West Africa, as well as traditional production centres such as the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia, Independent Filmmaking around the Globe explores how contemporary independent filmmaking increasingly defines the global cinema of our time." -- TAKEN FROM FIRST PAGE OF BOOK
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and filmography
ISBN: 9781442626836
Donation: Senses of Cinema
Contents: -- foreword: producing independently in global industry / David Hamilton -- ackowledgments -- 1.The Meaning of Independence: Concepts, Contexts, and Interpretations / Mary P. Erickson -- pt. One Independent Film vis-a-vis the Local and Global Mainstream -- 2.An Increasingly Global Presence: Contemporary American Independent Cinema outside the United States / Yannis Tzioumakis -- 3.European Union Initiatives for Independent Filmmakers across Europe / Teresa Hoefert de Turegano -- 4.Dependency and Independence in British Independent Film / Erik Knudsen -- 5.From Aussiewood Movies to Guerrilla Filmmaking: Independent Filmmaking and Contemporary Australian Cinema / Mark David Ryan -- 6.Independent Filmmaking in the Peruvian Context: Seeking Meaning / Gabriela Martinez -- pt. Two The Meaning of Independence in Regions of Conflict and Change -- 7.In the Shadow of the Studios, the State, and the Multiplexes: Independent Filmmaking in Greece / Lydia Papadimitriou -- 8.Turkish Independent Cinema: Between Bourgeois Auteurism and Political Radicalism / Murat Akser -- 9.Filmmaking in Iraq: A Rebirth / Mary P. Erickson -- 10.The Grassroots Perspective: Sixth Generation Cinema and Independent Filmmaking in China / Hongwei Lu -- 11.Independent Filmmaking in Africa: New Voices and Challenges / Martin Mhando -- pt. Three Digital Media and the Independent Voice -- 12.Syiok Sendiri? Independent Filmmaking in Malaysia / Gaik Cheng Khoo -- 13.Independent Filmmaking in the Canadian Arctic / Doris Baltruschat -- 14.Digital Video Films as "Independent" African Cinema / Sheila Petty -- glossary -- filmography -- bibliography -- contributors --

Call No: 79HAI KAI
Author: Kaige, Chen; Zhi, Wan; Rayns, Tony
Source: UK
Place: London
Publisher: Faber and Faber Limited
PubDate: 1989
PhysDes: 121 p. ; 19 cm
Subject: CITY OF SADNESS, A [; KAIGE, CHEN; YIMOU, ZHANG; HAIZI WANG (CC, Chen Kaige, 1988)
Summary: The book has a translation of the film King of the Children and an essay by Tony Rayns on Chinese cinema from the 1980s.; A new note for testing on 02 November 2007.
ISBN: 0571154484
Donation: Wayne Levy

Call No: JOURNAL SHELVES. CAHIERS DU CINEMA SPECIAL ISSUES
PubDate: [April 1999]
Subject: CITY OF SADNESS, A [

Call No: 71(512.317) MON
Author: Kwok Ching-ling (ed)
CorpAuthor: Hong Kong Film Archive
Source: Hong Kong
Place: Hong Kong
Publisher: Hong Kong Film Archive
PubDate: 2000
PhysDes: 226 p ; 24 cm
Subject: CITY OF SADNESS, A [
Summary: Eight veterans of the Hong Kong and Chinese film industries telling history as they see it - from the early days of the 30s and 40s cinema on the Mainland to their migration to Hong Kong after the war. [Taken from back cover].
ISBN: 9628050079
Language: Chinese and English

Call No: 71(512.317) MON
Author: Donna Chu; Ho Wai-leng; Angel Shing; Wong Ain-ling; Winnie Fu
CorpAuthor: Hong Kong Film Archive
Source: Hong Kong
Place: Hong Kong
PubDate: 2001
PhysDes: 372 p ; 24 cm
Subject: CITY OF SADNESS, A [; POLITICS AND THE CINEMA. CHINA
Summary: Many in Hong Kong cringe at the word "left". But for a group of filmmakers, there was a time when leftist beliefs represented hope - for the future of China and of humankind. Driven by that hope, they dedicated themselves to their art, enriching our cinema with their talent and passion. Here, they look back at those years with fond memories and sincere assessment, offering a glimpse into a page of film history many have forgotten or neglected. [Taken from back cover].
ISBN: 9628050141
Language: Chinese and English.

Call No: 71(5) MUL
Source: US
Place: Philadelphia PA
Publisher: Temple University Press
PubDate: 2003
PhysDes: 250 p. ; 25 cm
Subject: ASIAN COUNTRIES; GLOBALISATION; CITY OF SADNESS, A [; TAIWAN; JAPAN; KOREA; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. ASIAN COUNTRIES; NATIONAL IDENTITY AND THE CINEMA; GENDER AND THE CINEMA. CHINA; KWOK WAH LAU JENNY
Summary: Multiple Modernities explores the cultural terrain of East Asia. Arguing that becoming modern happens differently in different places, the contributors examine popular culture – most notably cinema and television – to see how modernization, as both a response to the West and a process that is unique in its own right in the region, operates on a mass level. Included in this collection are significant explorations of popular culture in East Asia, including Chinese new cinema and rock music, Korean cinema, and Taiwanese television, as well as discussions of alternative arts in general. While each essay focuses on specific nations or cinemas, the collective effect of reading them is to offer a comprehensive, in-depth picture of how popular culture in East Asia operates to both generate and reflect the immense change this significant region of the world is undergoing. [Taken from back cover.]
ISBN: 1566399866

Call No: P MYS
PhysDes: 1 poster : colour ; 76 x 52 cm
Subject: CITY OF SADNESS, A [; CHINA IN FILMS; TIBET
Summary: Image: A photograph of two women in the foreground, a photograph of a man cutting a carcase amidst a flock of vultures. Higher up the poster, there is a photograph of Buddhist monks sitting on the snow and a photograph of a large monastery or fortress-like structure near the top of the poster. Text roughly translates to: Not suitable for children. Phoenix Film Company Nanhai Film Co. Ltd. jointly filmed in China's Southwest Frontier... Title roughly translates to Mysterious Tibet.
Notes: Major tears in right corners, worn edges, creases, folds.
Language: Chinese

Call No: 71(51) EDE
Author: Eder, Klaus; Rossell, Deac
CorpAuthor: National Film Theatre (London, England)
Place: London
Publisher: National Film Theatre
PubDate: 1993
PhysDes: 132p. : ill
Subject: CITY OF SADNESS, A [
Notes: Cover title; Includes filmographies
ISBN: 0851704425
LON: 11060739

Call No: 71(51) NEW
Author: Browne, Nick
Edition: New ed
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
PubDate: 1995
PhysDes: [275] p. : ill. ; 23 cm
Subject: CITY OF SADNESS, A [; TAIWAN; POLITICS AND THE CINEMA. CHINA; MELODRAMA. CHINA; XIE, JIN; HOU HSIAO-HSIEN; HUANG, JIANXIN; NILOUHE NUER (TZ, Hou Hsiao-Hsien, 1988); CUO WEI (CC, Huang Jianxin, 1987); SI SHUI LIU NIAN (HK/CC, Yim Ho, 1984); TIANYUNSHAN CHUANQI (CC, Xie Jin, 1980); SHENG GANG QI BING (HK, Johnny Mak, 1985); K'UNG-PU FEN-TZU (TZ/HK, Edward Yang [pseud. of Yang Teh-Chang], 1986); LUN HUI (CC, Huang Jianxin, 1989); DO MA DAN (HK, Tsui Hark, 1986); HEI PAO SHI JIAN (CC, Huang Jianxin, 1986); BLACK CANNON INCIDENT, THE (CC, Huang Jianxin, 1986); HIBISCUS TOWN [FU RONG ZHEN] (CC, Xie Jin, 1987)
Notes: I. FILM IN THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC: 1. Spatiality and subjectivity in Xie Jin's film melodrama of the new period -- 2. Society and subjectivity: on the political evonomy of Chinese melodrama -- 3. Huang Jianxin and the notion of postsocialism -- 4. Neither one thing nor another: toward a study of the viewing subject and Chinese cinema of the 1980s -- II. FILM IN TAIWAN AND HONG KONG: 5. Remapping Taipei -- 6. The ideology of initiation: the films of Hou Hsiao-hsien -- 7. The return of the father: Hong Kong new wave and its Chinese context in the 1980s -- 8. Border crossing: mainland China's presence in Hong Kong cinema -- 9. Two films from Hong Kong: parody and allegory
ISBN: 0521448778 (pbk)
LON: 11806054

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: CITY OF SADNESS, A [; HISTORY OF CINEMA; HISTORY OF CINEMA. CHINA; HISTORY OF CINEMA. HONG KONG
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 --

Call No: 71(51) PER
Author: Berry, Chris
Place: London
Publisher: BFI Pub.
PubDate: 1991
PhysDes: vii, 234 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
Subject: CITY OF SADNESS, A [; PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA; TAIWAN; NATIONAL CULTURE IN FILMS; MOVEMENTS AND STYLES IN FILM HISTORY; SOCIAL GROUPS IN FILMS; GENDER AND THE CINEMA; ANIMATED FILMS; ZHUANGZHUANG, TIAN; JUNZHAO, ZHANG; YIGONG, WU; WAN, LAIMING; WAN, GUCHAN; WAN, DIHUAN; WAN, CHAOCHEN; CHUSHENG, CAI; KAIGE, CHEN; HSIAO-HSIEN, HOU; MEI, HU; BAN, LU; DONGSHAN, SHI; HUA, SHUI; YU, SUN; TIANMING, WU; YIGONG, WU; JIN, XIE; YANG, EDWARD; JUNZHAO, ZHANG; YIMOU, ZHANG; JUNLI, ZHENG; LI SHUANG SHUANG (CC, Lu Ren, 1962) SEE LI SHUANGSHUANG; XI YING MEN, (CC, Zhao Huanzhang, 1982); HUANG TUDI (CC, Chen Kaige, 1984); HONG GAOLIANG (CC, Zhang Yimou, 1987)
Notes: First published 1985; Includes bibliographical references, short biographies of major directors, chronology and indexes of names and film titles
ISBN: 0851702716; 0851702724 (pbk.)
LON: 7777062 7777062

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: CITY OF SADNESS, A [; TAIWAN; SINGAPORE; GLOBALISATION
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.

Call No: 409(510) MCG
Author: McGrath, Jason
Source: US
Place: Stanford, California
Publisher: Stanford University Press
PubDate: 2008
PhysDes: xii, 300 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Subject: CITY OF SADNESS, A [; CRITICISM; CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. CHINA; POPULAR CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. CHINA
Summary: "This book examines Chinese culture in the age of market reforms. Beginning in the early 1990s and on into the new century, fields such as literature and film have been fundamentally transformed by the forces of the market as China is integrated ever more closely into the world economic system. As a result, the formerly unified revolutionary culture has been changed into a pluralized state that reflects the diversity of individual experience in the reform era. New autonomous forms of culture that have arisen include avant-garde as well as commercial literature, and independent film as well as a new entertainment cinema. Chinese people find their experiences of postsocialist modernity reflected in all kinds of new cultural products as well as critical debates that often question the direction of Chinese society in the midst of comprehensive and rapid change."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN: 978804758741
Contents: 1. Worlds in Fragments: Culture and the Market Under Postsocialist Modernity -- 2. Ideologies of Popular Culture: The "Humanist Spirit" Debate -- 3. Adaptations and Ruptures: Literature in the New Culture Industry -- 4. The Cinema of Infidelity: Gender, Geography, Economics, and Fantasy -- 5. "Independent" Cinema: From Postsocialist Realism to a Transnational Aesthetic -- 6. New Year's Films: Chinese Entertainment Cinema in a Globalized Cultural Market -- 7. Conclusion: Postsocialist Modernity's Futures.

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; CITY OF SADNESS, A [; CHINA 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

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: CITY OF SADNESS, A [; TRANSNATIONAL CINEMA; TRANSNATIONAL CHINESE CINEMA; HISTORY OF CINEMA; HISTORY OF CINEMA. CHINA; REMAKES
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 --

Call No: 71(512.317) SHA
Author: Wong Ain-ling (ed)
CorpAuthor: Hong Kong Film Archive
Edition: English
Source: Hong Kong
Place: Hong Kong
Publisher: Hong Kong Film Archive
PubDate: 2003
PhysDes: 450 p ; 27 cm
Subject: CITY OF SADNESS, A [; SHAW BROTHERS
Summary: Shaw films are known for their rich doses of fantasy and strong flavour of Chinese culture. The paradoxes and imagination evident in their films were shared by a modern Hong Kong society taking shape throughout the decades. But there's one motif threading their productions - "entertainment first". The book explores the working of film genres, the studio and star systems inside the Shaw film empire and offers a window to re-examining the interaction between films and the time. [Taken from HKIFF webpage].
ISBN: 9628050214

Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE in production; NEST, THE in production
Author: Maddox, Garry
PhysDes: Clippings File Article
Subject: CITY OF SADNESS, A [; COPRODUCTION. AUSTRALIA; COPRODUCTION. CHINA; NEST (AT/CC, Kimble Rendall, 2016)
Summary: Report on the Australian and Chinese co-production THE NEST, to be directed by Kimble Rendall, with discussion on the size of the Chinese box office
Notes: same article published: 'Cinema boom', Sydney Morning Herald, p 18

Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE in production; MONEY PLANE in production
Author: Maddox, Garry
PhysDes: Clippings File Article
Subject: CITY OF SADNESS, A [; COPRODUCTION. AUSTRALIA; COPRODUCTION. CHINA; MONEY PLANE in production
Summary: Report on the Australian and Chinese co-production of MONEY PLANE, to be directed by David Hackl
Notes: same article published: 'Chinese heist film for Australia', Sydney Morning Herald, p 18

Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE; WARCRAFT: THE BEGINNING (CC/CN/US, Duncan Jones, 2016)
Author: Maddox, Garry
PhysDes: Clippings File Article
Subject: CITY OF SADNESS, A [; WARCRAFT: THE BEGINNING (CC/CN/US, Duncan Jones, 2016)
Summary: Report on the success of WARCRAFT: THE BEGINNING in China as compared to its relative failure in the USA

Call No: 802.25 (51) BER
Author: Berry, Michael
Source: US
Place: New York
Publisher: Columbia University Press
PubDate: 2005
PhysDes: x, 568 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Series: Global Chinese culture
Subject: DIRECTORS. CHINA; DIRECTORS.TAIWANESE; DIRECTORS. HONG KONG; CITY OF SADNESS, A [; TAIWAN; CHEN, KAIGE; XIE, JIN; TIAN, ZHUANGZHUANG; ZHANG, YIMOU; ZHANG, YUAN; WANG, XIAOSHUAI; JIA, ZHANG KE; LI, YANG; HOU HSIAO-HSIEN; CHU, TIEN-WEN; YANG, EDWARD; WU, NIEN-JEN; LEE, ANG; TSAI, MING LIANG; CHANG, TSO-CHI; HUI, ANN; KWAN, STANLEY; CHAN, FRUIT; HO-SUN CHAN, PETER; CHAN, EVANS
ISBN: 9780231133319
Contents: Foreword / Martin Scorsese -- Introduction : speaking in images -- Pt. I. Voices from China -- Xie Jin : six decades of cinematic innovation -- Tian Zhuangzhuang : stealing horses and flying kites -- Chen Kaige : historical revolution and cinematic rebellion -- Zhang Yimou : flying colors -- Zhang Yuan : working up a sweat in a celluloid sauna -- Wang Xiaoshuai : banned in China -- Jia Zhangke : capturing a transforming reality -- Li Yang : the future of Chinese cinema? -- Pt. II. Voices from Taiwan -- Hou Hsiao-hsien with Chu T'ien-wen : words and images -- Edward Yang : luckily unlucky -- Wu Nien-jen : writing Taiwan in the shadows of cultural colonialism -- Ang Lee : freedom in film -- Tsai Ming-liang : trapped in the past -- Chang Tso-chi : shooting from the margins -- Pt. III. Voices from Hong Kong -- Ann Hui : living through films -- Stanley Kwan : from spectral nostalgia to corporeal desire -- Fruit Chan : Hong Kong independent -- Peter Ho-sun Chan : pioneering Pan-Asian cinema -- Evans Chan : the last of the Chinese

Call No: 720(5) TAR
Author: Mark Pilkington
PubDate: 2004
PhysDes: 17 cm ; 58 p
Subject: HORROR FILMS. HONG KONG; HORROR FILMS; CITY OF SADNESS, A [; KOREA; JAPAN; TAIWAN; GENRES; THAILAND
Summary: With titles such as Hard Boiled, Kwaidan and Onibaba, Tartan delivered the best and most provocative cinema from the East. But when Ring and Audition were unleashed upon unsuspecting audiences nationwide it became apparent that the appetite for such outrageous fare was massive, and it made sense to let people know where to find it. Thus, Asia Extreme was born. Films such as Battle Royale and Infernal Affairs continue to satisfy the ever increasing hunger for astounding cinematic style and outrageous shock moments, while a swathe of even newer titles – like Oldboy and Koma – wait in the wings for their chance to leave audiences breathless. Now, it seems inconceivable that, once upon a time, Asia Extreme didn’t exist at all. Heres the story of the origin and development of the most exciting and unique of all contemporary genres. [Taken from back cover].

Call No: 709 TRA
Source: UK
Place: Edinburgh
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
PubDate: 2006
PhysDes: 266 p. : 24 cm
Subject: NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA; GLOBALISATION; HISTORY OF CINEMA; MOVEMENTS IN FILM HISTORY; NEOREALISM; NOUVELLE VAGUE; EXPRESSIONISM; CZECHOSLOVAKIA; BRITAIN; DOGMA; COMMUNISM AND THE CINEMA; BRAZIL; ARGENTINA; AFRICA IN FILMS; ISRAEL; IRAN; INDIA; CITY OF SADNESS, A [; MELODRAMA; SONGS IN FILMS; JAPAN; HORROR FILMS; USA
Summary: The core volume in the Traditions in World Cinema series, this book brings together a colourful and wide-ranging collection of world cinematic traditions – national, regional and global – all of which are in need of introduction, investigation and, in some cases, reassessment. Topics include: German expressionism, Italian neorealism, French New Wave, British new wave, Czech new wave, Danish Dogma, post-Communist cinema, Brazilian post-Cinema Novo, new Argentine cinema, pre-revolutionary African traditions, Israeli persecution films, new Iranian cinema, Hindi film songs, Chinese wenyi pian melodrama, Japanese horror, new Hollywood cinema and global found footage cinemas.
ISBN: 0748618635

Call No: 213.13 TRU
Author: Emile Fallaux (ed.); Malu Halasa (ed.); Nupu Press (ed.)
CorpAuthor: International Film Festival Rotterdam
PubDate: 2003
PhysDes: 24 cm ; 164 p + CD
Subject: FINANCING. EUROPEAN COUNTRIES; FINANCING; AESTHETICS; FESTIVALS. ROTTERDAM; THIRD CINEMA; IRAN; MEHRUJUI, DARIUSH; PALESTINE; TURKEY; ARGENTINA; KUREISHI, HANIF; CITY OF SADNESS, A [; INDIA; NETHERLANDS; SOUTH AFRICA; LATIN AMERICAN COUNTRIES; MEXICO; RUSSIA
Summary: World Cinema in the Global Village. Variety in the age of globalization. Hollywood, Bollywood and Hong Kong may produce and export the bulk of the world’s movies but a steady supply of films from other cultures creates real diversity. Filmmakers who work in the context of emerging national cinemas need support to express themselves. For fifteen years, the Hubert Bals Fund of the International Film Festival Rotterdam has been providing that support. And the benefits have been mutual. [Taken from inside book].
Notes: Also contains a CD

Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE; CHINA
Author: Mason, Max
PhysDes: Clippings File Article
Subject: CITY OF SADNESS, A [; WANDA GROUP; WARCRAFT: THE BEGINNING (CC/CN/US, Duncan Jones, 2016)
Summary: Report on the increasing importance of the Chinese market for Hollywood blockbuster films, with mentions of WARCRAFT: THE BEGINNING and STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS

Call No: 71(5)
Place: Frankfurt
Publisher: Frankfurter Bund fur Volksbildung
PubDate: 1963
PhysDes: 44 p. ; illus. ; 30 cm
Subject: SRI LANKA; INDIA; INDONESIA; JAPAN; KOREA; PAKISTAN; USSR; VIETNAM; CITY OF SADNESS, A [
Language: German