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Chinese films in focus II / editged by Chris Berry Basingstoke [England] ; New York: British Film Institute/Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Call No: 71(51) CHIAuthor: Berry, Chris Edition: Second EditionSource: UKPlace: Basingstoke [England] ; New YorkPublisher: British Film Institute/Palgrave MacmillanPubDate: 2008PhysDes: 287 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmSubject: 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 BLURBNotes: Includes list of illustrations and index -- includes lists of Chinese names and Chinese film titlesISBN: 9781844572373Contents: 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
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Chinese national cinema / Yingjin Zhang New York: Routledge, 2004.
Call No: 71(51) ZHAAuthor: Zhang, Yingjin Source: USPlace: New YorkPublisher: RoutledgePubDate: 2004PhysDes: 328 p. ; ill. ; 24 cmSubject: 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: 041517290Contents: 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
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Cinematic landscapes : observations on the visual arts and cinema of China and Japan / edited by Linda C. Ehrlich and David Desser Austin, Tex.: University of Texas Press, 1994.
Call No: 408.3(5) CINAuthor: Ehrlich, Linda C. (Linda Channah), 1952 ; Desser, David Edition: 1st edPlace: Austin, Tex.Publisher: University of Texas PressPubDate: 1994PhysDes: xii, 345 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cmSubject: 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 traditionsNotes: Filmography: p. 323-326; Includes bibliographical references and indexISBN: 0292720866 (alk. paper); 0292720874 (pbk. : alk. paper)LON: 10645466
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Postsocialist Modernity : Chinese cinema, literature, and criticism in the market age / Jason McGrath Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2008.
Call No: 409(510) MCGAuthor: McGrath, Jason Source: USPlace: Stanford, CaliforniaPublisher: Stanford University PressPubDate: 2008PhysDes: xii, 300 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSubject: 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 indexISBN: 978804758741Contents: 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.
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Sinophone cinemas / edited by Audrey Yue and Olivia Khoo London ; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Call No: 408.1-054(=951) SINAuthor: Yue, Audrey (editor) ; Khoo, Olivia (editor) Source: AUPlace: London ; New YorkPublisher: Palgrave MacmillanPubDate: 2014PhysDes: xvi, 231 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmSubject: CHINA IN FILMS ; COPRODUCTION ; COPRODUCTION. AUSTRALIA ; COPRODUCTION. CHINA ; CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. CHINA ; CULTURE AND THE CINEMA ; LANGUAGE AND THE CINEMA ; MASCULINITY IN FILMS ; NATIONAL IDENTITY AND THE CINEMA ; SHORT FILMS ; SINGAPORE ; TAIWAN ; TRANSNATIONAL CHINESE CINEMA ; TRANSNATIONAL CINEMA ; TRANSNATIONALISM AND THE CINEMA ; SHIH, SHU-MEI ; CHILDREN OF THE SILK ROAD, THE (AT/CC/GE, Roger Spottiswoode, 2007) ; CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON (HK, Ang Lee, 2000) ; FLIGHT OF THE RED BALLOON [VOYAGE DU BALLON ROUGE, LE] (FR, Hsiao-hsien Hou, 2008) Summary: "Sinophone Cinemas considers a range of multilingual, multidialect and multi-accented cinemas produced in Chinese-language locations outside mainland China. Showcasing a variety of new and fascinating case studies from Britain, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore and Australia, and canvassing a range of formats including commercial co-productions, short films, documentaries and independent films, the book highlights the contemporary screen cultures of Chinese-language communities situated on the margins of China and Chineseness. It engages new sites of localisation, multilingualism and differences that have emerged in Chinese film studies, ones that are not easily contained by the notion of diaspora. The chapters cover a number of historical periods, geographical locations, and critical and methodological perspectives, such as the political economy of Sinophone film production, distribution, consumption and regulation; cinematic practices of Chinese and non-Chinese language resistance, complicity and transformation; and Sinophone communities as sites of cultural production and visual economies." - BOOK BLURBNotes: Contains list of figures and notes on Chinese names and film titles -- Includes filmography, bibliographic references and indexISBN: 9781137311191Contents: Part 1: Theorising Sinophone cinemas -- Framing Sinophone cinemas / Audrey Yue and Olivia Khoo -- Genealogies of four critical paradigms in Chinese-language film studies / Sheldon H. Lu -- Alter-centring Sinophone cinema / Yiman Wang -- Festivals, censorship and the canon: the making of Sinophone cinemas / Yifen T. Beus -- The voice of the Sinophone / Song Hwee Lim -- Singapore, Sinaphone, nationalism: sounds of language in the films of Tan Pin Pin / Olivia Khoo; Part 2: Contemporary Sinophone cinemas -- Mandarin pop-culture meets Tokyo jazz: gender and popular youth culture in late-1960s Hong Kong musicals / Jennifer Feeley -- Sinophone libidinal economy in the age of neoliberalization and mainlandization: masculinities in Hong Kong SAR and New Wave cinema / Mirana M. Szeto -- Singlish and the Sinophone: non-standard (Chinese/English) languages in recent Singaporean cinema / Alison M. Groppe -- British Chinese short films: challenging the limits of the Sinophone / Felicia Chan and Andy Willis -- Contemporary Sinophone cinema: Australia-China coproductions / Audrey Yue
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