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journal article		Asian Film in Wide Angle (July 1989) vol.11 iss.3 p.[whole issue] Author: Rothschild, Wayne (ed) PhysDes: Article Subject: INDUSTRY, FILM. ASIAN COUNTRIES; INDUSTRY, FILM. JAPAN; INDUSTRY, FILM. ISRAEL; INDUSTRY, FILM. CHINA; INDUSTRY, FILM. HONG KONG Summary: Articles on Asian cinema. 'Reconsidering Modernism: Japanese Film and the Postmodern Context', 'Back to Japan: Militarism and Monumentalism in Prewar Japanese Cinema', 'Accomodation and Resistance: Expression of Working-Class Values Through Tamil Cinema', 'Anomalies of the National: Representing Israel/Palestine', 'Towards a Cultural Understanding of Cinema: A Comparison of Contemporary Films from the People's Republic of China and Hong Kong'. More info
journal article		Breaker sold to China in Australasian Cinema (28/1/1983) vol.12 iss.1 p.1 PhysDes: Article Subject: BREAKER MORANT (AT, Bruce Beresford, 1980); INDUSTRY, FILM. AUSTRALIA; INDUSTRY, FILM. CHINA; DISTRIBUTION; BOX OFFICE Summary: Article on China buying the screening rights of 'Breaker Morant' after the success it has received in America. More info
journal article		China! : Max Keogh interviews Don Kennedy about his recent China trip in Lumiere (January/February, 1974) iss.31 p.4-7 Author: Keogh, Max PhysDes: Article Subject: INDUSTRY, FILM. CHINA; SPECTATORSHIP; ENTERTAINMENT Summary: Interview with Don Kennedy, technical advisor for Film Australia, on his recent trip to China. Kennedy reflects on the Chinese filmmaking and entertainment industries. More info
newspaper article		China loses the force in film market battle in The Australian (21/07/2016) p.25 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 More info
book		China on screen : cinema and nation / Chris Berry New York: Columbia University Press, 2006. 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 More info
journal article		China's cinema today in Australasian Cinema (16/07/1982) vol.11 iss.12 p.12 PhysDes: Article Subject: INDUSTRY, FILM. CHINA; DOCUMENTARY FILMS. AUSTRALIA Summary: Article on China's film industry, their approach to cinema, and what they hope to achieve in the future. More info
newspaper article		China's influence on Hollywood growing in Weekend Australian (16/07/2016) p.34 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 More info
journal article		Chinese Film in Wide Angle (1989) vol.11 iss.2 p.[whole issue] Author: Rothschild, Wayne (ed) PhysDes: Article Subject: INDUSTRY, FILM. CHINA; INDUSTRY, FILM. ASIAN COUNTRIES; WOMEN IN FILMS. CHINA Summary: Issue on Chinese films with articles focusing on the representation of women, cultural identity, and an analysis of Leftist films of the 1930s. More info
journal article		Chinese film archivists in Australia in Australasian Cinema (22/7/1983) vol.12 iss.13 p.1 PhysDes: Article Subject: NATIONAL FILM AND SOUND ARCHIVE; INDUSTRY, FILM. CHINA; INDUSTRY, FILM. AUSTRALIA; PRESERVATION OF FILMS Summary: Article on the success of two Chinese film archivests to Australia. More info
book		Chinese national cinema / Yingjin Zhang New York: Routledge, 2004. Call No: 71(51) ZHA Author: Zhang, Yingjin Source: US Place: New York Publisher: Routledge PubDate: 2004 PhysDes: 328 p. ; ill. ; 24 cm Subject: 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 More info
book		Cinema and cultural identity : reflections on films from Japan, India, and China / edited by Wimal Dissanayake Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1988. Call No: 408.1(5) CIN Author: Dissanayake, Wimal CorpAuthor: Institute of Culture and Communication (East-West Center) Place: Lanham, MD Publisher: University Press of America PubDate: 1988 PhysDes: vii, 214 p. ; 24 cm Subject: INDUSTRY, FILM. ASIAN COUNTRIES; INDUSTRY, FILM. CHINA; INDUSTRY, FILM. JAPAN; INDUSTRY, FILM. INDIA; WOMEN IN FILMS; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. ASIAN COUNTRIES; GENRES; SAMURAI FILMS; RAY, SATYAJIT Notes: "Co-published by arrangement with the East-West Center, Institute of Culture and Communication"--T.p. verso; Includes bibliographies and index ISBN: 0819169455 (alk. paper); 0819169463 (pbk.) LON: 5986435 Contents: PART I. JAPAN -- 1. Viewing Japanese film: some considerations / Donald Richie -- 2. The destiny of Samurai films / Michitaro Tada -- 3. The multilayered nature of the tradition of acting in Japanese cinema / Tadao Sato -- 4. Japanese film genres / Audie Bock -- 5. Change in the image of mother in Japanese cinema and television / Tadao Sato -- PART 2. INDIA -- 6. Innovation and imitation in the Indian cinema / Mira Reym Binford -- 7. Art, vision, and culture: Satiyajit Ray's Apu trilogy revisited / Wimal Dissanayake -- 8. The woman: myth and reality in Indian cinema / Aruna Vasudev -- 9. The painted face of politics: the actor politicians of South India / Chidananda Das Gupta -- 10. Songs in Hindi films: nature and function / Teri Skillman -- PART 3. CHINA -- 11. The Chinese film in the 1980s: art and industry / Ma Qiang -- 12. The sinification of cinema: the foreignness of film in China / Paul Clark -- 13. The position of women in new Chinese cinema / Tony Rayns -- 14. Chinese films amidst the tide of reform / Shao Mujun More info
book		Electric shadows : 45 years of Chinese cinema / by Tony Rayns & Scott Meek London: British Film Institute, 1980. 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 More info
book		Global Chinese cinema : the culture and politics of Hero / edited by Gary D. Rawnsley and Ming-Yeh T. Rawnsley Oxon: Routledge, 2010. 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. More info
newspaper article		The Great Wall in Sydney Morning Herald [Spectrum] (3/10/2015) p.14 Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE; INDUSTRY, FILM. CHINA Author: Byrnes, Paul PhysDes: Clippings File Article Subject: INDUSTRY, FILM. CHINA Summary: An article reporting on the increase of Chinese movie market. More info
newspaper article		Hidden dragon out of the shadows : The Chinese are building another great wall-this time in cinema-and Hollywood is starting to take notice in Canberra Times [Panorama] (3/10/2015) p.19 Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE; INDUSTRY, FILM. CHINA Author: Byrnes, Paul PhysDes: Clippings File Article Subject: INDUSTRY, FILM. CHINA Summary: An article about the rise of the Chinese film market and box office. More info
Online resource digital clippings file		INDUSTRY.FILM.CHINA Digital clippings file available Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE; DIGITAL CLIPPINGS FILE PhysDes: Clippings Subject: INDUSTRY.FILM.CHINA URL status: URL: 'http://file://Q:/S/INDUSTRY.FILM.CHINA.zip' Checked: 31/08/2021 12:59:57 PM Status: Error Details: Failed to send HTTP request (WinHttpSendRequest) More info
newspaper article		Investors buy tickets in China's movie boom in The Australian [Business News] (03/05/2016) p.24 Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE; FINANCING. CHINA Author: Lin, Lilian PhysDes: Clippings File Article Subject: FINANCING. CHINA; INDUSTRY, FILM. CHINA Summary: China's film industry is going through a boom. Movies have become attractive for high risk financial instruments and ample funding has mean an increase in the number of films made. More info
Interim book		Movie blockbusters / edited by Julian Stringer London: Routledge, 2003. Call No: 721.303.311 STR Author: Stinger, Julian (ed.) Source: UK Place: London Publisher: Routledge PubDate: 2003 PhysDes: 276 p. : ill. ; 24 cm Subject: BLOCKBUSTERS; INDUSTRY, FILM. USA; INDUSTRY, FILM. NEW ZEALAND; INDUSTRY, FILM. CHINA; INDUSTRY, FILM. INDIA; INDUSTRY, FILM. KOREA; INDUSTRY, FILM. ARGENTINA; AWARDS. ACADEMY; SPIELBERG, STEVEN; CAMERON, JAMES; JAWS (US, Steven Spielberg, 1975); JAZZ SINGER, THE (US, Alan Crosland, 1927); TEN COMMANDMENTS, THE (US, Cecil B. DeMille, 1956); TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY (US, James Cameron, 1991); TITANIC (US, James Cameron, 1997); CONTACT (US, Robert Zemeckis, 1997); FUGITIVE, THE (US, Andrew Davis, 1993); ONCE WERE WARRIORS (NZ, Lee Tamahori, 1994); STAR WARS (US, George Lucas, 1977) Summary: Big-budget, spectacular films designed to appeal to a mass audience: is this what – or all – blockbusters are? Movie Blockbuster brings together leading film scholars to consider this most high-profile and culturally significant genre. Drawing on a range of critical perspectives, the book traces how and why the ‘even movie’ has played such a large role in popular imagination, tracing a path from the spectacles of the silent era to the effects-laden mega-hits of the digital age. ISBN: 0415256097 More info
book		Primitive passions : visuality, sexuality, ethnography, and contemporary Chinese cinema / Rey Chow New York: Columbia University Press, 1995. Call No: 408.1(51) CHO Author: Chow, Rey Place: New York Publisher: Columbia University Press PubDate: 1995 PhysDes: xiv, 252 p. ; 24 cm Series: Film and culture Subject: INDUSTRY, FILM. CHINA; 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 More info
newspaper article		A reel deal for cultural change in The Australian (5/04/2017) p.14 Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE; INDUSTRY, FILM. CHINA Author: Hoskin, Peter PhysDes: Clippings File Article Subject: INDUSTRY, FILM. CHINA; INDUSTRY, FILM. USA; CULTURAL IMPERIALISM. US; COPRODUCTION. CHINA; COPRODUCTION. USA; DAMON, MATT; GREAT WALL, THE (CC/US, Yimou Zhang, 2016) Summary: The impact of the production and exhibition of the film THE GREAT WALL is examined with a focus on how China's rise as a financial power has affected the way Hollywood makes blockbuster films More info
book		Rethinking transnational Chinese cinemas : the Amoy-dialect film industry in Cold War Asia / Jeremy E. Taylor London ; New York: Routledge, 2011. Call No: 201(51) TAY Author: Taylor, Jeremy E. Place: London ; New York Publisher: Routledge PubDate: 2011 PhysDes: xviii, 171 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Series: Media, culture and social change in Asia Subject: TRANSNATIONAL CHINESE CINEMA; INDUSTRY, FILM. CHINA; INDUSTRY, FILM. HONG KONG Summary: An examination of the Amoy-dialect film industry, its history and scope, its place within Chinese and Asian film history, and its cultural, political and economic significance in the region. Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN: 9780415493550 Contents: -- Rethinking transnationalism -- Defining Amoy-dialect cinema -- Origins and development -- The shaping of a cinema -- The 'new Amoy-dialect films' -- A Cold War industry -- The end of Amoy-dialect cinema -- Conclusion More info

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