Basingstoke [England] ; New York: British Film Institute/Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
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
