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The Asian cinema experience : styles, spaces, theory Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; New York: Routledge, 2013.
Call No: 756(5) TEOAuthor: Teo, Stephen Source: UKPlace: Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; New YorkPublisher: RoutledgePubDate: 2013PhysDes: xv, 269 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cmSeries: Media, culture and social change in Asia ; 30Subject: 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 BLURBNotes: Includes bibliographic references and index; Includes filmographyISBN: 9781138815780Contents: 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.
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The Asian film industry / John A. Lent Bromley: Christopher Helm, 1990.
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The Cathay story / Wong Ain-ling (ed) Hong Kong: Hong Kong Film Archive, 2002.
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A century of Chinese cinema : look back in glory / edited by Po Fung...[et al.] Hong Kong: Leisure and Cultural Services Department, 2001.
Call No: 71(51) CENCorpAuthor: Hong Kong Film ArchiveSource: HKPlace: Hong KongPublisher: Leisure and Cultural Services DepartmentPubDate: 2001PhysDes: 56 p. : b&w ill. ; 25 cmSubject: 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.htmlISBN: 9628050117
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China on screen : cinema and nation / Chris Berry New York: Columbia University Press, 2006.
Call No: 71(51) BERAuthor: Berry, Chris Place: New YorkPublisher: Columbia University PressPubDate: 2006PhysDes: xi, 313 p. ; 23 cmSeries: Film and CultureSubject: 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: 0231137079Contents: 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
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Chinese connections : critical perspectives on film, identity, and diaspora / edited by Tan See-Kam, Peter X Feng, and Gina Marchetti Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2009.
Call No: 71(51) CHISource: USPlace: PhiladelphiaPublisher: Temple University PressPubDate: 2009PhysDes: vii, 311 p. : ill. ; 23 cmSubject: CITY OF SADNESS, A [ ; TAIWAN ISBN: 9781592132683Donation: donated by Senses of Cinema, 2012Contents: 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
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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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Circuit listening : Chinese popular music in the global 1960s / Andrew F. Jones Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2020.
Call No: 751.0 (5) JONAuthor: Jones, Andrew F. Edition: 2020Place: MinneapolisPublisher: University of Minnesota PressPubDate: 2020PhysDes: ix, 274 pages : illustratedSubject: 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 siteISBN: 9781517902070Contents: 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
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Colonialism and nationalism in Asian cinema / edited by Wimal Dissanayake Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994.
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Colonialism and nationalism in Asian cinema / edited by Wimal Dissanayake Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994.
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Contemporary Asian cinema : popular culture in a global frame / edited by Anne Teresa Ciecko Oxford: Berg, 2006.
Call No: 71(5) CONSource: UKPlace: OxfordPublisher: BergPubDate: 2006PhysDes: vi, 250 p. ; 24 cmSeries: Asian CinemaSubject: 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: 1845202376ISSN: 17448719Contents: -- 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.
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Divided lenses : screen memories of war in East Asia / edited by Michael Berry and Chiho Sawada Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2016.
Call No: 737(5-012) DIVSource: USPlace: HonoluluPublisher: University of Hawai'i PressPubDate: 2016PhysDes: viii, 331 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmSubject: WAR AND THE CINEMA ; WAR FILMS ; WORLD WAR II AND THE CINEMA ; WORLD WAR II FILMS ; WORLD WAR II FILMS. JAPAN ; WORLD WAR II FILMS. USA ; WORLD WAR II FILMS. CHINA ; KOREAN WAR FILMS ; SECOND SINO-JAPANESE WAR FILMS ; TAIWAN ; MANGA ; VIDEO GAMES ; COMPUTER GAMES ; NATIONALISM AND THE CINEMA ; ETHNIC GROUPS IN FILMS ; [TWO THOUSAND AND NINE] 2009: LOST MEMORIES [2009 IOSEUTEU MAEMORIJEU] (KO, Si-myung Lee, 2002) ; BAMBOO HOUSE OF DOLLS [NU JIZHONGYING] (HK, Kuei Chih-Hung, 1973) ; CHILDREN OF HUANG SHI, THE (AT/CC/GE, Roger Spottiswoode, 2007) ; FRIENDS (JP/KO, 2002) ; SCARLET ROSE: THE GODDESSES OF JINLING [XUESE MEIGUI: JINLING NUSHEN] [TV](CC, Yu Liqing, 2007) Summary: Exploring how the years of 1931-1953 have been recreated and negotiated in cinema. This period saw conflicts such as the Sino-Japanese War, the Pacific War, and the Korean War and events such as the Rape of Nanjing, Pearl harbor, the Battle of Iwo Jima, and the bomibings of Hiroshina and Nagasaki. The films relating to the experiences of the countries China, Japan, Taiwan, Korea, and other Far East countries, as well as the United States of America are examined. - partially taken from coverNotes: Formerly CIP. -- Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-305), filmography, television and video game lists (pages 281-290) and indexISBN: 9780824851514Donation: donated by Senses of CinemaContents: Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Divided Lenses / Michael Berry -- Part I : screen histories of war in East Asia -- War, history, and remembrance in Chinese cinema / Yingjin Zhang -- Of female spies and national heroes : a brief history of anti-Japanese films in Taiwan from the 1950s to the 1970s / Wenchi Lin -- The "division blockbuster" in South Korea: the evolution of cinematic representations of war and division / Hyangjin Lee -- Under the flag of the rising sun: imagining and reimagining the Pacific war in the Japanese cinema / David Desser -- Japanese manga and anime on the Asia-Pacific war experience / Kyu Hyun Kim -- Continuity and change in Hollywood's representations of American-Asian relations in war and peace / Robert Brent Toplin -- Part II : reading war trauma -- Oscillating histories : representations of comfort women from Bamboo House of Dolls to Imperial Comfort Women / Lily Wong -- Shooting the enemy : photographic attachment in The Children of Huang Shi and Scarlet Rose / Michael Berry -- War and nationalism in recent Japanese cinema : Yamato, trauma, and forgetting the postwar / Aaron Gerow -- The promise and limits of "pop culture diplomacy" in East Asia : contexts-texts-reception / Chiho Sawada -- History and its alternatives : war games as social form / Eric Hayot
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Encyclopedia of Chinese film / Zhiwei Xiao / Yingjin Zhang London
New York: Routledge, 1998.
Call No: 71(51) ENCAuthor: Yingjin Zhang ; Zhiwei Xiao Place: London
New YorkPublisher: RoutledgePubDate: 1998PhysDes: 465 p. ; 25 cmSubject: 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
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Fight and flight : the wuxia film in Chinese cinema / Stephen Teo
Call No: 736.35 TEOAuthor: Teo, Stephen PhysDes: 262 p ; 29 cmSubject: 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
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Framing piracy : Globalization and film distribution in Greater China / Shujen Wang Rowman and Littlefield, 2003.
Call No: 30(51) WANPublisher: Rowman and LittlefieldPubDate: 2003PhysDes: 234 cm ; 23 cmSubject: 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
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Multiple modernities : cinemas and popular media in transcultural East Asia / Jenny Kwok Wah Lau (ed.) Philadelphia PA: Temple University Press, 2003.
Call No: 71(5) MULSource: USPlace: Philadelphia PAPublisher: Temple University PressPubDate: 2003PhysDes: 250 p. ; 25 cmSubject: 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
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New Chinese cinemas : forms, identities, politics / edited by Nick Browne,etc Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Call No: 71(51) NEWAuthor: Browne, Nick Edition: New edPublisher: Cambridge University PressPubDate: 1995PhysDes: [275] p. : ill. ; 23 cmSubject: 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 allegoryISBN: 0521448778 (pbk)LON: 11806054
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Perspectives on Chinese cinema / edited by Chris Berry London: BFI Pub., 1991.
Call No: 71(51) PERAuthor: Berry, Chris Place: LondonPublisher: BFI Pub.PubDate: 1991PhysDes: vii, 234 p. : ill. ; 23 cmSubject: 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)
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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 titlesISBN: 0851702716; 0851702724 (pbk.)LON: 7777062 7777062
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Playing to the world's biggest audience : the globalization of Chinese film and tv / Michael Curtin Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 2007.
Call No: 203(51) CURAuthor: Curtin, Michael Source: USPlace: Berkeley, CaliforniaPublisher: University of California PressPubDate: 2007PhysDes: x, 341 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSubject: CITY OF SADNESS, A [ ; TAIWAN ; SINGAPORE ; GLOBALISATION Notes: Formerly CIP; Includes bibliographical references and indexISBN: 9780520251342Contents: 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.
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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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Speaking in images : interviews with contemporary Chinese filmmakers / Michael Berry New York: Columbia University Press, 2005.
Call No: 802.25 (51) BERAuthor: Berry, Michael Source: USPlace: New YorkPublisher: Columbia University PressPubDate: 2005PhysDes: x, 568 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSeries: Global Chinese cultureSubject: 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: 9780231133319Contents: 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
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The Tartan guide to Asia extreme : An introduction to the astonishing world of cinema from the far east / Mark Pilkington / Jule Hartung (ed.) 2004.
Call No: 720(5) TARAuthor: Mark Pilkington PubDate: 2004PhysDes: 17 cm ; 58 pSubject: 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].
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Theorising national cinema / Valentina Vitali and Paul Willemen (eds) London: British Film Institute, London, 2006.
Call No: 408.1 THEAuthor: Vitali, Valentina ; Willemen, Paul CorpAuthor: BFISource: UKPlace: LondonPublisher: British Film Institute, LondonPubDate: 2006PhysDes: 326 p. ill. : 24 cmSubject: ASIAN COUNTRIES ; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA ; JAPAN ; KOREA ; REPUBLIC OF IRELAND ; LATIN AMERICAN COUNTRIES ; KRACAUER, SIEGFRIED ; BURCH, NOEL ; RUSSIA ; FRANCE ; TAIWAN ; PALESTINE ; ARAB COUNTRIES ; INDIA ; ASIAN COUNTRIES ; EUROPEAN COUNTRIES ; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA ; NATIONAL CULTURE IN FILMS ; NATIONAL IDENTITY AND THE CINEMA ; NATIONAL IDENTITY IN FILMS ; GLOBALISATION Summary: Why do we think of clusters of films as a 'national cinema'? Why has the relationship between the nation and film become so widely and uncritically accepted? Theorising National Cinema is a major contribution to work on national cinemas, by many of the leading scholars in the filed. It addresses the knotty and complex relationships between cinema and national identity, showing that the nationality of a cinema production company, and of the films it made, have not always been seen as pertinent. The volume begins by reviewing and rethinking the concept of national cinema in an age of globalisation, and it goes on to chart the parallel developments of national film industries and the idea of the nation state in countries as diverse as Japan, South Korea, Russia, France and Italy. The issue of a 'national cinema' for nation states of contested status, with disputed borders or displaced peoples, is discussed in relation to film-making in Taiwan, Ireland and Palestine. The contributors also consider the future of national cinema in an age of transnational cultural flows, exploring issues of national identity and cinema in Latin America, Asia, the Middle-East, India, Africa and Europe.ISBN: 1844571203
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