Chinese Films in Focus II
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Chinese Films in Focus II

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Chinese Films in Focus II

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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 Focus: 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. 

The essays, by leading authorities on Chinese cinema as well as up-and-coming scholars, are concise, accessible, rich, and on the cutting edge of current research. Each contributor outlines existing writing and presents an original perspective on the film, making this volume a rich resource for classroom use, scholarly research and general reading for anyone wanting to understand more about the historical development and rich variety of Chinese cinema.

Contributors: Annette Aw, Chris Berry, Yomi Braester, Felicia Chan, Esther Cheung, Robert Chi, Rey Chow, Mary Farquhar, Carolyn FitzGerald, Ping Fu, Kristine Harris, Margaret Hillenbrand, Brian Hu, Tan See Kam, Haiyan Lee, Vivian Lee, Helen Hok-Sze Leung, David Leiwei Li, Song Hwee Lim, Kam Louie, Fran Martin, Jason McGrath, Corrado Neri, Jonathan Noble, Beremoce Reynaud, Cui Shuqin, Julian Stringer, Janice Tong, Yiman Wang, Faye Hui Xiao, Gang Gary Xu, Audrey Yue, Yingjin Zhang, John Zou

The Editor:  Chris Berry is Professor of Film and Television at Goldsmiths, University of London.

Information

Publisher
British Film Institute
Year
2017
Print ISBN
9781844572366
eBook ISBN
9781349922802
Edition
2
Topic
Media & Performing Arts
Subtopic
Film History & Criticism

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Notes on Contributors
  6. Introduction: One Film at a Time – Again
  7. 1. 15: The Singapore Failure Story, ‘Slanged Up’
  8. 2. Big Shot’s Funeral: Performing a Post-modern Cinema of Attractions
  9. 3. Black Cannon Incident: Countering the Counter-espionage Fantasy
  10. 4. Blind Shaft: Performing the ‘Underground’ on and beyond the Screen
  11. 5. Boat People: Second Thoughts on Text and Context
  12. 6. Centre Stage: A Shadow in Reverse
  13. 7. A Chinese Ghost Story: Ghostly Counsel and Innocent Man
  14. 8. Chungking Express: Time and its Displacements
  15. 9. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Cultural Migrancy and Translatability
  16. 10. Crows and Sparrows: Allegory on a Historical Threshold
  17. 11. Durian Durian: Defamiliarisation of the ‘Real’
  18. 12. Ermo: (Tele) Visualising Urban/Rural Transformation
  19. 13. Farewell My Concubine: National Myth and City Memories
  20. 14. Flowers of Shanghai: Visualising Ellipses and (Colonial) Absence
  21. 15. Formula 17: Mainstream in the Margins
  22. 16. The Goddess: Fallen Woman of Shanghai
  23. 17. Hero: The Return of a Traditional Masculine Ideal in China
  24. 18. In the Mood for Love: Intersections of Hong Kong Modernity
  25. 19. Kekexili: Mountain Patrol: Moral Dilemma and a Man with a Camera
  26. 20. The Love Eterne: Almost a (Heterosexual) Love Story
  27. 21. Not One Less: The Fable of a Migration
  28. 22. The Personals: Backward Glances, Knowing Looks and the Voyeur Film
  29. 23. PTU: Re-mapping the Cosmopolitan Crime Zone
  30. 24. The Red Detachment of Women: Resenting, Regendering, Remembering
  31. 25. Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles: Redeeming the Father by Way of Japan?
  32. 26. Spring in a Small Town: Gazing at Ruins
  33. 27. A Time to Live, A Time to Die: A Time to Grow
  34. 28. A Touch of Zen: Action in Martial Arts Movies
  35. 29. Vive L’Amour: Eloquent Emptiness
  36. 30. Wedding Banquet: A Family (Melodrama) Affair
  37. 31. Woman, Demon, Human: The Spectral Journey Home
  38. 32. Xiao Wu: Watching Time Go By
  39. 33. Yellow Earth: Hesitant Apprenticeship and Bitter Agency
  40. 34. Yi Yi: Reflections on Reflexive Modernity in Taiwan
  41. Chinese Names
  42. Chinese Film Titles
  43. Index

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