| Author | : Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh |
| Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
| Total Pages | : 365 |
| Release | : 2018-02-14 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 0472053728 |
A pathbreaking collection of essays on early Chinese-language cinema
Early Film Culture in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Republican China
| Author | : Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh |
| Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
| Total Pages | : 365 |
| Release | : 2018-02-14 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 0472123440 |
This volume features new work on cinema in early twentieth-century Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Republican China. Looking beyond relatively well-studied cities like Shanghai, these essays foreground cinema’s relationship with imperialism and colonialism and emphasize the rapid development of cinema as a sociocultural institution. These essays examine where films were screened; how cinema-going as a social activity adapted from and integrated with existing social norms and practices; the extent to which Cantonese opera and other regional performance traditions were models for the development of cinematic conventions; the role foreign films played in the development of cinema as an industry in the Republican era; and much more.
Contemporary Chinese Cinema and Visual Culture
| Author | : Sheldon Lu |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 255 |
| Release | : 2021-07-15 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 1350234192 |
Honourable Mention, Best Monograph Award, BAFTSS Publication Awards 2022 Sheldon Lu's wide-ranging new book investigates how filmmakers and visual artists from mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan have envisioned China as it transitions from a socialist to a globalized capitalist state. It examines how the modern nation has been refashioned and re-imagined in order to keep pace with globalization and transnationalism. At the heart of Lu's analysis is a double movement in the relationship between nation and transnationalism in the Chinese post-socialist state. He considers the complexity of how the Chinese economy is integrated in the global capitalist system while also remaining a repressive body politic with mechanisms of control and surveillance. He explores the interrelations of the local, the national, the subnational, and the global as China repositions itself in the world. Lu considers examples from feature and documentary film, mainstream and marginal cinema, and a variety of visual arts: photography, painting, digital video, architecture, and installation. His close case studies include representations of class, masculinity and sexuality in contemporary Taiwanese and Chinese cinema; the figure of the sex worker as a symbol of modernity and mobility; and artists' representations of Beijing at the time of the 2008 Olympics.
Global Movie Magazine Networks
| Author | : Eric Hoyt |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 424 |
| Release | : 2025-01-07 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 0520402766 |
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. This groundbreaking collection of essays from leading film historians features original research on movie magazines published in China, France, Germany, India, Iran, Latin America, South Korea, the U.S., and beyond. Vital resources for the study of film history and culture, movie magazines are frequently cited as sources, but rarely centered as objects of study. Global Movie Magazine Networks does precisely that, revealing the hybridity, heterogeneity, and connectivity of movie magazines and the important role they play in the intercontinental exchange of information and ideas about cinema. Uniquely, the contributors in this book have developed their critical analysis alongside the collaborative work of building digital resources, facilitating the digitization of more than a dozen of these historic magazines on an open-access basis.
A Dictionary of Film Studies
| Author | : Annette Kuhn |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 576 |
| Release | : 2020-04-28 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 0192568043 |
A Dictionary of Film Studies covers all aspects of its discipline as it is currently taught at undergraduate level. Offering exhaustive and authoritative coverage, this A-Z is written by experts in the field, and covers terms, concepts, debates, and movements in film theory and criticism; national, international, and transnational cinemas; film history, movements, and genres; film industry organizations and practices; and key technical terms and concepts. Since its first publication in 2012, the dictionary has been updated to incorporate over 40 new entries, including computer games and film, disability, ecocinema, identity, portmanteau film, Practice as Research, and film in Vietnam. Moreover, numerous revisions have been made to existing entries to account for developments in the discipline, and changes to film institutions more generally. Indices of films and filmmakers mentioned in the text are included for easy access to relevant entries. The dictionary also has 13 feature articles on popular topics and terms, revised and informative bibliographies for most entries, and more than 100 web links to supplement the text.
Cinema and Urban Culture in Shanghai, 1922-1943
| Author | : Yingjin Zhang |
| Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 396 |
| Release | : 1999 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 9780804735728 |
This volume establishes cinema as a vital force in Shanghai culture, focusing on early Chinese cinema. It surveys the history and historiography of Chinese cinema and examines the development of the various aspects affecting the film culture.
Fiery Cinema
| Author | : Weihong Bao |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2015 |
| Genre | : Motion pictures |
| ISBN | : 9780816681334 |
Introduction -- Resonance. Fiery action: toward an aesthetics of new heroism -- A culture of resonance: hypnotism, wireless cinema, and the invention of intermedial spectatorship -- Transparency. Dances of fire: mediating affective immediacy -- Transparent Shanghai: cinema, architecture, and a left-wing culture of glass -- Agitation. "A vibrating art in the air": the infinite cinema and the media ensemble of propaganda -- Baptism by fire: atmospheric war, agitation, and a tale of three cities.
Chinese Film Classics, 1922–1949
| Author | : Christopher G. Rea |
| Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
| Total Pages | : 454 |
| Release | : 2021-06-01 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 0231547676 |
Winner, 2023 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Chinese Film Classics, 1922–1949 is an essential guide to the first golden age of Chinese cinema. Offering detailed introductions to fourteen films, this study highlights the creative achievements of Chinese filmmakers in the decades leading up to 1949, when the Communists won the civil war and began nationalizing cultural industries. Christopher Rea reveals the uniqueness and complexity of Republican China’s cinematic masterworks, from the comedies and melodramas of the silent era to the talkies and musicals of the 1930s and 1940s. Each chapter appraises the artistry of a single film, highlighting its outstanding formal elements, from cinematography to editing to sound design. Examples include the slapstick gags of Laborer’s Love (1922), Ruan Lingyu’s star turn in Goddess (1934), Zhou Xuan’s mesmerizing performance in Street Angels (1937), Eileen Chang’s urbane comedy of manners Long Live the Missus! (1947), the wartime epic Spring River Flows East (1947), and Fei Mu’s acclaimed work of cinematic lyricism, Spring in a Small Town (1948). Rea shares new insights and archival discoveries about famous films, while explaining their significance in relation to politics, society, and global cinema. Lavishly illustrated and featuring extensive guides to further viewings and readings, Chinese Film Classics, 1922–1949 offers an accessible tour of China’s early contributions to the cinematic arts.
Transnational Chinese Cinemas
| Author | : Sheldon H. Lu |
| Publisher | : University of Hawaii Press |
| Total Pages | : 438 |
| Release | : 1997-10-01 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 9780824818456 |
Zhang Yimou's first film, Red Sorghum, took the Golden Bear Award in 1988 at the Berlin International Film Festival. Since then Chinese films have continued to arrest worldwide attention and capture major film awards, winning an international following that continues to grow. Transnational Chinese Cinemas spans nearly the entire length of twentieth-century Chinese film history. The volume traces the evolution of Chinese national cinema, and demonstrates that gender identity has been central to its formation. Femininity, masculinity and sexuality have been an integral part of the filmic discourses of modernity, nationhood, and history. This volume represents the most comprehensive, wide-ranging, and up-to-date study of China's major cinematic traditions. It is an indispensable source book for modern Chinese and Asian history, politics, literature, and culture.
