New Chinese Cinemas: Forms, Identities, Politics / Edition 1

by Nick Browne, Paul G. Pickowicz, Vivian Sobchack, Esther Yau

Overview

New Chinese Cinemas analyzes the changing forms and significance of filmmaking in the People's Republic of China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong since the end of the Cultural Revolution, with a particular emphasis on how film comments on the profound social changes that have occurred in East Asia over the past two decades. Considering in detail both conservative and progressive stances on economic modernization, it also demonstrates how film has been an important formal structure and social document in the interpretation of these changes. The essays collected here, which were specially commissioned for this volume, also offer extended analyses of the important trends, styles, and work that define Chinese filmmaking in the 1980s.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521448772
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	02/23/1996
Series:	Forms, Identities, Politics
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	276
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 8.94(h) x 0.79(d)

Table of Contents

List of illustrations; List of contributors; Acknowledgments; Note on the Romanisation of Chinese; Introduction Nick Browne; Part I. Film in the People's Republic: 1. Spatiality and subjectivity in Xie Jin's film melodrama of the new period Ma Ning; 2. Society and subjectivity: on the political economy of Chinese melodrama Nick Browne; 3. Huang Jianxin and the notion of post-socialism Paul G. Pickowicz; 4. Neither one thing nor another? Towards a study of the viewing subject and Chinese cinema in the 1980s Chris Berry; Part II. Film in Taiwan and Hong Kong: 5. Remapping Taipei Fredric Jameson; 6. The Ideology of initiation: the films of Hou Hsiao-hsien William Tay; 7. The return of the father: Hong Kong new wave and its Chinese context in the 1980s Li Cheuk-To; 8. Border crossing: mainland China's presence in Hong Kong cinema Esther Yau; 9. Two films from Hong Kong: parody and allegory Leo Ou-Fan Lee.

Editorial Reviews

"...New Chinese Cinemas...is undoubtedly the best singel-volume publication on contemporary Chinese cinema in English to date." Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars

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