China On Screen: Cinema And Nation (film And Culture Series)

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In China on Screen, Chris Berry and Mary Farquhar, leaders in the field of Chinese film studies, explore more than one hundred years of Chinese cinema and nation. Providing new perspectives on key movements, themes, and filmmakers, Berry and Farquhar analyze the films of a variety of directors and actors, including Chen Kaige, Zhang Yimou, Hou Hsiao Hsien, Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, Maggie Cheung, Gong Li, Wong Kar-wai, and Ang Lee. They argue for the abandonment of "national cinema" as an analytic tool and propose "cinema and the national" as a more productive framework. With this approach, they show how movies from China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the Chinese diaspora construct and contest different ideas of Chinese nation -- as empire, republic, or ethnicity, and complicated by gender, class, style, transnationalism, and more. Among the issues and themes covered are the tension between operatic and realist modes, male and female star images, transnational production and circulation of Chinese films, the image of the good foreigner -- all related to different ways of imagining nation. Comprehensive and provocative, China on Screen is a crucial work of film analysis. (11/1/2006)

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China on Screen cinema and nation film and culture series: john belton, general editor Film and Culture: A series of Columbia University Press edited by John Belton What Made Pistachio Nuts? Early Sound Comedy and the Vaudeville Aesthetic henry jenkins Sound Technology and the American Cinema: Perception, Representation, Modernity james lastra Showstoppers: Busby Berkeley and the Tradition of Spectacle martin rubin Melodrama and Modernity: Early Sensational Cinema and Its Contexts ben singer Projections of War: Hollywood, American Culture, and World War II thomas doherty Wondrous Difference: Cinema, Anthropology, and Turn-of-the-Century Visual Culture alison griffiths Laughing Screaming: Modern Hollywood Horror and Comedy william paul Laughing Hysterically: American Screen Comedy of the 1950s ed sikov Primitive Passions: Visuality, Sexuality, Ethnography, and Contemporary Chinese Cinema rey chow The Cinema of Max Ophuls: Magisterial Vision and the Figure of Woman susan m. white Black Women as Cultural Readers jacqueline bobo Picturing Japaneseness: Monumental Style, National Identity, Japanese Film darrell william davis Attack of the Leading Ladies: Gender, Sexuality, and Spectatorship in Classic Horror Cinema rhona j. berenstein This Mad Masquerade: Stardom and Masculinity in the Jazz Age gaylyn studlar Sexual Politics and Narrative Film: Hollywood and Beyond Robin Wood The Sounds of Commerce: Marketing Popular Film Music jeff smith Orson Welles, Shakespeare, and Popular Culture michael anderegg Pre-Code Hollywood: Sex, Immorality, and Insurrection in American Cinema, 1930–1934 thomas doherty Hearst Over Hollywood: Power, Passion, and Propaganda in the Movies louis pizzitola Masculine Interests: Homoerotics in Hollywood Film robert lang Special Effects: Still in Search of Wonder michele pierson Designing Women: Cinema, Art Deco, and the Female Form lucy fischer Cold War, Cool Medium: Television, McCarthyism, and American Culture thomas doherty Katharine Hepburn: Star as Feminist andrew britton Silent Film Sound rick altman Home in Hollywood: The Imaginary Geography of Hollywood elisabeth bronfen Hollywood and the Culture Elite: How the Movies Became American peter decherney Taiwan Film Directors: A Treasure Island emilie yueh-yu yeh and darrell william davis Shocking Representation: Historical Trauma, National Cinema, and the Modern Horror Film adam lowenstein Chris Berry and Mary Farquhar China on Screen cinema and nation columbia university press / new york Columbia University Press Publishers
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