China On Screen

Author : Christopher J. Berry,Mary Ann Farquhar
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2006-04-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780231510301

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China on Screen by Christopher J. Berry,Mary Ann Farquhar Pdf

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.

Author : Klaus Mühlhahn,Clemens von Haselberg
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783643902702

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Chinese Identities on Screen by Klaus Mühlhahn,Clemens von Haselberg Pdf

Since 1978, the changes brought on by China's reforms have had an inevitable and significant impact on the development of literature, the arts, and the whole spectrum of culture. As well, contemporary Chinese films have reflected this transition towards commercialization and internationalization, which has included constant changes in cultural policies and the economic conditions for film production. The articles in this collection argue that contemporary Chinese films display a profound shift in identity construction. They explore Chinese identities related to class, nation, and gender, and they highlight aspects of individual identity. All of these are marked by contradiction, tension, multiple versions, changes over time, and other evidence of contingency and construction. The book draws attention to uncertain and unpredictable qualities of "Chineseness" which are often torn between past and present, but are also increasingly comprised of local, national, and global elements. (Series: Chinese History and Society / Berliner China-Hefte - Vol. 40)

Author : W. Somerset Maugham
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-20
Category : Travel
ISBN : EAN:4066339542419

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On a Chinese Screen by W. Somerset Maugham Pdf

"On a Chinese Screen" by W. Somerset Maugham provides readers with a unique perspective on China through a collection of vignettes and observations. Maugham's writing offers a window into Chinese culture, society, and customs as seen through the eyes of the author. This book is an enlightening read for those interested in travel writing and cultural exploration, providing insights into the complexities and nuances of China in the early 20th century.

Author : Wu Hung
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1996-11-22
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781861898425

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The Double Screen by Wu Hung Pdf

In the first exploration of Chinese paintings as both material products and pictorial representations, The Double Screen shows how the collaboration and tension between material form and image gives life to a painting. A Chinese painting is often reduced to the image it bears; its material form is dismissed; its intimate connection with social activities and cultural conventions neglected. A screen occupies a space and divides it, supplies an ideal surface for painting, and has been a favorite pictorial image in Chinese art since antiquity. Wu Hung undertakes a comprehensive analysis of the screen, which can be an object, an art medium, a pictorial motif, or all three at once. With its diverse roles, the screen has provided Chinese painters with endless opportunities to reinvent their art. The Double Screen provides a powerful non-Western perspective on issues from portraiture and pictorial narrative to voyeurism, masquerade, and political rhetoric. It will be invaluable to anyone interested in the history of art and Asian studies.

Author : Paola Voci
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2010-06-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781136960017

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China on Video by Paola Voci Pdf

China On Video is the first in-depth study that examines smaller-screen realities and the important role they play not only in the fast-changing Chinese mediascape, but also more broadly in the practice of experimental and non-mainstream cinema. At the crossroads of several disciplines—film, media, new media, media anthropology, visual arts, contemporary China area studies, and cultural studies--this book reveals the existence of a creative, humorous, but also socially and politically critical "China on video", which locates itself outside of the intellectual discourse surrounding both auteur cinema and digital art. By describing smaller-screen movies, moviemaking and viewing as light realities, Voci points to their "insignificant" weight in terms of production costs, distribution size, profit gains, intellectual or artistic ambitions, but also their deep meaning in defining an alternative way of seeing and understanding the world. The author proposes that lightness is a concept that can usefully be deployed to describe the moving image, beyond the specificity of recent new media developments and which can, in fact, help us rethink previous cinematic practices in broad terms both spatially and temporally.

Author : Chris Berry
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781349922802

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Chinese Films in Focus II by Chris Berry Pdf

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.

Author : Chenshu Zhou
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520974777

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Cinema Off Screen by Chenshu Zhou Pdf

At a time when what it means to watch movies keeps changing, this book offers a case study that rethinks the institutional, ideological, and cultural role of film exhibition, demonstrating that film exhibition can produce meaning in itself apart from the films being shown. Cinema Off Screen advances the idea that cinema takes place off screen as much as on screen by exploring film exhibition in China from the founding of the People’s Republic in 1949 to the end of the Cold War in the early 1990s. Drawing on original archival research, interviews, and audience recollections, Cinema Off Screen decenters the filmic text and offers a study of institutional operations and lived experiences. Chenshu Zhou details how the screening space, media technology, and the human body mediate encounters with cinema in ways that have not been fully recognized, opening new conceptual avenues for rethinking the ever-changing institution of cinema.

Author : Zhang Zhen
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0226982378

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An Amorous History of the Silver Screen by Zhang Zhen Pdf

Illustrating the cultural significance of film and its power as a vehicle for social change, this book reveals the intricacies of the cultural movement and explores its connections to other art forms such as photography, drama, and literature.

Author : W. Somerset Maugham
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781633554443

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On a Chinese Screen by W. Somerset Maugham Pdf

Maugham spent the winter months of 1919-20 travelling 1500 miles up the Yangtze River. Always more interested in people than places, he gave full rein to a sensitive and philosophical nature. On a Chinese Screen is the refined accumulation of the countless scraps of paper on which he had taken notes. Within the narrow confines of their colonial milieu, missionaries, consuls, army officers and company managers are all gently ridiculed as they persist obliviously with the life they know.

Author : Dorothy B. Jones
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : China
ISBN : STANFORD:36105118225551

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The Portrayal of China and India on the American Screen, 1896-1955 by Dorothy B. Jones Pdf

This study of the portrayal of China and India on the American screen is part of an inquiry into American images and ideas about China and India. It reports on the changing content of films shown in America which have dealt with China and India covering a period of approximately sixty years (1896-1955). It attempts to trace the changing portrayal of Chinese and Indian themes, locales, and characters to which American movie and audiences have been exposed throughout this period, and to suggest some of the shifting political and economic pressures which were, in part, responsible for these changes in content. -- Preface.

Author : Paola Voci,Luo Hui
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317209430

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Screening China's Soft Power by Paola Voci,Luo Hui Pdf

Promoting China's cultural soft power by disseminating modern Chinese values is one of the policies of President Xi Jinping. Although, it is usually understood as a top-down initiative, implemented willingly or unwillingly by writers, filmmakers, artists, and so on, and often manifesting itself in clumsy and awkward ways, for example, the concept of "the Chinese dream," intended to rival and perhaps appeal more strongly than "the American dream," modern Chinese values are in fact put forward in many ways by many different cultural actors. Through analyses of film festivals, CCTV, Confucius Institutes, auteurs, blockbusters, reality TV, and online digital cultures, this book exposes the limitations of China's officially promoted soft power in both conception and practice, and proposes a pluralistic approach to understanding Chinese soft power in local, regional, and transnational contexts. As such, the book demonstrates the limitations of existing theories of soft power, and argues that the US-derived concept of soft power can benefit from being examined from a China perspective.

Author : William Somerset Maugham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:73579885

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On a Chinese Screen by William Somerset Maugham Pdf

Author : Hsiu-Chuang Deppman
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2010-04-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780824833732

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Adapted for the Screen by Hsiu-Chuang Deppman Pdf

Hsiu-Chang Deppman puts landmark contemporary Chinese films in the context of their literary origins & explores how the best Chinese directors adapt fictional narratives & styles for film.

Author : Zhen Zhang
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2007-03-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0822340747

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The Urban Generation by Zhen Zhang Pdf

DIVAn anthology that explores film works by the "urban generation,"--filmmakers who operate outside of "mainstream" (officially sanctioned) Chinese cinema -- whose impact has been enormous./div

Author : Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-14
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780472053728

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Early Film Culture in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Republican China by Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh Pdf

A pathbreaking collection of essays on early Chinese-language cinema