Transnational Chinese Theatres

Author : Sheldon H. Lu
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1997-10-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0824818458

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Transnational Chinese Cinemas by Sheldon H. Lu Pdf

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.

Author : Rossella Ferrari
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Chinese drama
ISBN : 303037274X

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Transnational Chinese Theatres by Rossella Ferrari Pdf

Author : Yongchun Fu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429953774

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The Early Transnational Chinese Cinema Industry by Yongchun Fu Pdf

Based on extensive original research, including in studio archives, industrial surveys, official records, trade journals, and English and Chinese newspapers, this book explores the role of the American film industry in the development of cinema in China. It examines the Chinese industry’s response to the American industry and the consequences of this response. It also considers the attitudes of Chinese film practitioners towards Hollywood and the contribution of those figures who acted as intermediaries between the two industries. Overall, the book casts much new light on the early development of the film industry in China and demonstrates the huge influence Hollywood had on it.

Author : Rossella Ferrari
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783030372736

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Transnational Chinese Theatres by Rossella Ferrari Pdf

This is the first systematic study of networks of performance collaboration in the contemporary Chinese-speaking world and of their interactions with the artistic communities of the wider East Asian region. It investigates the aesthetics and politics of collaboration to propose a new transnational model for the analysis of Sinophone theatre cultures and to foreground the mobility and relationality of intercultural performance in East Asia. The research draws on extensive fieldwork, interviews with practitioners, and direct observation of performances, rehearsals, and festivals in Asia and Europe. It offers provocative close readings and discourse analysis of an extensive corpus of hitherto untapped sources, including unreleased video materials and unpublished scripts, production notes, and archival documentation.

Author : Sheldon H. Lu
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1997-10-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780824865290

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Transnational Chinese Cinemas by Sheldon H. Lu Pdf

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.

Author : Lingzhen Wang
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2011-08-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780231527446

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Chinese Women’s Cinema by Lingzhen Wang Pdf

The first of its kind in English, this collection explores twenty one well established and lesser known female filmmakers from mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the Chinese diaspora. Sixteen scholars illuminate these filmmakers' negotiations of local and global politics, cinematic representation, and issues of gender and sexuality, covering works from the 1920s to the present. Writing from the disciplines of Asian, women's, film, and auteur studies, contributors reclaim the work of Esther Eng, Tang Shu Shuen, Dong Kena, and Sylvia Chang, among others, who have transformed Chinese cinematic modernity. Chinese Women's Cinema is a unique, transcultural, interdisciplinary conversation on authorship, feminist cinema, transnational gender, and cinematic agency and representation. Lingzhen Wang's comprehensive introduction recounts the history and limitations of established feminist film theory, particularly its relationship with female cinematic authorship and agency. She also reviews critiques of classical feminist film theory, along with recent developments in feminist practice, altogether remapping feminist film discourse within transnational and interdisciplinary contexts. Wang's subsequent redefinition of women's cinema, and brief history of women's cinematic practices in modern China, encourage the reader to reposition gender and cinema within a transnational feminist configuration, such that power and knowledge are reexamined among and across cultures and nation-states.

Author : Brian Bergen-Aurand,Mary Mazzilli,Hee Wai-Siam
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-26
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781626430112

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Transnational Chinese Cinema by Brian Bergen-Aurand,Mary Mazzilli,Hee Wai-Siam Pdf

This collection of essays on transnational Chinese cinema explores the corporal, psychological, and affective aspects of experiencing bodies on screen; engages with the material and discursive elements of embodiment; and highlights the dynamics between the mind and body involved in bio-cultural practices of cinematic production, distribution, exhibition, and reception.

Author : Yongchun Fu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429953781

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The Early Transnational Chinese Cinema Industry by Yongchun Fu Pdf

Based on extensive original research, including in studio archives, industrial surveys, official records, trade journals, and English and Chinese newspapers, this book explores the role of the American film industry in the development of cinema in China. It examines the Chinese industry’s response to the American industry and the consequences of this response. It also considers the attitudes of Chinese film practitioners towards Hollywood and the contribution of those figures who acted as intermediaries between the two industries. Overall, the book casts much new light on the early development of the film industry in China and demonstrates the huge influence Hollywood had on it.

Author : Kenneth Chan
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789622090569

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Remade in Hollywood by Kenneth Chan Pdf

This book describes how notions of Chinese identity, culture, and popular film genres have been reinvented and repackaged by major U.S. studios, spurring a surge in Chinese visibility in Hollywood.

Author : Gary G. Xu
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0742554503

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Sinascape by Gary G. Xu Pdf

Sinascape: Contemporary Chinese Cinema is a comprehensive study of Chinese-language films at the turn of the millennium. Emphasizing the transnational nature of contemporary Chinese cinema, it provides close readings of most of the important films of China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and explores the interactions and transactions among these films and between Chinese cinema and Hollywood. General readers, film enthusiasts, and critics will all benefit from Gary Xu's discussion of popular films like Hero, House of Flying Daggers, Kung Fu Hustle, Devils on the Doorstep, Suzhou River, Beijing Bicycle, Millennium Mambo, Goodbye Dragon Inn, and Hollywood Hong Kong.

Author : Song Hwee Lim,Julian Ward
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781911239543

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The Chinese Cinema Book by Song Hwee Lim,Julian Ward Pdf

This revised and updated new edition provides a comprehensive introduction to the history of cinema in mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, as well as to disaporic and transnational Chinese film-making, from the beginnings of cinema to the present day. Chapters by leading international scholars are grouped in thematic sections addressing key historical periods, film movements, genres, stars and auteurs, and the industrial and technological contexts of cinema in Greater China.

Author : V. Lee
Publisher : Springer
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2011-04-12
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780230307186

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East Asian Cinemas by V. Lee Pdf

This book is an original volume of essays that sheds new and critical light on current and emerging filmmaking trends and practices in China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan and South Korea. A timely and important contribution to existing scholarship in the field.

Author : Jeremy E. Taylor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000155143

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Rethinking Transnational Chinese Cinemas by Jeremy E. Taylor Pdf

The Amoy-dialect film industry emerged in the 1950s, producing cheap, b-grade films in Hong Kong for direct export to the theatres of Manila Chinatown, southern Taiwan and Singapore. Films made in Amoy dialect - a dialect of Chinese - reflected a particular period in the history of the Chinese diaspora, and have been little studied due to their ambiguous place within the wider realm of Chinese and East Asian film history. This book represents the first full length, critical study of the origin, significant rise and rapid decline of the Amoy-dialect film industry. Rather than examining the industry for its own sake, however, this book focuses on its broader cultural, political and economic significance in the region. It questions many of the assumptions currently made about the ‘recentness’ of transnationalism in Chinese cultural production, particularly when addressing Chinese cinema in the Cold War years, as well as the prominence given to ‘the nation’ and ‘transnationalism’ in studies of Chinese cinemas and of the Chinese Diaspora. By examining a cinema that did not fit many of the scholarly models of ‘transnationalism’, that was not grounded in any particular national tradition of filmmaking and that was largely unconcerned with ‘nation-building’ in post-war Southeast Asia, this book challenges the ways in which the history of Chinese cinemas has been studied in the recent past.

Author : Lisa Funnell,Man-Fung Yip
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-19
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781317910251

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American and Chinese-Language Cinemas by Lisa Funnell,Man-Fung Yip Pdf

Critics frequently describe the influence of "America," through Hollywood and other cultural industries, as a form of cultural imperialism. This unidirectional model of interaction does not address, however, the counter-flows of Chinese-language films into the American film market or the influence of Chinese filmmakers, film stars, and aesthetics in Hollywood. The aim of this collection is to (re)consider the complex dynamics of transnational cultural flows between American and Chinese-language film industries. The goal is to bring a more historical perspective to the subject, focusing as much on the Hollywood influence on early Shanghai or postwar Hong Kong films as on the intensifying flows between American and Chinese-language cinemas in recent decades. Contributors emphasize the processes of appropriation and reception involved in transnational cultural practices, examining film production, distribution, and reception.

Author : Lisa Funnell
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-19
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781438452500

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Warrior Women by Lisa Funnell Pdf

Finalist for the 2014 ForeWord IndieFab Book of the Year Award in the Women's Studies Category Bronze Medalist, 2015 Independent Publisher Book Awards in the Women Issues Category Winnerof the 2015 Emily Toth Award presented by the Popular Culture Association & American Culture Association Warrior Women considers the significance of Chinese female action stars in martial arts films produced across a range of national and transnational contexts. Lisa Funnell examines the impact of the 1997 transfer of Hong Kong from British to Chinese rule on the representation of Chinese identities—Hong Kong Chinese, mainland Chinese, Chinese American, Chinese Canadian—in action films produced domestically in Hong Kong and, increasingly, in cooperation with mainland China and Hollywood. Hong Kong cinema has offered space for the development of transnational Chinese screen identities that challenge the racial stereotypes historically associated with the Asian female body in the West. The ethnic/national differentiation of transnational Chinese female stars—such as Pei Pei Cheng, Charlene Choi, Gong Li, Lucy Liu, Shu Qi, Michelle Yeoh, and Zhang Ziyi—is considered part of the ongoing negotiation of social, cultural, and geopolitical identities in the Chinese-speaking world.