The Chinese cinema book /
edited by Song Hwee Lim and Julian Ward.
- Second edition
- London ; New York : British Film Institute, Bloomsbury ; 2020.
- x, 218 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index. Includes filmography.
Introduction: the Coming of Age of Chinese Cinemas Studies / Song Hwee Lim and Julian Ward ; Territories, Trajectories, Historiographies. Transnational Chinese Cinema Studies / Chris Berry ; National Cinema as Translocal Practice: Reflections on Chinese Film Historiography / Yingjin Zhang ; Cinemas of the Chinese Diaspora / Gina Marchetti ; Six Chinese Cinemas in Search of a Historiography / Song Hwee Lim ; Early Cinema to 1949. Shadow Magic and the Early History of Film Exhibition in China / Xuelei Huang and Zhiwei Xiao ; The Making of a National Cinema: Shanghai Films of the 1930s / Laikwan Pang ; Wartime Cinema: Reconfiguration and Border Navigation / Yiman Wang ; Chinese Film-making on the Eve of the Communist Revolution / Paul G. Pickowicz ; The Forgotten Period: 1949-80. The Remodelling of a National Cinema: Chinese Films of the 17 Years (1949-66) / Julian Ward ; Healthy Realism in Taiwan, 1964-80: Film Style, Cultural Policies, and Mandarin Cinema / Guo-Juin Hong ; The Hong Kong Cantonese Cinema: Emergence, Development and Decline / Stephen Teo ; The New Waves. The Fifth Generation: a Re-assessment / Wendy Larson ; Taiwan New Cinema and Its Legacy / Tonglin Lu ; The Hong Kong New Wave: A Critical Reappraisal / Vivian P. Y. Lee ; Stars, Auteurs and Genres. Dragons Forever: Chinese Martial Arts Stars / Leon Hunt ; The Contemporary Wuxia Revival: Genre Remaking and the Hollywood Transnational Factor / Kenneth Chan ; On the Shoulders of Giants: Tsai Ming-liang, Jia Zhangke, Fruit Chan and the Struggles of Second Generation Auteurism / James Udden ; The Urban Generation: Underground and Independent Films from the PRC / Jason McGrath ; Contemporary Mainstream PRC Cinema / Yomi Braester ; Contemporary Meta Chinese Film Stardom and Transnational Transmedia Celebrity / Anne Ciecko ; Afterword: Liquidity of Being / Rey Chow.