China on Screen - Cinema and Nation

Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-0-231-13706-5
Verlag: Columbia University Press

Buch, Englisch, 336 Seiten, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 238 mm, Gewicht: 639 g

Reihe: Film and Culture Series

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Berry, Christopher J.

Farquhar, Mary Ann

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmtheorie, Filmanalyse
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsA Note on Translation and Romanization 1. Introduction: Cinema and the National2. Time and the National: History, Historiology, Haunting3. Operatic Modes: Opera Film, Martial Arts, and Cultural Nationalism4. Realist Modes: Melodrama, modernity, and Home5. How Should A Chinese Woman Look? Woman and Nation6. How Should Chinese Men Act? Ordering the Nation7. Where Do You Draw the Line? Ethnicity in Chinese Cinemas8. The National in the TransnationalChronolgyNotesEuropean Language BibliographyChinese Language BibliographyFilm ListIndex

Über Autor(innen)

Chris Berry is professor of film and television studies at Goldsmiths College, University of London. He is the author or editor of several books, including Postsocialist Cinema in Post-Mao China: The Cultural Revolution after the Cultural Revolution. Mary Farquhar is professor of Asian studies at Griffith University and is the author of numerous articles and the prize-winning book, Children's Literature in China: From Lu Xun to Mao Zedong.