Sinascape

Sinascape: contemporary Chinese cinema

by Xu, Gary G.

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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 Her…

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  • Full title :Sinascape : contemporary Chinese cinema / Gary G. Xu.

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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.

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  • Publication Date:©2007

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Description based upon print version of record.

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  • Description:1 online resource (187 p.)

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:1461642884, 9781461642886
  • oclc:on1303462958
  • LC Classification:PN1993.5.C4
  • Dewey Decimal:791.430951

Table of Contents

Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1 The Right to Copy and the Digital Copyright: Hero, House of Flying Daggers, and China's Cultural Symptoms; Chapter 2 Violence, Sixth Generation Filmmaking, and Devils on the Doorstep; Chapter 3 ""My Camera Doesn't Lie"": Cinematic Realism and Chinese Cityscape in Beijing Bicycle and Suzhou River; Chapter 4 Shaw Brothers' Old Cinema Excavated: From KungFu Hustle to Goodbye, Dragon Inn; Chapter 5 The Smell of the City: Memory and Hou Hsiao-hsien's Millennium Mambo

Chapter 6 Hollywood Hong Kong, Hollywood HongKong, and the Cinematic Mode of ProductionPostscript: Remaking East Asia; Bibliography; Index; About the Author

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Subjects

China Cinéma -- Chine Motion pictures Motion pictures -- China

Writers

Xu, Gary G.

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