Sinascape: contemporary Chinese cinema
by Xu, Gary G.
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.
Summary
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.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
- Place of Publication:Lanham
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2007.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (xii, 175 p. :) : il.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781461642886, 1461642884
- oclc:on1105431692
- Dewey Decimal:791.430951
Table of Contents
The right to copy and the digital copyright : Hero, House of Flying Daggers, and China's cultural symptoms -- Violence, sixth generation filmmaking, and Devils on the Doorstep -- "My camera doesn't lie" : cinematic realism and Chinese cityscape in Beijing Bicycle and Suzhou River -- Shaw brothers' old cinema excavated : from Kung Fu Hustle to Goodbye, Dragon Inn -- The smell of the city : memory and Hou Hsiao-Hsien's Millennium Mambo -- Hollywood Hong Kong, Hollywood Hong Kong, and the cinematic mode of production -- Postscript : remaking East Asia.
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