'The Authorship of Place' is the first monograph dedicated to the study of the politics, history, aesthetics and practices of location shooting for Taiwanese, Mainland Chinese and coproduced art cinemas shot in rural communities since the late 1970s. Dennis Lo argues that rural …
New Chinese Cinemas analyzes the changing forms and significance of filmmaking in the People's Republic, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, emphasizing the way film commented on the profound social changes that occurred in East Asia in the 1980s. These original essays offer extended analyse…
New Chinese cinemas: forms, identities, politics
New Chinese Cinemas analyzes the changing forms and significance of filmmaking in the People's Republic, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, emphasizing the way film commented on the profound social changes that occurred in East Asia in the 1980s. These original essays offer extended analyse…
"Most Chinese-language textbooks today cater to beginners and intermediate-level students, but virtually none address the unique needs of advanced students seeking to expand or reinforce their language skills in one semester. Readings in Contemporary Chinese Cinema fills this ga…
Ten movies described with a synopsis and critique, includes movie dialogue with exercises, sentence-pattern examples, and extensive vocabulary lists. Suitable for self-study, developing reading skills, and building vocabulary. Summary in vernacular field only.
Rey Chow is arguably one of the most prominent intellectuals working in the humanities today. Characteristically confronting both entrenched and emergent issues in the interlocking fields of literature, film and visual studies, sexuality and gender, postcolonialism, ethnicity, a…