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Celluloid China : cinematic encounters with culture and society

Author: Harry H Kuoshu
Publisher: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, ©2002.
Edition/Format:   Book : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Harry H Kuoshu
ISBN: 0809324555 9780809324552 0809324563 9780809324569
OCLC Number: 48851402
Description: xvi, 374 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Overview: The Filmmaking Generations --
pt. 1. History in and out of Melodrama: Glory, Guilt, and Fantasy --
1. Two Stage Sisters (Wutai jiemei, dir. Xie Jin, 1965) --
Director's Notes: "Two Stage Sisters: The Blossoming of a Revolutionary Aesthetic" / Gina Marchetti --
2. Hibiscus Town (Furong zhen, dir. Xie Jin, 1986) --
Director's Notes: "Society and Subjectivity: On the Political Economy of Chinese Melodrama" / Nick Browne --
3. Farewell My Concubine (Bawang bie ji, dir. Chen Kaige, 1993) --
Director's Notes: "The Concubine and the Figure of History: Chen Kaige's Farewell My Concubine" / Wendy Larson --
pt. 2. Speaking for the Other: Changing Allegorical Roles for Women --
4. Street Angel (Malu tianshi, dir. Yuan Muzhi, 1937) --
An Outline for Viewing Street Angel: "The Textual and Critical Difference of Being Radical: Reconstructing Chinese Leftist Films of the 1930s" / Ma Ning --
5. Three Women a.k.a. Women Side by Side (Liren xing, dir. Chen Liting, 1949) --
From "Xin nuxing to Liren xing: Changing Conceptions of the 'New Woman' in Republican Era Chinese Films" / Vivian Shen --
6. Woman, Demon, Human a.k.a. Human, Woman, Demon (Ren gui qing, dir. Huang Shuqin, 1988) --
Director's Notes: "Human, Woman, Demon: A Woman's Predicament" / Dai Jinhua --
7. Ju Dou (dir. Zhang Yimou, 1990) --
Director's Notes: "Ju Dou --
A Hermeneutical Reading of Cross-Cultural Cinema" / Jenny Kwok Wah Lau --
pt. 3. Cinema Exotica: Ethnic Minorities as the PRC's "Internal Other" --
8. Girl from Hunan (Xiangnu Xiaoxiao, dir. Xie Fei, Wu Lan, 1986) --
Director's Notes: "Hsiao-hsiao' and Girl from Hunan: Teaching Chinese Narrative, Not Just Chinese Fiction" / Stephanie Hoare --
9. Sacrificed Youth (Qingchun ji, dir. Zhang Nuanxin, 1985) --
Director's Notes: "Is China the End of Hermeneutics?; or, Political and Cultural Usage of Non-Han Women in Mainland Chinese Films" / Esther C.M. Yau --
10. Horse Thief (Daoma zei, dir. Tian Zhuangzhuang, 1986) --
Director's Notes: "Tian Zhuangzhuang, the Fifth Generation, and Minorities Film in China" / Dru C. Gladney --
pt. 4. The Chinese Western: Roots Hidden in the Yellow Earth --
11. Yellow Earth (Huang tudi, dir. Chen Kaige, 1984) --
Director's Notes: "The 'Hidden' Gender in Yellow Earth" / Mary Ann Farquhar --
12. Old Well (Lao jing, dir. Wu Tianming, 1987) --
Director's Notes: From "Digging an Old Well: The Labor of Social Fantasy" / Rey Chow --
13. Red Sorghum (Hong gaoliang, dir. Zhang Yimou, 1987) --
Director's Notes: "Red Sorghum: Mixing Memory and Desire" / Eugene Yuejin Wang --
pt. 5. New City Films: Beyond-Yellow-Earth Experiences of Postsocialism --
14. Black Cannon Incident (Heipao shijian, dir. Huang Jianxin, 1985) --
Director's Notes: From "Post-Socialist Strategies: An Analysis of Yellow Earth and Black Cannon Incident" / Chris Berry and Mary Ann Farquhar --
15. Good Morning, Beijing (Beijing, nizao, dir. Zhang Nuanxin, 1990) --
Director's Notes: "In Search of the Real City: Cinematic Representations of Beijing and the Politics of Vision" / Xiaobing Tang --
App. 2. Pronouncing Romanized Chinese --
App. 3. Video Purchase and Film Rental Information.
Responsibility: Harry H. Kuoshu.
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