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China on screen : cinema and nation

Author: Chris Berry; Mary Ann Farquhar
Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press, ©2006.
Series: Film and culture.
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"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  Read more...
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Chris Berry; Mary Ann Farquhar
ISBN: 0231137060 9780231137065 0231137079 9780231137072
OCLC Number: 61353166
Description: xi, 313 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Cinema and the national --
Time and the national: history, historiology, haunting --
Operatic modes: opera film, martial arts, and cultural nationalism --
Realist modes: melodrama, modernity, and home --
How should a Chinese woman look? Woman and nation --
How should Chinese men act? Ordering the nation --
Where do you draw the line? Ethnicity in Chinese cinemas --
The national in the transnational.
Series Title: Film and culture.
Responsibility: Chris Berry and Mary Farquhar.

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Exploring several hundred years of Chinese cinema, this book considers how movies from China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the Chinese diaspora reflect changing views of the Chinese nation. Giving fresh  Read more...

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A quite thought-provoking and extensively researched academic study. Wisconsin Bookwatch July 2006 Recommended. Choice 11/1/2006 [ China on Screen] will no doubt remain a standard reference for Read more...

 
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