China on screen
cinema and nation
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Author
Contributions
- Farquhar, Mary Ann, 1949- - Contributor
Publication
2006 - Columbia University Press, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
78,250 words, Guess
Page Count
313 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL3429191M
- ISBN-100231137060
- OCLC Control Number61353166
- OCLC Control Numberchinaonscreencin0000berr
- Library of Congress Control Number2005053930
and 2 more
- LibraryThing4880179
- Goodreads3801685
Classifications
- DDC791.43/0951
- LCCPN1993.5.C4 B44 2006
Description
"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 Kar-wai, and Ang Lee. They argue for the abandonment of "national cinema" as an analytic tool and propose "cinema and the national" as a more productive framework. With this approach, they show how movies from China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the Chinese diaspora construct and contest different ideas of Chinese nation - as empire, republic, or ethnicity, and complicated by gender, class, style, transnationalism, and more. Among the issues and themes covered are the tension between operatic and realist modes, male and female star images, transnational production and circulation of Chinese films, the image of the good foreigner - all related to different ways of imagining nation. Comprehensive and provocative, China on Screen is a crucial work of film analysis."--Book cover.
Subjects
Series Statement
- Film and culture series
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