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Encyclopedia of Chinese Film
by Zhiwei Xiao, Yingjin Zhang. 476 pgs.

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This alphabetically organized volume is the first authoritative, scholarly source on directors, genres, themes, and actors from mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. Including synopses of 300 Chinese films, the entries are heavily cross-referenced, and offer, where possible, annotated suggestions for further reading. Preceding the A-Z entries, an in-depth cultural perspective is provided in a substantial historical section dealing with the main studios and the impact of Chinese film abroad and at home in recent years.

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Contents

Plates

Notes on Contributors

Note to the Reader

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Classified Contents

Part I: Historical Essays

Chinese Cinema

Hong Kong Cinema

Taiwan Cinema

Further Reading

Further Reading

Transnational Cinema: Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan

Chinese Film in the West

Further Reading

Foreign Films in China

Part II: Main Entries

A: Action Film

Further Reading

B: Back to Back, Face to Face

Further Reading

C: Cageman

D: Dan Duyu

E: Early Spring in February

F: Family

G: Game of Death

H: He Jianjun

I: Iceman Cometh

J: Jade Love

Further Reading

K: Killer, The

L: Lai, Stan

Further Reading

M: Ma-Xu Weibang

Further Reading

N: Narrow Street

O: Old Well

P: Pai Ching-Jui

Q: Qin Yi

R: Rainclouds Over Wushan

S: Sacrificed Youth

T: Taipei Story

U: Under the Bridge

V: Visitor on Ice Mountain

W: Wan Jen

X: Xia Gang

Y: Yam, Simon

Z: Zhang Ga, a Boy Soldier

Bibliography

Select Internet Web Sites on Chinese Cinema

Glossary of Chinese Characters

Index of Titles

Index of Names

Index of Studios
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Chinese Film Theory: A Guide to the New Era
by George S. Semsel, Xia Hong, Hou Jianping, Li Xiaohong, Fan Yuan. 228 pgs.

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This is the first collection of translations of Chinese film theory to be published in English. By using translations rather than summaries as other works have done, Chinese Film Theory provides readers with an introduction to the issues current in China's film circles. It includes 18 essays written by a broad range of writers--from well established scholars to young people at the beginnings of their involvement in film in China. This collection indicates a trend away from the study of external qualities of film and toward a study of the film itself.

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CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

FOREWORD

INTRODUCTION

I The Debate on the Theatricality of Film

NOTES

1: THROWING AWAY THE WALKING STICK OF DRAMA

2: THE MODERNIZATION OF FILM LANGUAGE

II The Debate on the Literary Quality of Film

NOTES

3: ESSAY DONE IN FILM TERMS

4: FILM LITERATURE and FILM CHARACTERISTICS: A DISCUSSION WITH ZHANG JUNXIANG

5: DIVERSIFICATION, NOT PRESCRIPTIONS

III The Debate over the New Concept of Film

NOTES

6: FILM IS FILM: A RESPONSE TO TAN PEISHENG

7: MY VIEW OF THE CONCEPT OF FILM

8: ONLY SEVEN YEARS: THOUGHTS ON THE EXPLORATIONS OF MIDDLE-AGED and YOUNG DIRECTORS (1979 to 1986)

IV The Debate on the Nationalization of Film

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9: FILM FORM and FILM'S NATIONAL FORM

10: SUMMARY OF CASUAL THINKING ON FILM AESTHETICS, PART IV

11: A REVIEW OF PART IV OF SHAO MUJUN'S ARTICLE "SUMMARY OF CASUAL THINKING ON FILM AESTHETICS"

12: ON THE PRESENTATION OF NATIONALISM THROUGH FILM

V The Debate on Tradition and Innovation in Film

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13: THE DRAWBACK OF XIE JIN'S MODEL

14: XIE JIN'S ERA SHOULD END

15: THE ROAD OF INNOVATION IN CHINESE CINEMA

16: FILM TRADITION and INNOVATION

17: TO BE A LOYAL ARTIST TO THE PEOPLE

VI Chinese Film Theory in the New Era: A Conclusion

NOTES

18: SHADOWPLAY: CHINESE FILM AESTHETICS and THEIR PHILOSOPHICAL and CULTURAL FUNDAMENTALS

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

ABOUT THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS
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Transnational Chinese Cinemas: Identity, Nationhood, Gender
by Sheldon Hsiao-Peng Lu. 418 pgs.

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List of Illustrations

Preface

Historical Introduction: Chinese Cinemas (1896-1996) and Transnational Film Studies

Part I: Nation-Building, National Cinema, Transnational Cinema

Chapter 2: Two Stage Sisters the Blossoming of a Revolutionary Aesthetic

Chapter 3: From "Minority Film" to "Minority Discourse" Questions of Nationhood and Ethnicity in Chinese Cinema

Chapter 4: National Cinema, Cultural Critique, Transnational Capital the Films of Zhang Yimou

Part II: The Politics of Cultural and National Identity in the Cinemas of Taiwan and Hong Kong

Chapter 5: Constructing a Nation Taiwanese History and the Films of Hou Hsiao-Hsien June Yip

Chapter 6: The Diaspora in Postmodern Taiwan and Hong Kong Film Framing Stan Lai's the Peach Blossom Land with Allen Fong's Ah Ying

Chapter 7: Breaking the Soy Sauce Jar Diaspora and Displacement in the Films of Ang Lee

Chapter 8: Transnational Action John Woo, Hong Kong, Hollywood

Chapter 9: Jackie Chan and the Cultural Dynamics of Global

Part III: Engendering History and Nationhood: Cross-Cultural and Gendered Perspectives

Chapter 10: Reading Formations and Chen Kaige's Farewell My Concubine

Chapter 11: The New Woman Incident Cinema, Scandal, and Spectacle in 1935 Shanghai

Chapter 12: Gendered Perspective the Construction and Representation of Subjectivity and Sexuality in Ju Dou

Chapter 13: The Concubine and the Figure of History Chen Kaige's Farewell My Concubine

Chapter 14: Narrative Images of the Historical Passion Those Other Women -- on the Alterity in the New Wave of Chinese Cinema Yi Zheng

Chinese Glossary Compiled by Sheldon H. Lu and May M. Wang

Filmography

Bibliography

Index
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Chinese Modernism in the Era of Reforms: Cultural Fever, Avant-Garde Fiction, and the New Chinese Cinema
by Xudong Zhang. 434 pgs.

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Preface

Book One: Literary and Cultural Interventions In the New Era

Part 1: Cultural Discourse

Part 2: Literary Discourse

6 Fable of Self-Consciousness:: Ge Fei and Some Motifs in Meta-Fiction

Book Two: Politics of the Visual Encounter: Reading the Fifth Generation

Part 3: The Discourse of Modern Cinema

Part 4: Allegories of the Social Landscape

Part 5: The Politics of the New Cinema

Index
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Speaking in Images: Interviews with Contemporary Chinese Filmmakers
by Michael Berry. 572 pgs.

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Foreword by Martin Scorsese

Acknowledgments

Author's Note

Introduction: Speaking in Images

Part I: Voices from China

Xie Jin: Six Decades of Cinematic Innovation

Tian Zhuangzhuang: Stealing Horses and Flying Kites

Chen Kaige: Historical Revolution and Cinematic Rebellion

Zhang Yimou: Flying Colors

Zhang Yuan: Working Up a Sweat in a Celluloid Sauna

Wang Xiaoshuai: Banned in China

Jia Zhangke: Capturing a Transforming Reality

Li Yang: The Future of Chinese Cinema?

Part II: Voices from Taiwan

Hou Hsiao-Hsien with Chu T'Ien-Wen: Words and Images

Edward Yang: Luckily Unlucky

Wu Nien-Jen: Writing Taiwan in the Shadows of Cultural Colonialism

Ang Lee: Freedom in Film

Tsai Ming-Liang: Trapped in the Past

Chang Tso-Chi: Shooting from the Margins

Part III: Voices from Hong Kong

Ann Hui: Living through Films

Stanley Kwan: From Spectral Nostalgia to Corporeal Desire

Fruit Chan: Hong Kong Independent

Peter Ho-Sun Chan: Pioneering Pan-Asian Cinema

Evans Chan: The Last of the Chinese

Notes

Bibliography
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At Full Speed: Hong Kong Cinema in a Borderless World
by Esther C. M. Yau. 344 pgs.

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Acknowledgments

Introduction: Hong Kong Cinema in a Borderless World

1: An Overview of Hong Kong's New Wave Cinema

2: The Emergence of the Hong Kong New Wave

3: Aesthetics in Action: Kungfu, Gunplay, and Cinematic Expressivity

4: The Killer: Cult Film and Transcultural (Mis)Reading

5: Life Imitates Entertainment: Home and Dislocation in the Films of Jackie Chan

6: Tsui Hark: National Style and Polemic

7: Hong Kong Hysteria: Martial Arts Tales from a Mutating World

8: Women on the Edges of Hong Kong Modernity: The Films of Ann Hui

9: A Souvenir of Love

10: Film and Enigmatization: Nostalgia, Nonsense, and Remembering

11: Transnational Exchanges, Questions of Culture, and Global Cinema: Defining the Dynamics of Changing Relationships

12: Transnationalization of the Local in Hong Kong Cinema of the 1990s

13: The Intimate Spaces of Wong Kar-Wai

Glossary

Selected Bibliography

Contributors

Index
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Golden Harvest Films and the Hong Kong Movie Industry in the Real of Globalization, in Velvet Light Trap
by Steve Fore. 19 pgs.

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The International Movie Industry (Chap. 3 "China")
by Gorham Anders Kindem. 422 pgs.

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This comprehensive history of the international movie industry from its inception in 1895 to the present features nineteen original essays by international scholars who examine the film industries of nineteen countries and six continents. Each chapter in The International Movie Industry focuses on a specific national movie industry's economic and related social, aesthetic, technological, and political/ideological development within an international context during the last century. The result is a global history of the movie industry over the last one hundred years.

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Preface

1: Introduction

2: Japan

3: China

4: India

5: Australia

6: Israel

7: Iran

8: Senegal

9: South Africa

10: Hungary

11: Soviet Union/Russia

12: France

13: Germany

14: Italy

15: Great Britain

16: Sweden

17: Brazil

18: Mexico

19: Canada

20: United States

21: Conclusion

Index
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Handbook of Chinese Popular Culture (Chap. 11 "Film")
by Dingbo Wu, Patrick D. Murphy. 409 pgs.

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Chinese popular culture is extremely diverse and richly complex. The 18 chapters in this reference provide the most comprehensive and current bibliographical and descriptive study of Chinese popular culture in English. Each chapter, written by an expert contributor, provides a thorough survey of research materials and an overview of the most significant points of critical concern. The extensive closing bibliography provides references for topics not treated in the volume.

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Preface

1: Introduction

2: Lifestyles

3: Food

4: Tea Drinking and Its Culture Ione Kramer

5: Religion

6: Chinese Herbal Medicine

7: Sports

8: Taijiquan and Qigong

9: Wushu

10: The Chinese Mass Media

11: Film

12: Traditional Chinese Drama

13: Chinese Gallant Fiction

14: Chinese Science Fiction

15: Comic Art

16: Chinese Calligraphy

17: Popular Rural Architecture

18: Transportation in The People's Republic of China

Selected Bibliography

Index

Contributors
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Chinese Media, Global Contexts (Chap. 12 "The Future of Chinese Cinema: Some Lessons from Hong Kong and Taiwan")
by Chin-Chuan Lee. 278 pgs.

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Virtually every major media, information and telecommunications enterprise in the world is significantly tied to China. This volume provides the most expert, up to date and multidisciplinary analyses on how the contemporary media functions in what has rapidly become the world's biggest market.

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1: Discourses, Market, Technology, and Ideology

2: Neo-Liberal Globalization, the Dream for a Strong Nation, and Chinese Press Discourses on the Wto

References

3: Aspirations and Representations of Beijing's 2008 Olympics

4: Established Pluralism

5: Attitudes Toward Nationalism and Internationalism

6: Political Drama and News Narratives

7: Technologies, Content, Commerce and the Prospects for the Public Sphere

8: A Comparative Analysis of the Newspaper, Tv and Internet Markets in China

9: Shaping Hangzhou's Information Age

10: Bureaucratic Capitalism in the Name of Communism

11: Discursive Practices in China's Media Reforms

12: Some Lessons from Hong Kong and Taiwan

13: Marketing Popular Culture in China

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Political Communications in Greater China: The Construction and Reflection of Identity (Chap. 11 "Directing Hong Kong: The Political Cinema of John Woo and Wong Kar-wai")
by Gary D. Rawnsley, Ming-Yeh T. Rawnsley. 334 pgs.

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This book examines the role played by political communications, including media of all kinds - journalism, television, and film - in defining and shaping identity in Greater China; China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and overseas Chinese. In the context of increasing cross-border interactions of people, investment and commercial products between the component parts of greater China, the book explores the idea that identity, rather than nation-states or political entities, may be the key factor in achieving further integration in Greater China. The book focuses on the ways in which identity is communicated, and shows how communication of identity within and between the component parts of greater China plays a central role in bringing about integration.

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1: Introduction

2: The Meaning and Significance of Greater China

Part I: The People's Republic of China

3: Peddling Party Ideology for a Profit

4: Modern Political Communication in China

5: What Chinese Journalists Believe About Journalism

Part II: Taiwan

6: As Edifying as a Bout of Mud Wrestling

7: Gender and Party Politics

8: Communication of Identities in Taiwan

References

Part III: Hong Kong

9: The Media in Hong Kong

10: Media Economics of the Hong Kong Press in Political Transition

References

11: Directing Hong Kong

Part IV: The Overseas Chinese

12: Is There a British Chinese Public Sphere?

13: Children, Media and the Public Sphere in Chinese Australia

14: Talking About Jet LI

15: Greater China, Globalisation and Emancipation

Notes

Index
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The Oxford History of World Cinema ("China before 1949" begins on p. 409, and "China after the Revolution" begins on p. 693)
by Geoffrey Nowell-Smith. 824 pgs.

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From its humble beginnings as a novelty in a handful of cities, cinema has risen to become a billion-dollar industry and the most spectacular and original contemporary art form. In The Oxford History of World Cinema, an international team of film historians traces the history of this enduringly popular entertainment medium. Covering all aspects of its development, stars, studios, and cultural impact, the book celebrates and chronicles over one hundred years of diverse achievement from westerns to the New Wave, from animation to the avant-garde, and from Hollywood to Hong Kong. The Oxford History of World Cinema tells the story of the major inventions and developments in the cinema business, its institutions, genres, and personnel, and they outline the evolution of national cinemas round the world--the varied and distinctive film traditions that have developed alongside Hollywood. A unique aspect of the book are the special inset features on the film-makers and personalities--Garbo and Godard, Keaton and Kurosawa, Bugs Bunny and Bergman--who have had an enduring impact in popular memory and cinematic lore. With over 280 illustrations, a full bibliography, and an extensive index, this is the buff's ultimate guide to cinema worldwide.

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Acknowledgements

Contributors

Contents

Special Features

List of Colour Illustrations

General Introduction

1: Silent Cinema 1895-1930

Introduction

Origins and Survival

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Early Cinema

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Transitional Cinema

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The Hollywood Studio System

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The World-Wide Spread of Cinema

The First World War and the Crisis in Europe

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Tricks and Animation

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Comedy

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Documentary

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Cinema and the Avant-Garde

Serials

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French Silent Cinema

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Italy: Spectacle and Melodrama

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British Cinema from Hepworth to Hitchcock

Germany: the Weimar Years

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The Scandinavian Style

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Pre-Revolutionary Russia

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The Soviet Union and the Russian émigrés

Yiddish Cinema in Europe

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Japan: Before the Great Kanto Earthquake

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Music and the Silent Film

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The Heyday of the Silents

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2: Sound Cinema 1930-1960

Introduction

The Introduction of Sound

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Hollywood: the Triumph of the Studio System

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Censorship and Self-Regulation

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The Sound of Music

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Technology and Innovation

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Animation

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Cinema and Genre

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The Western

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The Musical

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Crime Movies

The Fantastic

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Documentary

Socialism, Fascism, and Democracy

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The Popular Art of French Cinema

Italy from Fascism to Neo-Realism

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Britain at the End of Empire

Germany: Nazism and After

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East Central Europe Before the Second World War

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Soviet Film Under Stalin

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Indian Cinema: Origins to Independence

China Before 1949

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The Classical Cinema in Japan

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The Emergence of Australian Film

Cinema in Latin America

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After the War

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Transformation of the Hollywood System

Independents and Mavericks

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3: The Modern Cinema 1960-1995

Introduction

Television and the Film Industry

The New Hollywood

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New Technologies

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Sex and Sensation

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The Black Presence in American Cinema

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Exploitation and the Mainstream

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Dreams and Nightmares in the Hollywood Blockbuster

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CinÉma-VÉritÉ and the New Documentary

Avant-Garde Film: the Second Wave

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Animation in the Post-Industrial Era

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Modern Film Music

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Art Cinema

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New Directions in French Cinema

Italy: Auteurs and After

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Spain After Franco

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British Cinema: the Search for Identity

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The New German Cinema

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East Germany: the Defa Story

Changing States in East Central Europe

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Russia After the Thaw

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Cinema in the Soviet Republics

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Turkish Cinema

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The Arab World

The Cinemas of Sub-Saharan Africa

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Iranian Cinema

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India: Filming the Nation

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Indonesian Cinema

China After the Revolution

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Popular Cinema in Hong Kong

Taiwanese New Cinema

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The Modernization of Japanese Film

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New Australian Cinema

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New Zealand Cinema

Canadian Cinema/Cinéma Canadien

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New Cinemas in Latin America

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New Concepts of Cinema

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The Resurgence of Cinema

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Index

List of Picture Sources
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Hong Kong Popular Culture as an Interpretive Arena: The Huang Feihong Film Series, in Screen
by Hector Rodriguez. 24 pgs.

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Crouching Sensibility, Hidden Sense, in Film Criticism
by William Leung. 15 pgs.

Journal Article
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Rethinking Cross-Cultural Analysis: The Questions of Authority, Power, and Difference in Western Studies of Chinese Films, in Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars
by Zhang Yingjin. 11 pgs.

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A History of Narrative Film (Chap. 18 "Wind from the East: Japan, India, and China")
by David A. Cook. 1087 pgs.

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A History of Narrative Film

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Preface

Preface to the Third Edition

Acknowledgments

A Note on Method

A Note on Supplementary Material

A Note on Dates, Titles, and Stills

1: Origins

2: International Expansion, 1907-1918

3: D. W. Griffith and the Development of Narrative Form

4: German Cinema of the Weimar Period, 1919-1929

5: Soviet Silent Cinema and the Theory of Montage, 1917-1931

6: Hollywood in the Twenties

7: The Coming of Sound and Color, 1926-1935

8: The Sound Film and the American Studio System

9: Europe in the Thirties

10: Orson Welles and the Modern Sound Film

11: Wartime and Postwar Cinema: Italy and the United States, 1940-1951

12: Hollywood, 1952-1965

13: The French New Wave and Its Native Context

14: New Cinemas in Britain and the English-Speaking Commonwealth

15: European Renaissance: West

16: European Renaissance: East

17: The Former Soviet Union, 1945-Present

18: Wind from the East: Japan, India, and China

19: Third World Cinema

20: Hollywood, 1965—present

Glossary

Selective Bibliography for the Third Edition

Index

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