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1.

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

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

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...
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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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Transnational Chinese Cinemas: Identity, Nationhood, Gender » Read Now
by Sheldon Hsiao-Peng Lu. 418 pgs.

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...Transnational Chinese Cinemas Ju Dou Gong Li Tianqing Li...British Film Institute. Transnational Chinese Cinemas Identity, Nationhood, Gender...Cataloging-in-Publication...
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Chinese Modernism in the Era of Reforms: Cultural Fever, Avant-Garde Fiction, and the New Chinese Cinema » Read Now
by Xudong Zhang. 434 pgs.

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...GARDE FICTION, AND THE NEW CHINESE CINEMA XUDONG ZHANG DUKE UNIVERSITY...In Book 2 I explore the New Chinese Cinema, commonly referred to as the...radical engagement in...
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Golden Harvest Films and the Hong Kong Movie Industry in the Real of Globalization, in Velvet Light Trap » Read Now
by Steve Fore. 19 pgs.

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...unapologetically polyglot in their cinematic and cultural influences...movies to traditional Chinese melodrama. But analogous...twenty years ago, Chinese cinema meant three...
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The International Movie Industry (Chap. 3 "China") » Read Now
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...
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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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Handbook of Chinese Popular Culture (Chap. 11 "Film") » Read Now
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...
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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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Chinese Media, Global Contexts (Chap. 12 "The Future of Chinese Cinema: Some Lessons from Hong Kong and Taiwan") » Read Now
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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Women Reading Chinese Films: Between Orientalism and Silence, in Screen » Read Now
by Stephanie Donald. 16 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

...crisis The 1980s new wave in Chinese cinema moved away from socialist realism...the viewing subject and the Chinese cinema in the 1980s", in Browne...Sobchack, Yau (eds)...
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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") » Read Now
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...
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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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The Oxford History of World Cinema ("China before 1949" begins on p. 409, and "China after the Revolution" begins on p. 693) » Read Now
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...
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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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Hong Kong Popular Culture as an Interpretive Arena: The Huang Feihong Film Series, in Screen » Read Now
by Hector Rodriguez. 24 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

...themes. Hus disparagement of Chinese cinema recalls the feelings of inferiority...series was not only to rejuvenate Chinese cinema by combining a heightened...
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Crouching Sensibility, Hidden Sense, in Film Criticism » Read Now
by William Leung. 15 pgs.

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...Bordwell on the history of wuxia cinema also accompanies the production...pioneering works of mainland Chinese writers during the 1930s and...See Hu Wen-bins Dictionary of...
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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 » Read Now
by Zhang Yingjin. 11 pgs.

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...were team teaching a seminar on the history of Chinese cinema. Since then Chinese cinema (or contemporary Chinese film, as its usually...Western film theory in addressing...
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A History of Narrative Film (Chap. 18 "Wind from the East: Japan, India, and China") » Read Now
by David A. Cook. 1087 pgs.

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