Chinese Identities on Screen

Chinese Identities on Screen
Title Chinese Identities on Screen PDF eBook
Author Klaus Mühlhahn
Publisher LIT Verlag Münster
Pages 163
Release 2012
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 3643902700

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Since 1978, the changes brought on by China's reforms have had an inevitable and significant impact on the development of literature, the arts, and the whole spectrum of culture. As well, contemporary Chinese films have reflected this transition towards commercialization and internationalization, which has included constant changes in cultural policies and the economic conditions for film production. The articles in this collection argue that contemporary Chinese films display a profound shift in identity construction. They explore Chinese identities related to class, nation, and gender, and they highlight aspects of individual identity. All of these are marked by contradiction, tension, multiple versions, changes over time, and other evidence of contingency and construction. The book draws attention to uncertain and unpredictable qualities of "Chineseness" which are often torn between past and present, but are also increasingly comprised of local, national, and global elements. (Series: Chinese History and Society / Berliner China-Hefte - Vol. 40)

Transnational Chinese Cinemas

Transnational Chinese Cinemas
Title Transnational Chinese Cinemas PDF eBook
Author Sheldon H. Lu
Publisher University of Hawaii Press
Pages 438
Release 1997-10-01
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 9780824818456

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Zhang Yimou's first film, Red Sorghum, took the Golden Bear Award in 1988 at the Berlin International Film Festival. Since then Chinese films have continued to arrest worldwide attention and capture major film awards, winning an international following that continues to grow. Transnational Chinese Cinemas spans nearly the entire length of twentieth-century Chinese film history. The volume traces the evolution of Chinese national cinema, and demonstrates that gender identity has been central to its formation. Femininity, masculinity and sexuality have been an integral part of the filmic discourses of modernity, nationhood, and history. This volume represents the most comprehensive, wide-ranging, and up-to-date study of China's major cinematic traditions. It is an indispensable source book for modern Chinese and Asian history, politics, literature, and culture.

The Chinese Diaspora on American Screens

The Chinese Diaspora on American Screens
Title The Chinese Diaspora on American Screens PDF eBook
Author Gina Marchetti
Publisher
Pages 242
Release 2012
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 9781592135189

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A look at Chinese filmmaking in the post-1989 American diaspora

Asian America Through the Lens

Asian America Through the Lens
Title Asian America Through the Lens PDF eBook
Author Jun Xing
Publisher Rowman Altamira
Pages 252
Release 1998
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 9780761991762

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In Asian America Through the Lens, Jun Xing surveys Asian American cinema, allowing its aesthetic, cultural, and political diversity and continuities to emerge.

The Cinema of Hong Kong

The Cinema of Hong Kong
Title The Cinema of Hong Kong PDF eBook
Author Poshek Fu
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 356
Release 2002-03-25
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 9780521776028

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This volume examines Hong Kong cinema in transnational, historical, and artistic contexts.

The Cinema of Ang Lee

The Cinema of Ang Lee
Title The Cinema of Ang Lee PDF eBook
Author Whitney Crothers Dilley
Publisher Columbia University Press
Pages 245
Release 2014-12-23
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 0231538499

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Born in Taiwan, Ang Lee is one of cinema's most versatile and daring directors. His ability to cut across cultural, national, and sexual boundaries has given him recognition in all corners of the world, the ability to work with complete artistic freedom whether inside or outside of Hollywood, and two Academy Awards for Best Director. He has won astounding critical acclaim for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000), which transformed the status of martial arts films across the globe, Brokeback Mountain (2005), which challenged the reception and presentation of homosexuality in mainstream cinema, and Life of Pi (2012), Lee's first use of groundbreaking 3D technology and his first foray into complex spiritual themes. In this volume, the only full-length study of Lee's work, Whitney Crothers Dilley analyzes all of his career to date: Lee's early Chinese trilogy films (including The Wedding Banquet, 1993, and Eat Drink Man Woman, 1994), period drama (Sense and Sensibility, 1995), martial arts (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, 2000), blockbusters (Hulk, 2003), and intimate portraits of wartime psychology, from the Confederate side of the Civil War (Ride with the Devil, 1999) to Japanese-occupied Shanghai (Lust/Caution, 2007). Dilley examines Lee's favored themes such as father/son relationships and intergenerational conflict in The Ice Storm (1997) and Taking Woodstock (2009). By looking at the beginnings of Lee's career, Dilley positions the filmmaker's work within the roots of the Taiwan New Cinema movement, as well as the larger context of world cinema. Using suggestive readings of both gender and identity, this new study not only provides a valuable academic resource but also an enjoyable read that uncovers the enormous appeal of this acclaimed director.

Warrior Women

Warrior Women
Title Warrior Women PDF eBook
Author Lisa Funnell
Publisher State University of New York Press
Pages 296
Release 2014-05-19
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 1438452500

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Finalist for the 2014 ForeWord IndieFab Book of the Year Award in the Women's Studies Category Bronze Medalist, 2015 Independent Publisher Book Awards in the Women Issues Category Winnerof the 2015 Emily Toth Award presented by the Popular Culture Association & American Culture Association Warrior Women considers the significance of Chinese female action stars in martial arts films produced across a range of national and transnational contexts. Lisa Funnell examines the impact of the 1997 transfer of Hong Kong from British to Chinese rule on the representation of Chinese identities—Hong Kong Chinese, mainland Chinese, Chinese American, Chinese Canadian—in action films produced domestically in Hong Kong and, increasingly, in cooperation with mainland China and Hollywood. Hong Kong cinema has offered space for the development of transnational Chinese screen identities that challenge the racial stereotypes historically associated with the Asian female body in the West. The ethnic/national differentiation of transnational Chinese female stars—such as Pei Pei Cheng, Charlene Choi, Gong Li, Lucy Liu, Shu Qi, Michelle Yeoh, and Zhang Ziyi—is considered part of the ongoing negotiation of social, cultural, and geopolitical identities in the Chinese-speaking world.