Speaking in Images

Informationen zum Autor Michael Berry is assistant professor of contemporary Chinese cultural studies at the University of California! Santa Barbara. He is the translator of To Live by Yu Hua! Nanjing 1937: A Love Story by Ye Zhaoyan! and Wild Kids: Two Novels about Growing Up by Chang Ta-Chun. Klappentext This is the first collection of interviews with top filmmakers from China! Taiwan! Hong Kong! and the Chinese diaspora. "Speaking in Images" includes conversations with Ang Lee! Zhang Yimou! Chen Kaige! Edward Yang! and Hou Hsiao-hsien! and others. In interviews that capture each filmmaker's unique vision! the subjects offer a history of Chinese cinema over the last thirty years. This volume also includes extensive filmographies and bibliographies of critical works! a comprehensive overview of contemporary Chinese cinema! and a foreword by Martin Scorsese. Zusammenfassung Offers a collection of interviews with the directors who have changed the face of Chinese and international cinema. This book includes discussions with such directors as Ang Lee ("Crouching Tiger"! "Hidden Dragon")! Zhang Yimou ("Hero")! Chen Kaige ("Farewell My Concubine")! Stanley Kwan ("Lan Yu")! and Tsai Ming-Liang ("Vive l'Amour"). Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword by Martin ScorseseAcknowledgmentsAuthor's NoteIntroduction: Speaking in ImagesI. Voices from ChinaXie Jin: Six Decades of Cinematic InnovationTian Zhuangzhuang: Stealing Horses and Flying KitesChen Kaige: Historical Revolution and Cinematic RebellionZhang Yimou: Flying ColorsZhang Yuan: Working up a Sweat in a Celluloid SaunaWang Xiaoshuai: Banned in ChinaJia Zhangke: Capturing a Transforming RealityLi Yang: The Future of Chinese Cinema? II. Voices from TaiwanHou Hsiao-hsien with Chu Tien-wen: Words and ImagesEdward Yang: Luckily UnluckyWu Nien-jen: Writing Taiwan in the Shadows of Cultural ColonialismAng Lee: Freedom in FilmTsai Ming-liang: Trapped in the PastChang Tso-chi: Shooting from the MarginsIII. Voices from Hong KongAnn Hui: Living Through FilmsStanley Kwan: From Spectral Nostalgia to Corporeal DesireFruit Chan: Hong Kong IndependentPeter Ho-sun Chan: Pioneering Pan-Asian CinemaEvans Chan: The Last of the ChineseNotesBibliography ...

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This is the first collection of interviews with top filmmakers from China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and the Chinese diaspora. "Speaking in Images" includes conversations with Ang Lee, Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige, Edward Yang, and Hou Hsiao-hsien, and others. In interviews that capture each filmmaker's unique vision, the subjects offer a history of Chinese cinema over the last thirty years. This volume also includes extensive filmographies and bibliographies of critical works, a comprehensive overview of contemporary Chinese cinema, and a foreword by Martin Scorsese.

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Offers a collection of interviews with the directors who have changed the face of Chinese and international cinema. This book includes discussions with such directors as Ang Lee ("Crouching Tiger", "Hidden Dragon"), Zhang Yimou ("Hero"), Chen Kaige ("Farewell My Concubine"), Stanley Kwan ("Lan Yu"), and Tsai Ming-Liang ("Vive l'Amour").

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Foreword by Martin Scorsese Acknowledgments Author's Note Introduction: Speaking in Images 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? II. Voices from Taiwan Hou Hsiao-hsien with Chu Tien-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 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