Companion to Chinese Cinema

A Companion to Chinese Cinema is a collection of original
essays written by experts in a range of disciplines that provide a
comprehensive overview of the evolution and current state of
Chinese cinema.

• Represents the most comprehensive coverage of Chinese cinema to
  date

• Applies a multidisciplinary approach that maps the expanding
  field of Chinese cinema in bold and definitive ways

• Draws attention to previously neglected areas such as diasporic
  filmmaking, independent documentary, film styles and techniques,
  queer aesthetics, star studies, film and other arts or media

• Features several chapters that explore China's new market
  economy, government policy, and industry practice, placing the
  intricate relationship between film and politics in a historical
  and international context

• Includes overviews of Chinese film studies in Chinese and
  English publications

Auteur
Yingjin Zhang is Professor of Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies at University of California, San Diego, and Visiting Chair Professor at Shanghai Jiaotong University, China. He is the author of The City in Modern Chinese Literature and Film (1996), Screening China (2002), Chinese National Cinema (2004), and Cinema, Space, and Polylocality in a Globalizing China (2010); co-author of Encyclopedia of Chinese Film (1998); editor of China in a Polycentric World (1998) and Cinema and Urban Culture in Shanghai, 1922-1943 (1999); and co-editor of From Underground to Independent (2006) and Chinese Film Stars (2010).

Résumé
A Companion to Chinese Cinema is a collection of original essays written by experts in a range of disciplines that provide a comprehensive overview of the evolution and current state of Chinese cinema.

• Represents the most comprehensive coverage of Chinese cinema to date
• Applies a multidisciplinary approach that maps the expanding field of Chinese cinema in bold and definitive ways
• Draws attention to previously neglected areas such as diasporic filmmaking, independent documentary, film styles and techniques, queer aesthetics, star studies, film and other arts or media
• Features several chapters that explore China's new market economy, government policy, and industry practice, placing the intricate relationship between film and politics in a historical and international context
• Includes overviews of Chinese film studies in Chinese and English publications

Contenu

Acknowledgments viii

List of Figures ix

List of Tables xiii

List of Contributors xiv

1 General Introduction 1

Yingjin Zhang

Part I History and Geography 23

2 Transplanting Melodrama: Observations on the Emergence of
Early Chinese Narrative Film 25

Zhang Zhen

3 Artists, Cadres, and Audiences: Chinese Socialist Cinema,
1949-1978 42

Paul Clark

4 Directors, Aesthetics, Genres: Chinese Postsocialist Cinema,
1979-2010 57

Yingjin Zhang

5 Hong Kong Cinema Before 1980 75

Robert Chi

6 The Hong Kong New Wave 95

Gina Marchetti

7 Gender Negotiation in Song Cunshou's Story of
Mother and Taiwan Cinema of the Early 1970s 118

James Wicks

8 Second Coming: The Legacy of Taiwan New Cinema 133

Darrell William Davis

Part II Industry and Institution 151

9 Propaganda and Censorship in Chinese Cinema 153

Matthew D. Johnson

10 Chinese Media Capital in Global Context 179

Michael Curtin

11 Film and Society in China: The Logic of the Market 197

Stanley Rosen

12 Vulnerable Chinese Stars: From Xizi to Film Worker
218

Sabrina Qiong Yu

13 Ports of Entry: Mapping Chinese Cinema's Multiple
Trajectories at International Film Festivals 239

Nikki J. Y. Lee and Julian Stringer

Part III Genre and Representation 263

14 In Search of Chinese Film Style(s) and Technique(s) 265

James Udden

15 Film Genre and Chinese Cinema: A Discourse of Film and Nation
284

Stephen Teo

16 Performing Documentation: Wu Wenguang and the Performative
Turn of New Chinese Documentary 299

Qi Wang

17 Chinese Women's Cinema 318

Lingzhen Wang

18 From Urban Films to Urban Cinema: The Emergence of a Critical
Concept 346

Yomi Braester

Part IV Arts and Media 359

19 The Intertwinement of Chinese Film and Literature: Choices
and Strategies in Adaptations 361

Liyan Qin

20 Diary of a Homecoming: (Dis-)Inhabiting the Theatrical in
Postwar Shanghai Cinema 377

Weihong Bao

21 Cinema and the Visual Arts of China 400

Jerome Silbergeld

22 From Mountain Songs to Silvery Moonlight: Some Notes on Music
in Chinese Cinema 417

Jerome Silbergeld

23 Cross-Fertilization in Chinese Cinema and Television: A
Strategic Turn in Cultural Policy 429

Ying Zhu and Bruce Robinson

24 Chinese Cinema and Technology 449

Gary G. Xu

Part V Issues and Debates 467

25 Chinese Film Scholarship in Chinese 469

Chen Xihe

26 Chinese Film Scholarship in English 484

Chris Berry

27 The Return of the Repressed: Masculinity and Sexuality
Reconsidered 499

Shuqin Cui

28 Homosexuality and Queer Aesthetics 518

Helen Hok-Sze Leung

29 Alter-centering Chinese Cinema: The Diasporic Formation
535

Yiman Wang

30 The Absent American: Figuring the United States in Chinese
Cinema of the Reform Era 552

Michael Berry

Bibliography 575

Filmography 628

Index 655