Futures of Chinese cinema : technologies and temporalities in Chinese screen cultures /
Khoo, Olivia.
Metzger, Sean,1973-
Bristol : Intellect,
2009.
"With the burgeoning interest in Chinese film, this interdisciplinary collection investigates how new technologies, changing production constraints and shifting viewing practices have shaped perceptions of Chinese screen cultures. Futures of Chinese Cinema contains essays by international scholars considering new directions in Chinese cinema. After the devastation of the economic crisis, the uncertainty of the Hong Kong handover and the events at Tiananmen Square in 1989, the late twentieth century and beyond has seen the emergence of a number of fresh new works from the region's film-makers. For the first time, scholars from film studies, media studies, history and sociology have been brought together in their focus on the concepts of technology and temporality in these films."--P. [4] of cover.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Celebratory screens : Chinese cinema in the new millennium / Dai Jinhua -- Island of no return : cinematic narration as retrospection in Wang Tong and new Taiwan cinema / Guo-Juin Hong -- Socialist geographies, internationalist temporalities and travelling film technologies : Sino-Soviet film exchange in the 1950s and 1960s / Tina Mai Chen -- Hong Kong ghost in the Japanese shell? Cross-racial performance and transnational Chinese cinema / Kwai-Cheung Lo -- Jia Zhangke and the temporality of postsocialist Chinese cinema : in the now (and then) / Chris Berry -- From BitTorrent piracy to creative industries : Hong Kong cinema emptied out / Laikwan Pang -- Genre film, media corporations and the commercialization of the Chinese film industry : the case of 'new year comedies' / Shuyu Kong -- Demand for cultural representation : emerging independent film and video on lesbian desires / Denise Tse Shang Tang -- The queer space of China : expressive desire in Stanley Kwan's Lan Yu / David L. Eng -- Saving Face, or the future perfect of queer Chinese/American cinema? / Sean Metzger -- Remaking the past, interrupting the present : the spaces of technology and futurity in contemporary Chinese blockbusters / Olivia Khoo -- Multiple-screen realities / Paola Voci.
"With the burgeoning interest in Chinese film, this interdisciplinary collection investigates how new technologies, changing production constraints and shifting viewing practices have shaped perceptions of Chinese screen cultures. Futures of Chinese Cinema contains essays by international scholars considering new directions in Chinese cinema. After the devastation of the economic crisis, the uncertainty of the Hong Kong handover and the events at Tiananmen Square in 1989, the late twentieth century and beyond has seen the emergence of a number of fresh new works from the region's film-makers. For the first time, scholars from film studies, media studies, history and sociology have been brought together in their focus on the concepts of technology and temporality in these films."--P. [4] of cover.
Motion pictures
Motion pictures
Motion picture industry