Title: Semiotics of exile in contemporary Chinese film /
Authors: Zeng, Hong.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan,
Year: 2012
Subjects: Emigration and immigration in motion pictures.; Displacement (Psychology) in motion pictures.; Symbolism in motion pictures.; Motion pictures China; Motion pictures Taiwan; ART Film & Video.; PERFORMING ARTS Film & Video Reference.; Displacement (Psychology) in motion pictures; Emigration and immigration in motion pictures; Motion pictures; Symbolism in motion pictures
Abstract: Examines film form as a language that generates meaning through film codes, demonstrating that the motif of exile is not only a crucial characteristic of mainland China in its postsocialist, postmodern era and age of globalization, but also a defining frame for Taiwan and Hong Kong with their colonialist pasts.
Contents: Introduction -- Semiotics of photography and exile -- Postmodernism and semiotics of exile -- Female doubling and postcolonial exile -- Semiotics of exile and genre upsetting: Xin Jin's subversion of melodrama in "Hibiscus town" -- Failure of root-searching in Cheng Kaige -- Semiotics of exile and displaced film codes: Jia Zhangke's three films -- Conclusion.