Title: Rethinking transnational Chinese cinemas : the Amoy-dialect film industry in Cold War Asia /
Authors: Taylor, Jeremy E., 1973-
Publisher: Routledge,
Year: 2011
Subjects: Filmwirtschaft.; Film.; Motion pictures, Chinese China Hong Kong.; Motion pictures, Chinese Southeast Asia.; Motion picture industry China Hong Kong History; Motion picture industry Southeast Asia History; Südostasien.; Süd-Min-Sprache.; Hongkong.
Contents: Rethinking transnationalism -- Hokkien heritage -- Euphoria of the transnational -- Locating Amoy-dialect films -- Contextualizing Amoy-dialect cinema -- Studying Xiayupian -- Defining Amoy-dialect cinema -- Third Chinese cinema -- What makes a film a Xiayupian? -- When is an Amoy-dialect film not an Amoy-dialect film? -- Beyond the screen -- Origins and development -- Postwar Hokkien world -- Philippine financing -- Amoy-dialect film family -- Shaping of a cinema -- Popular tales of ancient days -- Politics of Amoy-dialect cinema -- Lychees and mirrors -- Chinese classics and Taiwanese stories -- Malayan Amoy-dialect realism -- New Amoy-dialect films -- Reinventing the industry -- Eng Wah, Kong Ngee and shaws -- New Amoy-dialect films -- Hong Kong is heaven -- Modern Hokkien songs -- Suipian Dengtai -- Cold-war industry -- Xiayupian and the nationalist state -- Fraught relationship -- Monopoly on Hokkien cinema -- Amoy-dialect patriotism -- Cinema for non-communist China -- End of Amoy-dialect cinema -- 1963, a year of some significance -- Decline in production -- Death of an industry -- Housewives' matinées -- Impossibility of Xiayupian -- Conclusion.