A companion to Chinese cinema
By: edited by Yingjin Zhang
Series: Wiley-Blackwell companions to national cinemas
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Malden
Language: eng
Number of pages: 684
ISBN-13: 9781444330298
Subjects: Motion pictures
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes filmography.
Table of contents: title: General introduction / Yingjin Zhang; title: History and geography. Transplanting melodrama: observations on the emergence of early Chinese narrative film / Zhang Zhen; title: Artists, cadres and audiences: Chinese Socialist cinema, 1949-1978 / Paul Clark; title: Directors, aesthetics, genres: Chinese postsocialist cinema, 1979-2010 / Yingjin Zhang; title: Hong Kong cinema before 1980 / Robert Chi; title: The Hong Kong new wave  / Gina Marchetti; title: Gender negotiation in Song Cunshou's Story of mother and Taiwan cinema of the early 1970s / James Wicks; title: Second coming: the legacy of Taiwan New cinema / Darrell William Davis; title: Industry and Institution. Propaganda and censorship in Chinese cinema / Matthew D. Johnson; title: Chinese media capital in global context / Michael Curtin; title: Film and society in China: the logic of the market / Stanley Rosen; title: Vulnerable Chinese stars: from Xizi to Film Worker / Sabrina Qiong Yu; title: Ports of entry: mapping Chinese cinema's multiple trajectories at international film festivals / Nikki J. Y. Lee and Julian Stringer; title: Genre and representation. In search of Chinese film style(s) and technique(s) / James Udden; title: Film genre and Chinese cinema: a discourse of film and nation / Stephen Teo; title: Performing documentation: Wu Wenguang and the performative turn of new Chinese documentary / Qi Wang; title: Chinese women's cinema / Lingzhen Wang; title: From urban films to urban cinema: the emergence of a critical concept / Yomi Braester; title: Arts and media. The intertwinement of Chinese film and literature: choices and strategies in adaptations / Liyan Qin; title: Diary of a homecoming: (dis-)inhabiting the theatrical in postwar Shanghai cinema / Weihong Bao; title: Cinema and the visual arts of China / Jerome Silbergeld; title: From mountain songs to silvery moonlight: some notes on music in Chinese cinema / Jerome Silbergeld; title: Cross-fertilization in Chinese cinema and television: a strategic turn in cultural policy / Ying Zhu and Bruce Robinson; title: Chinese cinema and technology / Gary G. Xu; title: Issues and debates. Chinese film scholarship in Chinese / Chen Xihe; title: Chinese film scholarship in English / Chris Berry; title: The return of the repressed: masculinity and sexuality reconsidered / Shuqin Cui; title: Homosexuality and queer aesthetics / Helen Hok-Sze Leung; title: Alter-centering Chinese cinema: the diasporic formation / Yiman Wang; title: The absent American: figuring the United States in Chinese cinema of the Reform Era / Michael Berry.