Rethinking transnational Chinese cinemas
Subtitle: the Amoy-dialect film industry in Cold War Asia
By: Jeremy E. Taylor
Series: Media, culture and social change in Asia; Media, culture and social change in Asia series
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Abingdon, Oxon; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 171
ISBN-13: 9780415493550; 9780203816073
Subjects: Chinese Motion pictures; Motion picture industry; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Rethinking transnationalism; title: Hokkien heritage; title: Euphoria of the transnational; title: Locating Amoy-dialect films; title: Contextualizing Amoy-dialect cinema; title: Studying Xiayupian; title: Defining Amoy-dialect cinema; title: Third Chinese cinema; title: What makes a film a Xiayupian?; title: When is an Amoy-dialect film not an Amoy-dialect film?; title: Beyond the screen; title: Origins and development; title: Postwar Hokkien world; title: Philippine financing; title: Amoy-dialect film family; title: Shaping of a cinema; title: Popular tales of ancient days; title: Politics of Amoy-dialect cinema; title: Lychees and mirrors; title: Chinese classics and Taiwanese stories; title: Malayan Amoy-dialect realism; title: New Amoy-dialect films; title: Reinventing the industry; title: Eng Wah, Kong Ngee and shaws; title: New Amoy-dialect films; title: Hong Kong is heaven; title: Modern Hokkien songs; title: Suipian Dengtai; title: Cold-war industry; title: Xiayupian and the nationalist state; title: Fraught relationship; title: Monopoly on Hokkien cinema; title: Amoy-dialect patriotism; title: Cinema for non-communist China; title: End of Amoy-dialect cinema; title: 1963, a year of some significance; title: Decline in production; title: Death of an industry; title: Housewives' matinées; title: Impossibility of Xiayupian; title: Conclusion.