Sinophone cinemas
By: Edited by Audrey Yue, The University of Melbourne, Australia and  Olivia Khoo, Monash University, Australia
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
ISBN-13: 9781137311191
Subjects: Motion pictures; Motion picture producers and directors; Chinese Motion pictures; PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / General; PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies
Description: "Sinophone Cinemas considers a range of multilingual, multidialect and multi-accented cinemas produced in Chinese-language locations outside mainland China. Showcasing a variety of new and fascinating case studies from Britain, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore and Australia, and canvassing a range of formats including commercial co-productions, short films, documentaries and independent films, the book highlights the contemporary screen cultures of Chinese-language communities situated on the margins of China and Chineseness. It engages new sites of localisation, multilingualism, and difference that have emerged in Chinese film studies, ones that are not easily contained by the notion of diaspora. The chapters cover a number of historical periods, geographical locations, and critical and methodological perspectives, such as the political economy of Sinophone film production, distribution, consumption and regulation; cinematic practices of Chinese and non-Chinese language resistance, complicity and transformation; and Sinophone communities as sites of cultural production and visual economies"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-218) and index.

Includes filmography.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Foreword: The Sinophone Redistribution of the Audible; Shih Shu-mei; title: Notes on Chinese names and film titles; title: PART I: THEORISING SINOPHONE CINEMAS1. Framing Sinophone Cinemas; Audrey Yue and Olivia Khoo2. Genealogies of Four Critical Paradigms in Chinese-Language Film Studies; Sheldon Lu 3. Alter-centering Sinophone Cinema; Yiman Wang 4. Festivals, Censorship and the Canon: the Makings of Sinophone Cinemas; Yifen T. Beus 5. The Voice of the Sinophone; Song Hwee Lim6. The Sounds of Language: Tan Pin Pin's Sinophone Cinema; Olivia Khoo PART II: CONTEMPORARY SINOPHONE CINEMAS7. Mandarin Pop Meets Tokyo Jazz: Gender and Popular Youth Culture in Late 1960s Hong Kong Musicals; Jennifer Feeley 8. Sinophone Libidinal Economy in the Age of Neoliberalisation and Mainlandisation: Masculinities in Hong Kong SAR New Wave Cinema; Mirana M. Szeto9. 'Singlish' and the Sinophone: Nonstandard (Chinese/English) Languages in Recent Singaporean cinema; Alison M. Groppe10. British Chinese Short Films: Challenging the Limits of the Sinophone; Felicia Chan and Andy Willis 11. Contemporary Sinophone Cinema: Australia-China Co-Productions; Audrey Yue.