The Chinese cinema book
By: edited by Song Hwee Lim and Julian Ward
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan on behalf of the British Film Institute; Palgrave Macmillan; British Film Institute
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9781844573448
Subjects: Motion pictures; Philosophy; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes filmography.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the Coming of Age of Chinese Cinemas Studies / Song Hwee Lim and Julian Ward; title: Territories, Trajectories, Historiographies. Transnational Chinese Cinema Studies / Chris Berry; title: National Cinema as Translocal Practice: Reflections on Chinese Film Historiography / Yingjin Zhang; title: Cinemas of the Chinese Diaspora  / Gina Marchetti; title: Six Chinese Cinemas in Search of a Historiography / Song Hwee Lim; title: Early Cinema to 1949. Shadow Magic and the Early History of Film Exhibition in China / Xuelei Huang and Zhiwei Xiao; title: The Making of a National Cinema: Shanghai Films of the 1930s / Laikwan Pang; title: Wartime Cinema: Reconfiguration and Border Navigation / Yiman Wang; title: Chinese Film-making on the Eve of the Communist Revolution / Paul G. Pickowicz; title: The Forgotten Period: 1949-80. The Remodelling of a National Cinema: Chinese Films of the 17 Years (1949-66) / Julian Ward; title: Healthy Realism in Taiwan, 1964-80: Film Style, Cultural Policies, and Mandarin Cinema / Guo-Juin Hong; title: The Hong Kong Cantonese Cinema: Emergence, Development and Decline / Stephen Teo; title: The New Waves. The Fifth Generation: a Re-assessment / Wendy Larson; title: Taiwan New Cinema and Its Legacy / Tonglin Lu; title: The Hong Kong New Wave: A Critical Reappraisal / Vivian P. Y. Lee; title: Stars, Auteurs and Genres. Dragons Forever: Chinese Martial Arts Stars / Leon Hunt; title: The Contemporary Wuxia Revival: Genre Remaking and the Hollywood Transnational Factor / Kenneth Chan; title: On the Shoulders of Giants: Tsai Ming-liang, Jia Zhangke, Fruit Chan and the Struggles of Second Generation Auteurism / James Udden; title: The Urban Generation: Underground and Independent Films from the PRC / Jason McGrath; title: Contemporary Mainstream PRC Cinema  / Yomi Braester; title: Contemporary Meta Chinese Film Stardom and Transnational Transmedia Celebrity / Anne Ciecko; title: Afterword: Liquidity of Being / Rey Chow.