Global Chinese cinema
Subtitle: the culture and politics of "Hero"
By: edited by Gary D. Rawnsley and Ming-Yeh T. Rawnsley.
Contributors: Rawnsley, Gary D.; Rawnsley, Ming-Yeh T.
Series: Routledge media, culture and social change in Asia
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9780415453158; 9780203859117
Subjects: Ying xiong (Motion picture); Motion pictures and globalization; Motion pictures and transnationalism; Nationalism in motion pictures; Motion pictures -- China -- 21st century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Changing discourse of national identities and heroism. The political narrative(s) of Hero / GARY D. RAWNSLEY; title: Recycled heroes, invented tradition and transformed identity / YINGJIE GUO; title: The emperor and the assassin: China's national Hero and the myth of state origins / YIYAN WANG; title: The king, the musician and the village idiot: images of manhood / KAM LOUIE; title: Transformations of cultural perception, genre and stardom. Twenty-first century women warriors: variations on a traditional theme / LOUISE EDWARDS; title: On "Tian Xia (All under heaven)" in Zhang Yimou's Hero / XIZOMING CHEN and MING-YEH T. RAWNSLEY; title: Hero: rewriting the Chinese martial arts film genre / HAIZHOU WANG AND MING-YEH T. RAWNSLEY; title: "Would you rather spend more time making serious cinema?": Hero and Tony Leung's polysemic masculinity / MARK GALLAGHER; title: Fifteen minutes of fame: transient/transnational female stardom in Hero / OLIVIA KHOO; title: Local vs. global: deconstructing global Chinese blockbusters. Camp pleasure in an era of Chinese blockbusters: internet reception of Hero in mainland China / SABRINA QIONG YU; title: North American reception of Zhang Yimou's Hero / WENDY LARSON; title: Heroic music: from Hunan to Hollywood and back / KATY GOW; title: Visual effects magic: Hero's Sydney connection / MARY FARQUHAR; title: Towards a global blockbuster: the political economy of Hero's nationalism / ANTHONY FUNG AND JOSEPH M. CHAN.