Introduction: Chinese cinemas and the art of extrapolation / Carlos Rojas -- Part I: History. D.W. Griffith and the rise of Chinese cinema in early 1920s Shanghai / Jianhua Chen ; Ombres Chinoises : split screens and parallel lives in love and duty / Kristine Harris ; Fei Mu, Mei Lanfang, and the polemics of screening China / David Der-wei Wang ; A national cinema for a puppet state : the Manchurian Motion Picture Association / Jie Li ; A genealogy of cinephilia in the Maoist period / Yomi Braester ; Cold War politics and Hong Kong Mandarin cinema / Poshek Fu ; Conceiving cross-border communities : mobile women in recent Hong Kong cinema / Tsung-yi Michelle Huang ; Taiwan new cinema : small nation with soft power / Song Hwee Lim ; Chinese cinema with Hollywood characteristics, or How The karate kid became a Chinese film / Michael Berry ; World as picture and ruination : on Jia Zhangke's still life as world cinema / Pheng Cheah -- Part II: Form. The opera film in Chinese cinema : cultural nationalism and cinematic form / Stephen Teo ; A small history of Wenyi / Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh ; Art, politics, and internationalism : Korean war films in Chinese cinema / Ban Wang ; Edification through affection : the Cultural Revolution films, 1974-1976 / Gary Xu ; Reforming vengeance : Kung Fu and the racial melancholia of Chinese masculinity / Michael Eng ; Desire and distribution : queer/Chinese/cinema / Sean Metzger ; Thirdspace between flows and places : Chinese independent documentary and social theories of space and locality / Yingjin Zhang ; From anticorruption to officialdom : the transformation of Chinese dynasty TV drama / Ying Zhu ; New media : large screens in China / Audrey Yue ; Online small screen cinema : the cinema of attractions and the emancipated spectator / Paola Voci -- Part III: Structure. Acting real : cinema, stage, and the modernity of performance in Chinese silent film / Jason McGrath ; Edward Yang and Taiwan's age of auteurs / James Tweedie ; A marriage of convenience : musical moments in Chinese films / Darrell William Davis ; Policing film in early 20th century China, 1905-1923 / Zhiwei Xiao ; Between will and negotiation : film policy in the first three years of People's Republic of China / Laikwan Pang ; Fetish power unbound : a small history of 'woman' in Chinese cinema / Rey Chow ; Ethnographic representation across genres : the culture trope in contemporary mainland media / Louisa Schein ; Conjuring the masses : the spectral / spectacular crowd in Chinese film / Andy Rodhekohr ; The idea of Asia(nism) and trans-Asian productions / Kwai-Cheung Lo ; Film and contemporary Chinese art : mediums and remediation / Eugene Wang ; Crossing the same river twice : documentary re-enactment and the founding of PRC documentary cinema / Ying Qian ; Remade in China : cinema with "Chinese elements" in the Dapian Age / Yiman Wang ; Along the riverrun : cinematic encounters in Tsai Ming-liang's The river / Carlos Rojas -- Afterword: Chinese cinema as monkey's tail / Eileen Cheng-Yin Chow.
Summary:
"Offering both a platform for cross-disciplinary dialogue and a mapping of Chinese cinema as an expanded field, this Handbook presents thirty-three essays by leading researchers and scholars intent on yielding new insights and new analyses using three different methodologies. Chapters in Part I investigate the historical periodizations of the field through changing notions of national and political identity -- all the way from the industry's beginnings in the 1920s up to its current forms in contemporary Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the global diaspora. Chapters in Part II feature studies centered on the field's taxonomical formalities, including such topics as the role of the Chinese opera in technological innovation, the political logic of the "Maoist film," and the psychoanalytic formula of the kung fu action film. Finally, in Part III, focus is given to the structural elements that comprise a work's production, distribution, and reception to reveal the broader cinematic apparatuses within which these works are positioned. Taken together, the multipronged approach supports a wider platform beyond the geopolitical and linguistic limitations in existing scholarship. Expertly edited to illustrate a representative set of up to date topics and approaches, The Oxford Handbook of Chinese Cinemas provides a vital addition to a burgeoning field still in its formative stages." -- Publisher's description.
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