Chinese Connections

by See Kam, Tan

• ISBN13: 9781592132683
• ISBN10: 1592132685
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-01-28
• Publisher: Temple Univ Pr

Summary

Chinese Connectionsis a valuable new anthology that provides a prismatic look at the cross-fertilization between Chinese film and global popular culture. Leading film scholars consider the influence of world cinema on China-related and Chinese-related cinema over the last five decades. Highlighting the neglected connections between Chinese films and American and European cinema, the editors and contributors examine popular works such as Ang Lee'sThe Hulkand Olivier Assayas'Irma Vepto show the nexus of international film production and how national, political, social and sexual identities are represented in the Chinese diaspora.With talent flowing back and forth between East and West,Chinese Connectionsexplores how issues of immigration, class, race and economic displacement are viewed on a global level, ultimately providing a greater understanding of the impact of Chinese filmmaking at home and abroad.Contributors include: Grace An, Aaron Anderson, Chris Berry, Evans Chan, Li-Mei Chang, Frances Gateward, Andrew Grossman, Peter Hitchcock, Chuck Kleinhans, Jenny Kwok Wah Lau, Helen Leung, Aaron Magnan-Park, Gayle Wald, Esther C.M. Yau, Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh, Xuelin Zhou and the editors.

Author Biography

Tan See-Kam is Associate Professor, Department of Communication, University of Macau, Macao SAR, China. His research mainly focuses on gender and Chinese-language cinema and he has published widely in this area. He is co-editor of Hong Kong Film, Hollywood and the New Global Cinema (2007) and also Hong Kong Alternative Cinema Through the Global Lens (forthcoming).

Peter X Feng is Associate Professor of English and Women’s Studies at the University of Delaware, where he teaches film history, Asian American Studies and Cultural Studies. He is the author of Identities in Motion: Asian American Film and Video and editor of Screening Asian Americans.

Gina Marchetti teaches at the University of Hong Kong in Comparative Literature and is the author of From Tian’anmen to Times Square: Transnational China and the Chinese Diaspora on Global Screens, 1989-1997 (Temple) and Romance and the “Yellow Peril”: Race, Sex, and Discursive Strategies in Hollywood Fiction.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Global Connections
False Consciousness and Double Consciousness: Race, Virtual Reality, and the Assimilation of Hong Kong Action Cinema in The Matrix	p. 9
The Par-asian Cinematic Imaginary in Olivier Assayas's Irma Vep	p. 22
The HK Venture: The Francophone Cine-logocentric Nexus	p. 37
Wong Fei-Hung in Da House: Hong Kong Martial-Arts Films and Hip-Hop Culture	p. 51
Same Difference: Racial Masculinity in Hong Kong and Cop-Buddy "Hybrids"	p. 68
American Popular Music and Neocolonialism in the Films of Edward Yang	p. 82
Hollywood and Taiwan: Connections, Countercurrents, and Ang Lee's Hulk	p. 95
Becoming Hollywood? Hong Kong Cinema in the New Century	p. 109
Questions of Gender
"From Behind the Wall": The Representation of Gender and Sexuality in Modern Chinese Film	p. 125
Beyond the Western Gaze: Orientalism, Feminism, and the Suffering Woman in Nontransnational Chinese Cinema	p. 138
Disappearing Faces: Bisexuality and Transvestism in Two Hong Kong Comedies	p. 152
Staging Gay Life in China: Zhang Yuan and East Palace, West Palace	p. 165
Whose Fatal Ways: Mapping the Boundary and Consuming the Other in Border Crossing Films	p. 177
Asian Martial-Arts Cinema, Dance, and the Cultural Languages of Gender	p. 190
At the Millennium and Beyond
Singapore as a Society of Strangers: Eric Khoo's Mee Pok Man, 12 Storeys, and Be With Me	p. 205
Chinese Cinema Revisits the City: Beijing Trilogy and Global Urbanism of the 1990s	p. 220
Taiwan Fever? Tsai Ming-Liang and the Everyday Postnation	p. 234
The Spirits of Capital and Haunting Sounds: Translocal Historicism in Victim (1999)	p. 249
Zhang Yimou's Hero: The Temptations of Fascism	p. 263
On Chinese Names	p. 279
Chinese Names, Words, and Phrases	p. 281
Chinese-Language Filmography	p. 289
Contributors	p. 298
Index	p. 303
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