Sinascape Contemporary Chinese Cinema

by Xu, Gary G.

• ISBN13: 9780742554504
• ISBN10: 0742554503
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-12-21
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

Sinascape: Contemporary Chinese Cinema is a comprehensive study of Chinese-language films at the turn of the millennium. Emphasizing the transnational nature of contemporary Chinese cinema, it provides close readings of most of the important films of China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and explores the interactions and transactions among these films and between Chinese cinema and Hollywood. General readers, film enthusiasts, and critics will all benefit from Gary Xu's discussion of popular films like Hero, House of Flying Daggers, Kung Fu Hustle, Devils on the Doorstep, Suzhou River, Beijing Bicycle, Millennium Mambo, Goodbye Dragon Inn, and Hollywood Hong Kong.

Author Biography

Gary G. Xu is associate professor of Chinese, comparative literature, cinema studies, and criticism in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
The Right to Copy and the Digital Copyright: Hero, House of Flying Daggers, and China's Cultural Symptoms	p. 25
Violence, Sixth Generation Filmmaking, and Devils on the Door step	p. 47
"My Camera Doesn't Lie": Cinematic Realism and Chinese Cityscape in Beijing Bicycle and Suzhou River	p. 67
Shaw Brothers' Old Cinema Excavated: From Kung Fu Hustle to Goodbye, Dragon Inn	p. 89
The Smell of the City: Memory and Hou Hsiao-hsien's Millennium Mambo	p. 111
Hollywood Hong Kong, Hollywood Hong Kong, and the Cinematic Mode of Production	p. 133
Postscript: Remaking East Asia	p. 151
Bibliography	p. 159
Index	p. 171
About the Author	p. 175
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