Chinese Connections

by See Kam, Tan

• ISBN13: 9781592132676
• ISBN10: 1592132677
• Format: Hardcover
• 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

Contributors' Biography

On Chinese Names

List of Illustrations

General Introduction

Global Connections

False Consciousness and Double Consciousness: Race, Virtual Reality, and the Assimilation of Hong Kong Action Cinema in The Matrix

The Par-asian Cinematic Imaginary in Olivier Assayas's Irma Vep

The HK Venture: The Francophone Cine-logocentric Nexus

Wong Fei Hong in Da House: Hong Kong Martial Arts Films and Hip Hop Culture

Same Difference: Reading Racial Masculinity in Recent Hong Kong/Cop Buddy "Hybrids"

American Popular Music and Neocolonialism in the Films of Edward Yang

Hollywood/Taiwan: Connections, Countercurrents, and Ang Lee's The Hulk

Becoming Hollywood? Hong Kong Cinema in the New Century

Questions of Genders / TAN

"From Behind the Wall": The Representation of Gender and Sexuality in Modern Chinese Film

Beyond the Western Gaze: Orientalism, Feminism, and the Suffering Woman in Non-Transnational Chinese Cinema

Disappearing Faces: Bisexuality and Transvestitism in two Hong Kong comedies

Staging Gay Life in China: East Palace, West Palace

Whose Fatal Ways: Mapping the Boundary and Consuming the Other in Border Crossing Films

Asian Martial Arts Cinema, Dance, and the Cultural Languages of Gender

At the Millennium and Beyond

Singapore as A Society of Strangers: Eric Khoo's Mee Pok Man, 12 Storeys and Be With Me

Chinese Cinema Revisits the City: Beijing Trilogy and Global Urbanism of the Nineties

Taiwan Fever?: Tsai Ming-Liang and Everyday Post-Nation

The Looks of Capital and Old Music: Historicism in Victim (1999)

Zhang Yimou's Hero: The Temptations of Fascism

Notes

Chinese names, words and phrases

Filmography

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