New Chinese Cinemas: Forms, Identities, Politics

by Edited by Nick Browne , Paul G. Pickowicz , Vivian Sobchack , Esther Yau

• ISBN13: 9780521448772
• ISBN10: 0521448778
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-02-23
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

New Chinese Cinemas analyses the changing forms and significance of filmmaking in the People's Republic of China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong since the end of the Cultural Revolution, with a particular emphasis on how film comments on the profound social changes that have occurred in East Asia over the past two decades. Considering in detail both conservative and progressive stances on economic 'modernisation', it also demonstrates how film has been an important formal structure and social document in the interpretation of these changes. The essays collected here, which were specially commissioned for this volume, also offer extended analyses of the important trends, styles and work that define Chinese filmmaking in the 1980s.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	vii
List of Contributors	xi
Acknowledgments	xv
Note on the Romanization of Chinese	xvii
Introduction	1	(14)
Nick Browne
I Film in the People's Republic
Spatiality and Subjectivity in Xie Jin's Film Melodrama of the New Period	15	(25)
Ma Ning
Society and Subjectivity: On the Political Economy of Chinese Melodrama	40	(17)
Nick Browne
Huang Jianxin and the Notion of Postsocialism	57	(31)
Paul G. Pickowicz
Neither One Thing nor Another: Toward a Study of the Viewing Subject and Chinese Cinema in the 1980s	88	(29)
Chris Berry
II Film in Taiwan and Hong Kong
Remapping Taipei	117	(34)
Fredric Jameson
The Ideology of Initiation: The Films of Hou Hsiao-hsien	151	(9)
William Tay
The Return of the Father: Hong Kong New Wave and Its Chinese Context in the 1980s	160	(20)
Li Cheuk-To
Border Crossing: Mainland China's Presence in Hong Kong Cinema	180	(22)
Esther Yau
Two Films from Hong Kong: Parody and Allegory	202	(15)
Leo Ou-Fan Lee
Chronologies	217	(14)
Paul G. Pickowicz
William Tay
Esther Yau
Li Cheuk-To
Glossary	231	(6)
Scholarly Works on Chinese Filmmaking in the 1980s	237	(12)
Li Huai
Paul G. Pickowicz
Index	249