Chinese Films In Focus Ii 2nd Ed.

Description:
Chinese cinema continues to go from strength to strength. After art-house hits like Chen Kaige's Yellow Earth (1984) and Wong Kar-wai's In the Mood for Love (2000), the Oscar-winning success of Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (2000) disproved the old myth that subtitled films could not succeed at the multiplex. Chinese Films in Focus II updates and expands the original Chinese Films in Focus: 25 New Takes with fourteen brand new essays, to offer thirty-four fresh and insightful readings of key individual films. The new edition addresses films from mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and other parts of the Chinese diaspora and the historical coverage ranges from the 1930s to the present. The essays, by leading authorities on Chinese cinema as well as up-and-coming scholars, are concise, accessible, rich, and on the cutting edge of current research. Each contributor outlines existing writing and presents an original perspective on the film, making this volume a rich resource for classroom use, scholarly research and general reading for anyone wanting to understand more about the historical development and rich variety of Chinese cinema. Contributors: Annette Aw, Chris Berry, Yomi Braester, Felicia Chan, Esther Cheung, Robert Chi, Rey Chow, Mary Farquhar, Carolyn FitzGerald, Ping Fu, Kristine Harris, Margaret Hillenbrand, Brian Hu, Tan See Kam, Haiyan Lee, Vivian Lee, Helen Hok-Sze Leung, David Leiwei Li, Song Hwee Lim, Kam Louie, Fran Martin, Jason McGrath, Corrado Neri, Jonathan Noble, Beremoce Reynaud, Cui Shuqin, Julian Stringer, Janice Tong, Yiman Wang, Faye Hui Xiao, Gang Gary Xu, Audrey Yue, Yingjin Zhang, John Zou The Editor: Chris Berry is Professor of Film and Television at Goldsmiths, University of London.

Table of Contents:
Introduction: One Film at a Time; C. Berry 15: Deciphering the Local and 'Slanging Up' to the Global; S. Hwee Lim Big Shot's Funeral: Performing a Postmodern Cinema of Attractions; Y. Zhang Black Cannon Incident: Countering the Counterespionage Fantasy; J. McGrath Blind Shaft: Underground as Trope; J. Noble Boat People: Second Thoughts on Text and Context; J. Stringer Centre Stage: A Shadow in Reverse; B. Reynaud A Chinese Ghost Story: Ghostly Counsel and Innocent Man; J. Zou Chungking Express: Time and its Displacements; J. Tong Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Cultural Migrancy and Translatability; F. Chan Crows and Sparrows: Allegory on a Historical Threshold; Y. Wang Durian, Durian: Defamiliarisation of the 'Real'; E. Cheung Ermo: (Tele)Visualizing Urban/Rural Transformation; P. Fu Farewell My Concubine: National Myth and City Memories; Y. Braester Flowers of Shanghai: Visualizing Ellipses and (Colonial) Absence; G. Gary Xu Formula 17: Mainstream in the Margins; B. Hu The Goddess: Fallen Woman of Shanghai; K. Harris Hero: The Return of a Traditional Masculine Ideal in China; K. Louie In The Mood for Love: Intersections of Hong Kong Modernity; A. Yue Kekexili: Mountain Patrol--Moral Dilemma and a Man with a Camera; S. Cui Love Eterne: Almost a (Heterosexual) Love Story; T. See Kam and A. Aw Not One Less: The Fable of a Migration; R. Chow The Personals: Backward Glances, Knowing Looks, and the Voyeur Film; M. Hillenbrand PTU: Re-mapping the Cosmopolitan Crime Zone; V. Lee The Red Detachment of Women: Resenting, Regendering, Remembering; R. Chi Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles: Redeeming the Father by Way of Japan; F. Hui Xiao Spring in a Small Town: Gazing at Ruins; C. FitzGerald Suzhou River: Visual Fetishism and the Defamiliarisation of Shanghai; A. C.Y. Huang A Time to Live, A Time to Die: A Time to Grow; C. Neri A Touch of Zen: Action in Martial Arts Movies; M. Farquhar Vive L'Amour: Eloquent Emptiness; F. Martin Wedding Banquet: A Family Affair; C. Berry Woman, Demon, Human: The Spectral Journey Home; H. Lee Xiao Wu: Watching Time Go By; C. Berry Yellow Earth: Hesitant Apprenticeship and Bitter Agency; H. Hok-Sze Leung Yi Yi: Reflections on Reflexive Modernity in Taiwan; D. Leiwei Li

Author Biography:
CHRIS BERRY is Professor of Film and Television Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. He is the author and editor of many books, including Cinema and the National: China on Screen (co-authored with Mary Farquhar, Columbia University Press and Hong Kong University Press, 2006) and Postsocialist Cinema in Post-Mao China: The Cultural Revolution after the Cultural Revolution (Routledge, 2004).