Sinascape: Contemporary Chinese Cinema
Gary G. Xu
Language: English
Pages: 188
ISBN: 0742554503
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
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.
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Contents List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 Chapter 1 The Right to Copy and the Digital Copyright: Hero, House of Flying Daggers, and China's Cultural Symptoms 25 Chapter 2 Violence, Sixth Generation Filmmaking, and Devils on the Doorstep 47 "My Camera Doesn't Lie": Cinematic Realism and Chinese Cityscape in Beijing Bicycle and Suzhou River 67 Chapter 4 Shaw Brothers' Old Cinema Excavated: From KungFu Hustle to Goodbye, Dragon Inn 89 Chapter 3
Chapter 5 Chapter 6 The Smell of the City: Memory and Hou Hsiao..hsien's Millennium Mambo 111 I-IollywoodHong Kong, Hollywood HongKong, and the Cinematic Mode of Production 133 Postscript: Remaking East Asia 151 Bibliography 159 vii viii Contents Index 171 About the Author 175
Chapter 5 Chapter 6 The Smell of the City: Memory and Hou Hsiao..hsien's Millennium Mambo 111 I-IollywoodHong Kong, Hollywood HongKong, and the Cinematic Mode of Production 133 Postscript: Remaking East Asia 151 Bibliography 159 vii viii Contents Index 171 About the Author 175
Chapter 5 Chapter 6 The Smell of the City: Memory and Hou Hsiao..hsien's Millennium Mambo 111 I-IollywoodHong Kong, Hollywood HongKong, and the Cinematic Mode of Production 133 Postscript: Remaking East Asia 151 Bibliography 159 vii viii Contents Index 171 About the Author 175
Chapter 5 Chapter 6 The Smell of the City: Memory and Hou Hsiao..hsien's Millennium Mambo 111 I-IollywoodHong Kong, Hollywood HongKong, and the Cinematic Mode of Production 133 Postscript: Remaking East Asia 151 Bibliography 159 vii viii Contents Index 171 About the Author 175
