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Informationen zum Autor Felicia Chan is a Lecturer in Screen Studies at the University of Manchester researching the construction of national, cultural and cosmopolitan imaginaries in film. She is also co-editor of Genre in Asian Film and Television: New Approaches (2011), founding member of the Chinese Film Forum UK, and author of the forthcoming Cosmopolitan Cinema. Andy Willis is a Reader in Film Studies at the University of Salford, Senior Visiting Curator at HOME, Manchester and a founder member of the Chinese Film Forum UK. He is co-author of The Cinema of Alex de la Iglesia (2007), editor of Film Stars: Hollywood and Beyond (2004), co-editor of Spanish Popular Cinema (2004) and of East Asian Film Stars (2014). Klappentext Chinese Cinemas: International Perspectives examines the impact the rapid expansion of Chinese filmmaking in mainland China has had on independent and popular Chinese cinemas both in and outside of China.This volume gathers the work of both established scholars and newer voices on Chinese cinemas to address questions that interrogate both Chinese films and the place and space of Chinese cinemas within the contemporary global film industries, including the impact on independent filmmaking both within and outside of China; the place of Chinese cinemas produced outside of China; and the significance of new internal and external distribution and exhibition patterns. Zusammenfassung Chinese Cinemas: International Perspectives examines the impact the rapid expansion of Chinese filmmaking in mainland China has had on independent and popular Chinese cinemas both in and outside of China. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Chinese Cinemas, International Perspectives Felicia Chan and Andy Willis Part I: Textual Constructions and Industrial Contexts 1. The Deconstruction and Intensification of 'China', or Primitive Passions in Man of Tai Chi Paul Bowman 2. Internationalising Memory: Traumatic Histories and the PRC's Quest to Win an Oscar A.T. McKenna and Kiki Tianqi Yu 3. Once Upon a Time in China and America: Transnational Storytelling and the Recent Films of Peter Chan Gary Bettinson 4. Mediating Trauma: The Nanjing Massacre, City of Life and Death , and Affect as Soft Power Corey Kai Nelson Schultz Part II: Shifting Foci: Global and Local Chinese Cinemas 5. The Uncertainty Principle: Reframing Independent Film in Twenty-First Century Chinese Cinema Eddie Bertozzi 6. Crossing Hennessy , Big Blue Lake and Flowing Stories : re-centring the local in recent Hong Kong Cinema Andy Willis 7. Blurred lines? The dialectics of the margins and the mainstream in The Wedding Banquet (Ang Lee, 1993) and Saving Face (Alice Wu, 2004) Juliette Ledru Part III: Woman in the Frame 8. First, not only: writing Chinese women's film authorship Felicia Chan 9. Women Characters, Women's Cinema and Neo-Liberal Chinese Modernity: Doubled and Split Chris Berry 10. The Grain of Jade: Woman, Repression, and Fei Mu's Spring in a Small Town Rey Chow Part IV: International Perspectives 11. Michelangelo Antonioni's Chung Kuo - Cina (1972): A Moment of 'Explicitation' Valentina Vitali 12. The Melbourne Controversy: Jia Zhangke and the Melbourne International Film Festival 2009 Robert Hamilton 13. A Chinese Diasporic Festival Film in the Making?: The Interesting Case of Ann Hui's A Simple Life Ruby Cheung ...
