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Chinese films in focus : 25 new takes / edited by Chris Berry.
- Title
- Chinese films in focus : 25 new takes / edited by Chris Berry.
- Publication
- London : British Film Institute, 2003.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Berry, Chris, 1959-
- Description
- viii, 216 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- This is an anthology of 25 fresh and original readings of individual Chinese films. Mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and the diaspora are all included, and historical coverage ranges from the 1930s to the beginning of the 21st century.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Reviews
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Black cannon incident : countering the counter-espionage fantasy / Jason McGrath -- Boat people : second thoughts on text and context / Julian Stringer -- Bullet in the head : trauma, identity and violent spectacle / James Steintrager -- Centre stage : a shadow in reverse / Bérénice Reynaud -- Chinese ghost story : ghostly counsel and innocent man / John Zou -- Chungking express : time and its displacements / Janice Tong -- Crouching tiger, hidden dragon : cultural migrancy and translatability / Felicia Chan -- Crows and sparrows : allegory on a historical threshold / Yiman Wang -- Ermo : (tele)visualising urban/rural transformation / Ping Fu -- Evening bell : Wu Ziniu's visions of history, war and humanity / Yingjin Zhang -- Farewell my concubine : national myth and city memories / Yomi Braester -- Floating life : nostalgia for the Confucian Way in suburban Sydney / Kam Louie -- Flowers of Shanghai : visualising ellipses and (colonial) absence / Gang Gary Xu -- Goddess : fallen woman of Shanghai / Kristine Harris -- Hibiscus town : revolution, love and bean curd / Charles W. Hayford -- In the mood for love : intersections of Hong Kong modernity / Audrey Yu -- Love eterne : almost a (heterosexual) love story / Tan See Kam and Annette Aw -- Not one less : the fable of a migration / Rey Chow -- Red detachment of women : resenting, regendering, remembering / Robert Chi -- Time to live, a time to die : a time to grow / Corrado Neri -- Touch of Zen : action in martial arts movies / Mary Farquhar -- Vive l'amour : eloquent emptiness / Fran Martin -- Wedding banquet : a family (melodrama) affair / Chris Berry -- Yellow earth : hesitant apprenticeship and bitter agency / Helen Hok-Sze Leung -- Yi yi : reflections on reflexive modernity in Taiwan / David Leiwei Li.
- ISBN
- 0851709850
- 0851709869 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^2004353167
- OCLC
- 57344081
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library