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New Chinese cinemas, forms, identities, politics, edited by Nick Browne [and others]

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New Chinese cinemas

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edited by Nick Browne [and others]

Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks

forms, identities, politics

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.--, Provided by publisher

Spatiality and subjectivity in Xie Jin's film melodrama of the new period / Ma Ning -- Society and subjectivity : on the political economy of Chinese melodrama / Nick Browne -- Huang Jianxin and the notion of postsocialism / Paul G. Pickowicz -- Neither one thing nor another : toward a study of the viewing subject and Chinese cinema in the 1980s / Chris Berry -- Remapping Taipei / Fredric Jameson -- The ideology of initiation : the films of Hou Hsiao-hsien / William Tay -- The return of the father : Hong Kong new wave and its Chinese context in the 1980s / Li Cheuk-To -- Border crossing : mainland China's presence in Hong Kong cinema / Ester Yau -- Two films from Hong Kong : parody and allegory / Leo Ou-Fan Lee