Citing China: Politics, Postmodernism, and World Cinema 9780824866600
Citing China explores the role film plays in creating a common ground for the exchange of political and aesthetic ideas
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English Pages 248 Year 2018
Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction: Hot Air and High Hopes in World Cinema
2. Storms over Asia: Mongolia, Montage Aesthetics, and Jia Zhangke’s The World
3. Bicycle Thieves and Pickpockets: Jia Zhangke’s Xiao Wu and Patrick Tam’s After This Our Exile
4. Brecht in Hong Kong Cinema: Ann Hui’s Ordinary Heroes and Evans Chan’s The Life and Times of Wu Zhongxian
5. Les Maoïstes, les Chinoises, and Jean-Pierre Léaud: China, France, and the Sexual Politics of the Cultural Revolution
6. Dragons in Diaspora: The Politics of Race in Bruce Lee’s Way of the Dragon and Louis Leterrier’s Unleashed
7. Citing the American Dream in the People’s Republic of China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong: Clara Law’s Like a Dream and Red Earth
Conclusion: Cinematic Citations and the Circulation of Chinese- Language Motion Pictures
Notes
Filmography
Bibliography
Index
Contents
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction: Hot Air and High Hopes in World Cinema
2. Storms over Asia: Mongolia, Montage Aesthetics, and Jia Zhangke’s The World
3. Bicycle Thieves and Pickpockets: Jia Zhangke’s Xiao Wu and Patrick Tam’s After This Our Exile
4. Brecht in Hong Kong Cinema: Ann Hui’s Ordinary Heroes and Evans Chan’s The Life and Times of Wu Zhongxian
5. Les Maoïstes, les Chinoises, and Jean-Pierre Léaud: China, France, and the Sexual Politics of the Cultural Revolution
6. Dragons in Diaspora: The Politics of Race in Bruce Lee’s Way of the Dragon and Louis Leterrier’s Unleashed
7. Citing the American Dream in the People’s Republic of China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong: Clara Law’s Like a Dream and Red Earth
Conclusion: Cinematic Citations and the Circulation of Chinese- Language Motion Pictures
Notes
Filmography
Bibliography
Index
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