Isbn: 9780231137065 - china on screen: cinema and nation (film and culture) (4 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, viii, xi, 313 pages. In Very Good condition lacking the issued dust jacket. Spine black with silver lettering. Boards have very slight wear including faint sunning and previous bookshop's sticker to the rear. Text block has very slight wear with previous owner's bookplate to verso to the table of contents page. Illustrated. First edition, first printing. NOTE: Shelved in Column L. 1417000. FP New Rockville Stock.…

Zustand: New. Exploring several hundred years of Chinese cinema, this book considers how movies from China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the Chinese diaspora reflect changing views of the Chinese nation. Giving fresh perspectives on the key movements, themes, and filmmakers in.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 313 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In China on Screen, Chris Berry and Mary Farquhar, leaders in the field of Chinese film studies, explore more than one hundred years of Chinese cinema and nation. Providing new perspectives on key movements, themes, and filmmakers, Berry and Farquhar analyze the films of a variety of directors and actors, including Chen Kaige, Zhang Yimou, Hou Hsiao Hsien, Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, Maggie Cheung, Gong Li, Wong Kar-wai, and Ang Lee. They argue for the abandonment of 'national cinema' as an analytic tool and propose 'cinema and the national' as a more productive framework. With this approach, they show how movies from China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the Chinese diaspora construct and contest different ideas of Chinese nation -- as empire, republic, or ethnicity, and complicated by gender, class, style, transnationalism, and more. Among the issues and themes covered are the tension between operatic and realist modes, male and female star images, transnational production and circulation of Chinese films, the image of the good foreigner -- all related to different ways of imagining nation. Comprehensive and provocative, China on Screen is a crucial work of film analysis.…