Irvington Way Institute Press, 2011. — 300 p. First published in 2000, Planet Hong Kong is acclaimed as the best book on this vibrant, unpredictable cinema. It surveys the history, its rise to international renown, the dominant genres and stars, and its unique contributions to world cinema. Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, John Woo, Tsui Hark, Chang Cheh, Lau Kar-leung, and Wong Kar-wai...
Hong Kong University Press, 2019. — 257 p. Postwar Hong Kong cinema played an active role in building the colony’s community in the 1950s and 1960s. To Jing Jing Chang, the screening of movies in postwar Hong Kong was a process of showing the filmmakers’ visions for Hong Kong society and simultaneously an attempt to conceal their anxieties and mask their political agenda. It...
Amsterdam University Press, 2020. — 412 p. Queer Representations in Chinese-language Film and the Cultural Landscape provides a cultural history of queer representations in Chinese-language film and media, negotiated by locally produced knowledge, local cultural agency, and lived histories. Incorporating a wide range of materials in both English and Chinese, this...
Intellect Ltd., UK & USA, 2008. — 192 p. The increasingly popular films of the Hong Kong New Wave grapple with such issues as East-West cultural conflicts, colonial politics, the divide between rich and poor, the plight of women in a modernizing Asian city, and the identity crises provoked by Hong Kong’s estranged motherland. Comprehensive and penetrating, Hong Kong New Wave...
Wiley Blackwell, 2015. — 619 p. — (Wiley-Blackwell Companions). A Companion to Hong Kong Cinema provides the first comprehensive scholarly exploration of this unique global cinema. By embracing the interdisciplinary approach of contemporary film and cultural studies, this collection navigates theoretical debates while charting a new course for future research in Hong Kong film....
Berghahn Books, 2015. — 288 p. The trajectory of Hong Kong films had been drastically affected long before the city's official sovereignty transfer from the British to the Chinese in 1997. The change in course has become more visible in recent years as China has aggressively developed its national film industry and assumed the role of powerhouse in East Asia's cinematic...
Routledge, 2007. — 225 p. — ISBN: 978-0-203-96439-2. Following the recent success of Taiwanese film directors, such as Hou Hsiao-hsien, Edward Yang, Ang Lee and Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwanese film is raising its profile in contemporary cinema. This collection presents an exciting and ambitious foray into the cultural politics of contemporary Taiwan film that goes beyond the...
Hong Kong University Press, 2003. — 197 p. This book presents the nature and significance of the famous film Ashes of Time, and the reasons for its being regarded as a landmark in Hong Kong cinema.
Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. — 247 p. — ISBN: 978-0-230-11162-2. A groundbreaking study of Taiwan cinema, Hong provides helpful insight into how it is taught and studied by taking into account not only the auteurs of New Taiwan Cinema, but also the history of popular genre films before the 1980s. The book is essential for students and scholars of Taiwan, film and visual studies,...
BFI, 2011. — 221 p. The Chinese Cinema Book provides an essential guide to the cinemas of the People's Republic of China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and the Chinese diaspora, from early cinema to the present day. With contributions from leading international scholars, the book is structured around five thematic sections: Territories, Trajectories, Historiographies; Early Cinema to 1949;...
Brill Academic, 2020. — 212 p. — (Ideas, History, and Modern China 22). What role did cinema play in the Chinese Communist Party's political project of shaping ideal socialist citizens in the early People's Republic? In Moulding the Socialist Subject, Xiaoning Lu deploys case studies from popular film genres, movie star culture and rural film exhibition practices to argue that...
I.B. Tauris, 2017. — 352 p. There's a folk memory of China in which numberless yellow hordes pour out of the 'mysterious East' to overwhelm the vulnerable West, accompanied by a stereotype of the Chinese as cruel, cunning and depraved. Hollywood films played their part in perpetuating these myths and stereotypes that constituted 'The Yellow Peril'. Jeffrey Richards examines in...
Oxford University Press, 2013. — 736 p. What does it mean for a cinematic work to be "Chinese"? Does it refer specifically to a work's subject, or does it also reflect considerations of language, ethnicity, nationality, ideology, or political orientation? Such questions make any single approach to a vast field like "Chinese cinema" difficult at best. Accordingly, The Oxford...
Lexington Books, 2014. — 208 p. This book is the first extensive study of lesbian cinema in mainland China. It also provides an account of the history of Chinese homosexuality, especially its female same-sex erotic tradition, from antiquity to the present day.
Berkeley; Los Angeles; London: University of California Press, 2007. — xiv, 243 p. — ISBN: 9780520249448. Shu-mei Shih inaugurates the field of Sinophone studies in this vanguard excursion into sophisticated cultural criticism situated at the intersections of Chinese studies, Asian American studies, diaspora studies, and transnational studies. Arguing that the visual has become...
Scarecrow Press, 2007. — 631 p. Despite the industry being shutdown by two world wars, having its martial arts films dismissively labeled as "chopsocky," and operating on shoestring budgets, the films of Hong Kong have been praised and imitated all over the world. From its beginning in 1909 with the silent short Stealing the Roast Duck to the martial arts classic Enter the Dragon...
Cambridge University Press, 2002. — 257 p. — ISBN: 978-0-521-80677-1. Despite differences in the political, social, and economic systems of Taiwan and mainland China, the process of modernization in both have challenged traditional cultural norms. Tonglin Lu examines how differences in cultural formation between Taiwan and China have influenced reactions to modernity and how...
Routledge, 2022. — 237 p. This book explores how Chinese films constructed an image of China in the 1980s through analyzing the characters, composition of space, and conflict patterns of the films. It also examines the relationship between the representations in Chinese cinema and the realities of Chinese society.
Hong Kong Film Archive, 2018. — 290 p. Hong Kong cinema was born long before the stardom of Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan, or the arthouse films of Wong Kar-Wai and Ann... The buildup to and outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937 reoriented Hong Kong filmmakers, who began to make patriotic, anti-Japanese films.
University of Hawaii Press, 2009. — 272 p. In this milestone work, prominent China film scholar Yingjin Zhang proposes polylocality as a new conceptual framework for investigating the shifting spaces of contemporary Chinese cinema in the age of globalization. Questioning the national cinema paradigm, Zhang calls for comparative studies of underdeveloped areas beyond the...
London & New York: Routledge - Taylor & Francis Group, 2004. — xiii; 328 p. ISBN: 0203645839 Master e-book ISBN: What does it mean to be ‘Chinese’? This controversial question has sparked off a never-ending process of image-making in Chinese and Chinese-speaking communities throughout the twentieth century. This introduction to Chinese national cinema, written for scholars and...
Пер с кит. — СПб.: Нестор-История, 2021. — 248 с. — ISBN 978-5-4469-1838-6. Переводчики: Го Давэнь, Ян Пашкевич, Анна Морская, Гао Гэ, Ван Вэньди, Ли Цзин, Пань Кай, Ли Байгэ. В издании рассказывается о развитии и изменениях в китайском кинематографе за последнее столетие и приводятся свидетельства неукротимого духа китайского народа. Кинематографическое искусство — словно...
Пер с кит. — СПб.: Нестор-История, 2021. — 248 с. — ISBN 978-5-4469-1838-6. Переводчики: Го Давэнь, Ян Пашкевич, Анна Морская, Гао Гэ, Ван Вэньди, Ли Цзин, Пань Кай, Ли Байгэ. В издании рассказывается о развитии и изменениях в китайском кинематографе за последнее столетие и приводятся свидетельства неукротимого духа китайского народа. Кинематографическое искусство — словно...
Пер с кит. — СПб.: Нестор-История, 2021. — 248 с. — ISBN 978-5-4469-1838-6. Переводчики: Го Давэнь, Ян Пашкевич, Анна Морская, Гао Гэ, Ван Вэньди, Ли Цзин, Пань Кай, Ли Байгэ. В издании рассказывается о развитии и изменениях в китайском кинематографе за последнее столетие и приводятся свидетельства неукротимого духа китайского народа. Кинематографическое искусство — словно...
М.: Институт Дальнего Востока РАН, 2016. — 274 с.: ил. — (Курс лекций и исследовательских работ по духовной культуре Китая). — ISBN 978-5-905379. Книга посвящена исследованию развития китайского кино после проведенных структурных преобразований в системе современного китайского кинопроизводства в условиях активного проведения государственной политики открытости внешнему миру....
СПб.: БХВ-Петербург, 2015. (Лаборатория творчества) — 250 с. — ISBN: 978-5-9775-0907-7. Новая книга петербургского кинокритика Дмитрия Комма рассказывает о феномене гонконгской киноиндустрии, основных этапах ее стремительного развития, художественных концепциях. В ее основе серия статей и цикл лекций, прочитанных автором в Санкт-Петербургском государственном университете. Книга...
Монография. — М.: Наука, Восточная литература, 1993. — 191 с. — ISBN: 5-02-017662-1. Монография представляет собой социально-политический очерк китайского кино как одного из элементов тоталитарного государственного механизма. Прослеживается единая линия развития китайской кинематографии от Яньанских кинобригад через «новое кино» времен «культурной революции» к постепенному...
М.: Наука, 1979. — 233 с.
Работа посвящена этапам развития кинематографии в Китае на протяжении семидесяти лет (1896-1966). Автор подробно рассматривает воздействие политических кампаний маоистов на кино в Китае; рассказывает о лучших китайских фильмах, подвергшихся нападкам во время этих кампаний. В приложении к работе дана избранная фильмография.
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М.: Искусство, 1975. — 118 с. Что происходит сегодня в китайском кино? Как отразились в нем трагические события так называемой «культурной революции»? Какая судьба постигла деятелей китайского кинематографа, не пожелавших следовать «новому курсу» маоистской пропаганды? На все эти вопросы отвечает книга востоковеда С. Торопцева. Книга рассчитана как на специалистов-киноведов, так и...
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