A Companion to Chinese Cinema

Acknowledgments viii
<p>List of Figures ix</p>
<p>List of Tables xiii</p>
<p>List of Contributors xiv</p>
<p>1 General Introduction 1<br /> Yingjin Zhang</p>
<p>Part I History and Geography 23</p>
<p>2 Transplanting Melodrama: Observations on the Emergence of Early Chinese Narrative Film 25<br /> Zhang Zhen</p>
<p>3 Artists, Cadres, and Audiences: Chinese Socialist Cinema, 1949 1978 42<br /> Paul Clark</p>
<p>4 Directors, Aesthetics, Genres: Chinese Postsocialist Cinema, 1979 2010 57<br /> Yingjin Zhang</p>
<p>5 Hong Kong Cinema Before 1980 75<br /> Robert Chi</p>
<p>6 The Hong Kong New Wave 95<br /> Gina Marchetti</p>
<p>7 Gender Negotiation in Song Cunshou s Story of Mother and Taiwan Cinema of the Early 1970s 118<br /> James Wicks</p>
<p>8 Second Coming: The Legacy of Taiwan New Cinema 133<br /> Darrell William Davis</p>
<p>Part II Industry and Institution 151</p>
<p>9 Propaganda and Censorship in Chinese Cinema 153<br /> Matthew D. Johnson</p>
<p>10 Chinese Media Capital in Global Context 179<br /> Michael Curtin</p>
<p>11 Film and Society in China: The Logic of the Market 197<br /> Stanley Rosen</p>
<p>12 Vulnerable Chinese Stars: From Xizi to Film Worker 218<br /> Sabrina Qiong Yu</p>
<p>13 Ports of Entry: Mapping Chinese Cinema s Multiple Trajectories at International Film Festivals 239<br /> Nikki J. Y. Lee and Julian Stringer</p>
<p>Part III Genre and Representation 263</p>
<p>14 In Search of Chinese Film Style(s) and Technique(s) 265<br /> James Udden</p>
<p>15 Film Genre and Chinese Cinema: A Discourse of Film and Nation 284<br /> Stephen Teo</p>
<p>16 Performing Documentation: Wu Wenguang and the Performative Turn of New Chinese Documentary 299<br /> Qi Wang</p>
<p>17 Chinese Women s Cinema 318<br /> Lingzhen Wang</p>
<p>18 From Urban Films to Urban Cinema: The Emergence of a Critical Concept 346<br /> Yomi Braester</p>
<p>Part IV Arts and Media 359</p>
<p>19 The Intertwinement of Chinese Film and Literature: Choices and Strategies in Adaptations 361<br /> Liyan Qin</p>
<p>20 Diary of a Homecoming: (Dis–)Inhabiting the Theatrical in Postwar Shanghai Cinema 377<br /> Weihong Bao</p>
<p>21 Cinema and the Visual Arts of China 400<br /> Jerome Silbergeld</p>
<p>22 From Mountain Songs to Silvery Moonlight: Some Notes on Music in Chinese Cinema 417<br /> Jerome Silbergeld</p>
<p>23 Cross–Fertilization in Chinese Cinema and Television: A Strategic Turn in Cultural Policy 429<br /> Ying Zhu and Bruce Robinson</p>
<p>24 Chinese Cinema and Technology 449<br /> Gary G. Xu</p>
<p>Part V Issues and Debates 467</p>
<p>25 Chinese Film Scholarship in Chinese 469<br /> Chen Xihe</p>
<p>26 Chinese Film Scholarship in English 484<br /> Chris Berry</p>
<p>27 The Return of the Repressed: Masculinity and Sexuality Reconsidered 499<br /> Shuqin Cui</p>
<p>28 Homosexuality and Queer Aesthetics 518<br /> Helen Hok–Sze Leung</p>
<p>29 Alter–centering Chinese Cinema: The Diasporic Formation 535<br /> Yiman Wang</p>
<p>30 The Absent American: Figuring the United States in Chinese Cinema of the Reform Era 552<br /> Michael Berry</p>
<p>Bibliography 575</p>
<p>Filmography 628</p>
<p>Index 655</p>