China on Screen

Cinema and Nation

By: Christopher Berry, Mary Ann Farquhar

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Hardcover | 4 April 2006 | Edition Number 1

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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.

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"Recommended." -- Choice "[ China on Screen] will no doubt remain a standard reference for students of cinema studies and is eminently adoptable for the classroom." -- Haiyan Lee, Nations & Nationalism "It is well worth the read for those interested in learning more about this understudied area of film." -- Antoinette Winstead, Film & History "Clear and entertaining... This book is as suitable for people just entering the field as for specialized scholars." -- China Perspectives

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Introduction : cinema and the national	p. 1
Time and the national : history, historiology, haunting	p. 17
Operatic modes : opera film, martial arts, and cultural nationalism	p. 47
Realist modes : melodrama, modernity, and home	p. 75
How should a Chinese woman look? : woman and nation	p. 108
How should Chinese men act? : ordering the nation	p. 135
Where do you draw the line? : ethnicity in Chinese cinemas	p. 169
The national in the transnational	p. 195
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