1st Edition

American and Chinese-Language Cinemas Examining Cultural Flows

Edited By Lisa Funnell, Man-Fung Yip Copyright 2015
232 Pages
by Routledge

242 Pages
by Routledge

242 Pages
by Routledge

Critics frequently describe the influence of "America," through Hollywood and other cultural industries, as a form of cultural imperialism. This unidirectional model of interaction does not address, however, the counter-flows of Chinese-language films into the American film market or the influence of Chinese filmmakers, film stars, and aesthetics in Hollywood. The aim of this collection is to... Read more

Introduction: Examining Cultural Flows Lisa Funnell and Man-Fung Yip  Part 1: Style, Narrative, Form  1. For the Better or For the Worse, Don’t Change Your Husband!: Remake and Appropriation of American Films in Republican China, 1911-1949 Zhiwei Xiao  2. A Tale of Two Cinemas: Embracing and Rejecting Hollywood’s Influence in 1930s Shanghai – A Precursor to 21st Century Capitalist/Communist Dreams? Alison Hume  3. "Glocal" Sounds and the Synth-Pop Scores of Hong Kong Cinema Katherine Spring 4. Ang Lee’s Life of Pi: A Cosmopolitan Perspective Kin-Yan Szeto  Part 2: Genre  5. (Un-)Folding Hollywood and New Chinese Subjectivity through PRC’s Minority National Film in the 1950s and 60s Kwai-Cheung Lo  6. Action Cinema and Minor Transnationalism Man-Fung Yip  7. The Chinese War Film: Reframing National History in Transnational Cinema Vivian Lee Part 3: Marketing, Exhibition, Reception  8. Cinema, Propaganda, and Networks of Experience: Exhibiting Chongqing Cinema in New York Weihong Bao and Nathaniel Brennan  9. Defenders of the Palace: Chinese-Language Movie Theatres and the Fight Over Semi-Private Spaces Brian Hu  10. Reading Hollywood in Postwar Shanghai: From The Metro News to Western Movie Pictorial Lunpeng Ma  11. Watching Anna May Wong in the Republican China Yiman Wang  Part 4: Performance, Identity, Representation  12. Performing Nationality: The Fifth Generation as an "American" Transnational Cinema Victor Fan  13. Colliding Fact and Fiction: Techno-Orientalism and Violence in Chen Shi-Zheng’s Dark Matter Kenneth Chan  14. Re-Framing Chinese and American Connections on Screen: The Casting of White Hollywood Actors in Chinese Funded Films Lisa Funnell

Biography

Lisa Funnell is a Lecturer in the Women’s and Gender Studies Program at the University of Oklahoma, USA. She is co-editor of Transnational Asian Identities in Pan-Pacific Cinemas: The Reel Asian Exchange (Routledge, 2012).

Man-Fung Yip is an Assistant Professor in the Film and Media Studies Program at the University of Oklahoma, USA.