1st Edition
Chinese Cinemas International Perspectives
Introduction: Chinese Cinemas, International Perspectives
Felicia Chan and Andy Willis
Part I: Textual Constructions and Industrial Contexts
1. The Deconstruction and Intensification of ‘China’, or Primitive Passions in Man of Tai Chi
Paul Bowman
2. Internationalising Memory: Traumatic Histories and the PRC’s Quest to Win an Oscar
A.T. McKenna and Kiki Tianqi Yu
3. Once Upon a Time in China and America: Transnational Storytelling and the Recent Films of Peter Chan
Gary Bettinson
4. Mediating Trauma: The Nanjing Massacre, City of Life and Death, and Affect as Soft Power
Corey Kai Nelson Schultz
Part II: Shifting Foci: Global and Local Chinese Cinemas
5. The Uncertainty Principle: Reframing Independent Film in Twenty-First Century Chinese Cinema
Eddie Bertozzi
6. Crossing Hennessy, Big Blue Lake and Flowing Stories: re-centring the local in recent Hong Kong Cinema
Andy Willis
7. Blurred lines? The dialectics of the margins and the mainstream in The Wedding Banquet (Ang Lee, 1993) and Saving Face (Alice Wu, 2004)
Juliette Ledru
Part III: Woman in the Frame
8. First, not only: writing Chinese women’s film authorship
Felicia Chan
9. Women Characters, Women’s Cinema and Neo-Liberal Chinese Modernity: Doubled and Split
Chris Berry
10. The Grain of Jade: Woman, Repression, and Fei Mu’s Spring in a Small Town
Rey Chow
Part IV: International Perspectives
11. Michelangelo Antonioni’s Chung Kuo — Cina (1972): A Moment of ‘Explicitation’
Valentina Vitali
12. The Melbourne Controversy: Jia Zhangke and the Melbourne International Film Festival 2009
Robert Hamilton
13. A Chinese Diasporic Festival Film in the Making?: The Interesting Case of Ann Hui’s A Simple Life
Ruby Cheung
Biography
Felicia Chan is a Lecturer in Screen Studies at the University of Manchester researching the construction of national, cultural and cosmopolitan imaginaries in film. She is also co-editor of Genre in Asian Film and Television: New Approaches (2011), founding member of the Chinese Film Forum UK, and author of the forthcoming Cosmopolitan Cinema.
Andy Willis is a Reader in Film Studies at the University of Salford, Senior Visiting Curator at HOME, Manchester and a founder member of the Chinese Film Forum UK. He is co-author of The Cinema of Alex de la Iglesia (2007), editor of Film Stars: Hollywood and Beyond (2004), co-editor of Spanish Popular Cinema (2004) and of East Asian Film Stars (2014).
