4th and 5th Generations of Chinese Filmmaking Selected Bibliography

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Chinese Cinema (General)

Berry, Chris. Chinese Cinema. London and New York: Routledge, 2013.

--- (ed). Perspectives on Chinese Cinema. London: British Film Institute, 1991.

---, and Laikwan Pang. “Remapping Contemporary Chinese Cinema Studies.” China Review 10.2 (2010): 89-108.

---, and Mary A. Farquhar. China on Screen: Cinema and Nation. New York: Columbia University Press, 2006.

Clark, Paul. Chinese Cinema: Culture and Politics Since 1949. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987.

Lim, Song H. and Julian Ward. The Chinese Cinema Book. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

Pickowicz, Paul. China on Film: A Century of Exploration, Confrontation, and Controversy. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2012.

Rojas, Carlos, and Eileen C. Chow (eds). The Oxford Handbook of Chinese Cinemas. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.

Voci, Paola. “The Chinese Cinema Book.” The China Journal 69 (2013): 251-4.

Yang, Jeff, and Art Black. Once Upon a Time in China: A Guide to Hong Kong, Taiwanese, and Mainland Chinese Cinema. New York: Atria Books, 2003.

Zhang, Yingjin (ed). A Companion to Chinese Cinema. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing, 2012.

---. Chinese National Cinema. London and New York: Routledge, 2004.

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4th and 5th Generations of Chinese Filmmaking Selected Bibliography

History of the Cultural Revolution in China

Ahmad, S.H. “China’s ‘Cultural Revolution’.” International Studies 9.1 (1967): 13-54.

An, Tai Sung. Mao Tsetung’s Cultural Revolution. Indianapolis: Pegasus, 1972.

Asia Research Centre. The Great Cultural Revolution in China. Rutland, VT: C.E. Tuttle Co., 1968.

Baum, Richard, and Louise B. Bennett. China In Ferment; Perspectives on the Cultural Revolution. Englewoods Cliffs, NJ.: Prentice-Hall, 1971.

Clark, Paul. The Chinese Cultural Revolution: A History. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008.

Dutt, Gargi and V.P. Dutt. China’s Cultural Revolution. New York: Asia Publishing House, 1970.

Joseph, William A, Christine Wong, and David Zweig. New Perspectives on the Cultural Revolution. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1991.

Robinson, Thomas W. and Richard Baum. The Cultural Revolution in China. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1971.

New Chinese Cinemas

Berry, Chris. Toward a Postsocialist Cinema: The Cultural Revolution in the Films from the PRC. London: Routledge, 2004.

Browne, Nick, Paul G. Pickowicz, Vivian Sobchack, and Esther Yau (eds). New Chinese Cinemas: Forms, Identities, Politics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Chow, Rey, “Silent is the Ancient Plain: Music, Filmmaking, and the Conception of Reform in China’s New Cinema.”Discourse 12.2 (1990): 82-109.

Cornelius, Sheila, and Ian Haydn. New Chinese Cinema: Challenging Representations. London and New York: Wallflower, 2002.

Eder, Klaus and Deac Rossell. New Chinese Cinema. London: National Film Theatre, 1993.

Lu, Tonglin. Confronting Modernity in the Cinemas of Taiwan and Mainland China. Cambridge, UK:

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Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Moore-Gilbert, and John Seed (eds). Cultural Revolution?: The Challenge of the Arts in the 1960s. New York: Routledge, 1992.

Semsel, George S., Xia Hong, and Chen Xihe. Film in Contemporary China: Critical Debates, 1979-1989. ABC-CLIO, 1993.

Semsel, George Stephen, Hong Xia, and Jianping Hou. Chinese Film Theory: A Guide to the New Era. New York: Praeger, 1990.

Tam, Kwok-kan and Wimmal Dissanayake. New Chinese Cinema. Hong Kong and New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.

Zhang, Xudong. Chinese Modernism in the Era of Reforms: Cultural Fever, Avant-Garde Fiction, and the New Chinese Cinema. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1997.

The 4th and 5th Generations of Chinese Film and Filmmakers

Berry, Chris. “Market Forces: China’s ‘Fifth Generation’ Faces the Bottom Line.” in Perspectives on Chinese Cinema. Chris Berry (ed). London: British Film Institute, 1991. 114-124.

Chen, Jessie, and S.M. Mazharul Haque. Representation of the Cultural Revolution in Chinese Films by the Fifth Generation Filmmakers: Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige, and Tian Zhuangzhuang. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2007.

Clark, Paul. Reinventing China: A Generation and its Films. Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 2005.

“Fourth Generation.” Film Reference. Accessed June 13, 2013. http://www.filmreference.com/encyclopedia/Academy-Awards-Crime-Films/China-FOURTH- GENERATION.html

“Generation Five.” The Economist (June 16, 2005). Accessed June 13, 2013. http://www.economist.com/node/4078418.

Gladney, Dru C. “Tian Zhuangzhuang, the Fifth Generation, and Minorities Film in China.” Public Culture 8.1 (1995): 161-75.

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Jeff. “The Fourth Generation of Chinese Directors.” China Culture. Accessed June 13, 2013. http://www1.chinaculture.org/library/library_culture_film.html.

---. “The Fifth Generation of Chinese Directors.” China Culture. Accessed June 13, 2013. http://www1.chinaculture.org/library/library_culture_film.html.

Ma, Ning. “New Chinese Cinema: A Critical Account of the Fifth Generation.” Cineaste 17.3 (1990): 32- 36.

Wei, Shiyu L. The Fifth Generation and Beyond: Reflections on Contemporary Chinese Film Culture. Ann Arbor: UMI, 2002.

Zhen, Ni. Memoirs from the Beijing Film Academy: The Genesis of China’s Fifth Generation. Chris Berry (trans). Durham: Duke University Press, 2002.

Ziesing, Fabian. “Films of 5th Generation Chinese Filmmaker.” My Opera (February 1, 2007). Accessed June 13, 2013. http://my.opera.com/PRC/blog/films-of-5th-generation-chinese-film-mak.

Case Study: Xie Fei

“Chinese Director Slams Censorship.” NTD Television (December 18, 2012). Accessed on June 27, 2013. http://ntdtv.org/en/news/china/2012-12-18/chinese-director-xie-fei-slams-censorship.html.

“Chinese Director Xie Fei Sounds Off On Censorship.” Global Times (December 18, 2012). Accessed June 27, 2013. http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/750837.shtml.

“Director Xie Fei says China censorship is ‘killing’ art.” BBC (December 2012). Accessed June 13, 2013. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-20754644.

Fei, Xie. “My View of the Concept of Film.” in Chinese Film Theory: A Guide to a New Era. Hou Jian-ping (trans). George S. Semel, Xia Hong, and Hou Jianping (eds). New York: Praeger, 1990.

---. “Foreward.” in Chinese Cinema During the Era of Reform: The Ingenuity of the System. Ying Zhu (ed). Westport, CT: Praeger, 2003.

Zhou, Z. “Gender Configurations in Women from the Lake of Scented Souls: Male Feminism and Its Limitation.” Tamkang Review 38.1 (2007): 171-212.

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“Xie Fei, The Wise Man of Chinese Cinema.” That’s Beijing (March 23, 2006). Accessed June 27, 2013. http://www.china.org.cn/english/NM-e/163265.htm.

Case Study: Chen Kaige

Chong, Woei L. Nature and the Healing of Trauma: Early Films by Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige. Columbus, OH: MCLC Resource Center, 2003.

Chow, Rey. The Seductions of Homecoming: Place, Authenticity, and Chen Kaige's Temptress Moon. Cambridge: University of Cambridge Press, 2000.

Corrigan, David R. “Q&A: Chen Kaige, Director of Farewell My Concubine, Talks About the State of Chinese Cinema.” National Post (June 7, 2013). Accessed June 27, 2013. http://arts.nationalpost.com/2013/06/07/qa-chen-kaige-director-of-farewell-my-concubine- talks-about-the-state-of-chinese-cinema/.

Kaige, Chen. “Huaizhe shenzhide chizi zhiai” (With deep and sincere love from a pure heart). Dianying yishu cankao ziliao 15 (1984): 3.

---. Together. Released by Madman Entertainment, 2002.

---. “Huang Tudi Daoyan Chanshu” (Director’s Notes for Yellow Earth). Beijing Dianyig Xueyuan Xuebao 1 (1985): 110-15.

Larson, Wendy. Duanwu Goes Home: Chen Kaige's Temptress Moon and the Politics of Homecoming. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000.

Leung, Helen Hok-Sze. Farewell, My Concubine. Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2010.

McDougall, Bonnie S. The Yellow Earth: A Film by Chen Kaige with a Complete Translation of the Filmscript. Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 1991.

Rayns, Tony, and Chen Kaige. “Chinese Vocabulary: An Introduction to King of the Children and the New Chinese Cinema.” King of the Children and the New Chinese Cinema. London: Faber and Faber, 1989.

Tong, Allan. “’The Studios are Dead:’ Chen Kaige on China’s New Filmmaking Machine.” Filmmaker (June 11, 2013). Accessed June 27, 2013. http://filmmakermagazine.com/72318-the-studios-are-dead- chen-kaige-on-chinas-new-filmmaking-machine/.

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Contemporary Chinese Cinema

Berry, Michael. Speaking in Images: Interviews with Contemporary Chinese Filmmakers. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005.

Chih-p'ing, Chou, Wei Wang, and Joanne Chiang. Readings in Contemporary Chinese Cinema: A Textbook of Advanced Modern Chinese. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007.

Chow, Rey. Modern Chinese Literary and Cultural Studies in the Age of Theory: Reimagining a Field. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2000.

---. Sentimental Fabulations, Contemporary Chinese Films: Attachment in the Age of Global Visibility. New York: Columbia University Press, 2007.

Kuoshu, Harry H. Celluloid China: Cinematic Encounters with Culture and Society. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2002.

Lin, Xiaoping. “New Chinese Cinema of the ‘Sixth Generation’: A Distant Cry of Forsaken Children.” Third Text 16.3 (2002): 261-284.

Reynaud, Berenice. “Chinese Cinema Now.” Film Comment 39.5 (2003): 54.

Silbergeld, Jerome. China into Film: Frames of Reference in Contemporary Chinese Cinema. London: Reaktion Books, 1999.

Xu, Gary G. Sinascape: Contemporary Chinese Cinema. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2007.

Zhang, Yingjin. Screening China: Critical Interventions, Cinematic Reconfigurations, and the Transnational Imaginary in Contemporary Chinese Cinema. Ann Arbor, MI: Center for Chinese Studies, 2002.

Zhang, Zhen (ed). The Urban Generation: Chinese Cinema and Society at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007.

Chinese Film Production & Industry

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Chinese Film Producers. S.l.: General Books, 2010.

Chu, Yingchi. Hong Kong Cinema: Coloniser, Motherland and Self. London: Routledge Curzon, 2003.

Guide to Filming in Hong Kong, 2009/10. Hong Kong: Film Services Office, Television and Entertainment Licensing Authority, 2009.

Jarvie, I.C. Window on Hong Kong: A Sociological Study of the Hong Kong Film Industry and Its Audience. Hong Kong: Centre of Asian Studies, University of Hong Kong, 1977.

Lee, David T. An Overview of the Chinese Film Industry. Taipei: Government Information Office, 1997.

Li, Xin. Film As Political Bridge to Promote Unification: An Examination of the Film Production Industry in Mainland China and Taiwan. Adelaide, AU: University of Adelaide Press, 2007.

Liu, Alan P. L. The Film Industry in Communist China. Cambridge, MA: Research Program on Problems of Communication and International Security, Center for International Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1965.

Lixiao. “Film Industry in China.” China.Org (January 17, 2004). Accessed June 27, 2013. http://www.china.org.cn/english/features/film/84966.htm.

Wang, Shujen. Framing Piracy: Globalization and Film Distribution in Greater China. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003.

Zhu, Ying. Chinese Cinema During the Era of Reform: The Ingenuity of the System. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2003.

The Future of Chinese Cinema

Berry, Chris, Xinyu Lü, and Lisa Rofel. The New Chinese Documentary Film Movement: For the Public Record. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2010.

Curtin, Michael. Playing to the World's Biggest Audience: The Globalization of Chinese Film and TV. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007.

---. “The Future of Chinese Cinema: Some Lessons from Hong Kong.” in Chinese Media, Global Contexts.

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Chin-Chuan Lee (ed). New York: Routledge, 2003. 237-256.

Khoo, Olivia, and Sean Metzger. Futures of Chinese Cinema: Technologies and Temporalities in Chinese Screen Cultures. Bristol, UK and Chicago: Intellect, 2009.

Marchetti, Gina, and Tan See Kam (eds). Hong Kong Film, Hollywood and the New Global Cinema: No Film Is an Island. London: Routledge, 2007.

Tweedie, James. The Age of New Waves: Art Cinema and the Staging of Globalization. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.

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