New Book Announcement: American and Chinese-Language Cinemas

H-Film New Book Announcement: American and Chinese-Language Cinemas

Discussion published by Lisa Funnell on Friday, October 17, 2014

New Book Announcement

American and Chinese-Language Cinemas: Examining Cultural Flows Edited by Lisa Funnell and Man-fung Yip

Publication Details: Routledge (October 10, 2014) Advances in Film Studies Series 242 Pages ISBN-10: 0415731828 ISBN-13: 978-0415731829

Abstract: 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. This collection (re)considers the complex dynamics of transnational cultural flows between American and Chinese-language film industries. The goal is to bring a more historical perspective to the subject, focusing as much on the Hollywood influence on early Shanghai or postwar Hong Kong films as on the intensifying flows between American and Chinese-language cinemas in recent decades. Contributors emphasize the processes of appropriation and reception involved in transnational cultural practices, examining film production, distribution, and reception.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Examining Cultural Flows -Lisa Funnell and Man-Fung Yip

Section 1: Style, Narrative, Form

1. For Better or Worse, Don’t Change Your Husband!: Remake and Appropriation of American Films in Republican China, 1911-49 -Zhiwei Xiao

2. A Tale of Two Cinemas: Embracing and Rejecting Hollywood’s Influence in 1930s Shanghai -Alison Hulme

3. Sounding Glocal: Synthesizer Scores in Hong Kong Action Cinema -Katherine Spring

Citation: Lisa Funnell. New Book Announcement: American and Chinese-Language Cinemas. H-Film. 10-17-2014. https://networks.h-net.org/node/14467/discussions/47821/new-book-announcement-american-and-chinese-language-cinemas Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. 1 H-Film

4. Ang Lee’s Life of Pi: A Cosmopolitical Perspective -Kin-Yan Szeto

Section 2: Genre

5. (Un-)Folding Hollywood and New Chinese Subjectivity through PRC’s Minority National Films in the 1950s and 1960s -Kwai-Cheung Lo

6. Martial Arts Cinema and Minor Transnationalism -Man-Fung Yip

7. The Chinese War Film: Reframing National History in Transnational Cinema -Vivian Lee

Section 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 Republican China -Yiman Wang

Section 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 of the Ethical Other in Chen Shi- Zheng’s Dark Matter -Kenneth Chan

Index

For Further Information: http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415731829/