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Bart Testa on Boat People Bibliography 1 the Higher Learning Bart Testa on Boat People Bibliography The Higher Learning staff curate digital resource packages to complement and offer further context to the topics and themes discussed during the various Higher Learning events held at TIFF Bell Lightbox. These filmographies, bibliographies, and additional resources include works directly related to guest speakers’ work and careers, and provide additional inspirations and topics to consider; these materials are meant to serve as a jumping-off point for further research. Please refer to the event video to see how topics and themes relate to the Higher Learning event. Hong Kong Cinema (General) Bordwell, David. Planet Hong Kong: Popular Cinema and the Art of Entertainment. Madison, WI: Irvington Way Institute Press, 2011. Chu, Yingchi. Hong Kong Cinema: Coloniser, Motherland and Self. London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003. Kar, Law, and Frank Bren. Hong Kong Cinema: A Cross-Cultural View. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2004. Pang, Laikwan, and Day Wong (eds). Masculinities and Hong Kong Cinema. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2005. Stokes, Lisa O. and Michael Hoover. City on Fire: Hong Kong Cinema. London: Verso, 1999. Stokes, Lisa O. Jean Lukitsh, Michael Hoover, and Tyler Stokes (eds). Historical Dictionary of Hong Kong Cinema. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2007. Teo, Stephen. Hong Kong Cinema: The Extra Dimensions. London: BFI, 1997. Hong Kong New Wave Cinema Cheung, Esther M.K., Gina Marchetti, and Kam T. See (eds). Hong Kong Screenscapes: From the New Wave to the Digital Frontier. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2011. Fu, Poshek, and David Desser (eds). The Cinema of Hong Kong: History, Arts, Identity. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Rodriguez, Hector. “The Emergence of the Hong Kong New Wave.” At Full Speed (2001): 53-69. Hong Kong New Wave: Twenty Years After. Hong Kong: Provisional urban council of Hong Kong, 1999. 1 Bart Testa on Boat People Bibliography Yau, Ching-Mei E. At Full Speed: Hong Kong Cinema in a Borderless World. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2001. Zhuo, Botang. Hong Kong New Wave Cinema (1978-2000). Bristol, UK: Intellect, 2008. The Films of Ann Hui Berry, Michael. “Ann Hui: Living Through Films.” in Speaking in Images: Interviews with Contemporary Chinese Filmmakers. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005. Erens, Patricia Brett. “The Film Work of Ann Hui.” in The Cinema of Hong Kong: History, Arts, Identity. Poshek Fu and David Desser (eds). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Leung, Nim-ming. A Study of Marginality in Ann Hui’s Films. Hong Kong: University of Hong Kong, 2000. Marchetti, Gina. “Gender Politics and Neoliberalism in China: Ann Hui’s The Postmodern Life of My Aunt.” Visual Anthropology 22 (2009): 123-140. Szeto, Mirana M. “Ann Hui at the Margin of the Mainstream Hong Kong Cinema.” in Hong Kong Screenscapes: From the New Wave to the Digital Frontier. Esther M.K. Cheung, Gina Marchetti, and Kam T. See (eds). Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2011. 51-66. Xu, Anhua and Baowei Kuang. Ann Hui on Ann Hui. Shanghai: Fu dan da xue chu ban she, 2010. Yang, Mayfair M. Spaces of Their Own: Women’s Public Sphere in Transnational China. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999. Yee-lin Ho, Elaine. “Women on the Edges of Hong Kong Modernity: the Films of Ann Hui.” in At Full Speed: Hong Kong Cinema in a Borderless World. Ching-Mei E. Yau (ed.). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2001. Yau, Ka-Fai. “Looking Back at Ann Hui’s Cinema of the Political.” Modern Chinese Literature and Culture 19.2 (2007): 117-150. Yue, Audrey. Ann Hui’s Song of the Exile. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2010. Chinese Cinema (General) 2 Bart Testa on Boat People Bibliography 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. ProQuest. Accessed June 13, 2013. ---, 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, MD: 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. Hoboken, NJ: Blackwell Publishing, 2012. ---. Chinese National Cinema. New York: Routledge, 2004. 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. 3 Bart Testa on Boat People Bibliography 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: 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. Westport, CT: Praeger, 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. 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. 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 (eds). Readings in Contemporary Chinese Cinema: A Textbook of Advanced Modern Chinese. Princeton, NJ: Princeton U.P, 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. 4 Bart Testa on Boat People Bibliography 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 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, Taiwan: Government Information Office, 1997. Li, Xin. 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