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cineworx THE PRINCESS OF NEBRASKA Ein Film von Wayne Wang USA/Japan 2007 35mm, 77 min Lunchkino Special 17. Juni 2008 (in Anwesenheit des Regisseurs) ab 10. Juli im Kino Verleih und Presse: cineworx gmbh gerbergasse 30 ch-4001 basel fon: +41-61 261 63 70 fax: +41-61 261 63 77 e-mail: [email protected] Bilder unter www.cineworx.ch 1 cineworx 1. Cast, Crew und technische Daten Sasha Ling Li X Pamelyn Chee Boshen Brian Danforth James Patrice Lukulu Binaisa Regie Wayne Wang Buch Yiyun Li Drehbuch Michael Ray Kamera Richard Wong Schnitt Deirdre Slevin Produzenten Yukie Kito Donald Young Ausführende Produzenten Yasushi Kotani Taizo Son Stephen Gong Produktion Center of Asian American Media Format 35mm, 1: 2.35, Farbe, Dolby Digital Länge 77min Originalsprache Englisch, Mandarin Nominationen an Festivals San Sebastian 2007, Toronto International 2007 2 cineworx 2. Kurzsynopsis «The Princess of Nebraska» zeigt vierundzwanzig Stunden im Leben einer schwangeren Teenagerin in San Francisco. Die Chinesin steht vor der Entscheidung, ob sie ihr Kind abtreiben soll oder nicht. Anders als früher in die USA immigrierte Generationen, orientiert sie sich nicht an moralischen und religiösen Vorbildern. Sie entscheidet in erster Linie für sich selber. Ein subtiler Film des chinesisch-amerikanischen Regisseurs Wayne Wang über Generationenkonflikte und den Wandel vom kommunistischen zum modernen, westlich geprägten China. «The Princess of Nebraska» bildet zusammen mit «A Thousand Years of Good Prayers» (ab Juli im Kino) ein filmisches Ensemble. 3. Synopsis Nach einem One-Night-Stand mit Yang, einem Sänger der Pekinger Oper, ist die 18-jährige Sasha schwanger. Sie unterbricht das College in Nebraska und reist nach San Francisco um ihr Kind abzutreiben. -
A N N U a L R E P O
2007 annual report 2006 WWW.ASIANAMERICANMEDIA.ORG Cover Image Credits left to right Tibet Hope Tre Na Kamalei: The Men of Hula The Princess of Nebraska New Year Baby Ken Leung The Learning Filmmaker Spencer Nakasako c o n t e n t s 2 from the executive director 4 note from the board chair 5 article: the making of the princess of nebraska 8 caam projects 2006–2007 14 article: the new face of the american electorate 18 highlights from the 25 th san francisco international asian american film festival 20 financial statements 24 thank you to our supporters 28 caam board & staff executive director’s year in review statement dear friends and members of caam: Greetings and welcome to our 2007 annual report! I’d like to share with you a personal recollection from the past year that stood out from so many memorable moments, and one that exemplifies our work, as it speaks to the history of Asian American filmmaking within the context of family, community and the larger society. Last March, as a special presentation of the 25th sfiaaff we presented the first public screening in more than 90 years of the first Chinese American feature film, The Curse Of Quon Gwon, directed by a remarkable woman named Marion Wong. The film dramatically tells the story of a young Chinese American bride (played by Marion Wong’s sister-in- law, Violet) and her ordeal to endure the jealousy and harsh treatment of her husband’s first wife (played, with steely relish by Marion Wong herself). Although never truly “lost”, as the film was always in the care of Wong family members, the film had nonetheless escaped the attention of film historians and archivists until word of its existence was passed on to filmmaker Arthur Dong during the research for his caam-supported documentary Hollywood Chinese. -
Thesis Sept 23 Final 2
University of Alberta Rachel Portman and The Joy Luck Club by Sylvia Jane Maltby A thesis submitted to the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Musicology Department of Music ©Sylvia Jane Maltby Fall 2011 Edmonton, Alberta Permission is hereby granted to the University of Alberta Libraries to reproduce single copies of this thesis and to lend or sell such copies for private, scholarly or scientific research purposes only. Where the thesis is converted to, or otherwise made available in digital form, the University of Alberta will advise potential users of the thesis of these terms. The author reserves all other publication and other rights in association with the copyright in the thesis and, except as herein before provided, neither the thesis nor any substantial portion thereof may be printed or otherwise reproduced in any material form whatsoever without the author's prior written permission. Library and Archives Bibliothèque et Canada Archives Canada Published Heritage Direction du Branch Patrimoine de l'édition 395 Wellington Street 395, rue Wellington Ottawa ON K1A 0N4 Ottawa ON K1A 0N4 Canada Canada Your file Votre référence ISBN: 978-0-494-90816-7 Our file Notre référence ISBN: 978-0-494-90816-7 NOTICE: AVIS: The author has granted a non- L'auteur a accordé une licence non exclusive exclusive license allowing Library and permettant à la Bibliothèque et Archives Archives Canada to reproduce, Canada de reproduire, publier, archiver, publish, archive, preserve, conserve, sauvegarder, conserver, transmettre au public communicate to the public by par télécommunication ou par l'Internet, prêter, telecommunication or on the Internet, distribuer et vendre des thèses partout dans le loan, distrbute and sell theses monde, à des fins commerciales ou autres, sur worldwide, for commercial or non- support microforme, papier, électronique et/ou commercial purposes, in microform, autres formats. -
In California
PACIFIC JACL continues its strong CITIZEN support of same-sex APAs want an apology for slant-eye photos. -PAGE 3 The National Publication of the Japanese American Citizens League 9/11 Seven Years Later: APA ,Leaders Say Civil, Human Rights is Needed for All JA leaders contiIiue to draw parallels between about being threatened with the death present day war policies and the WWII intern penalty. In his Navy brig solitary cell, he ment had to come to grips with being falsely convicted. "That was a reality for me." By LYNDA LIN All criminal charges against Vee were Assistant Editor eventually dropped and he received an honorable discharge in 2005 along with a It felt like just yesterday that James Vee was at Guantanamo. second Army Commendation medal for The 40-year-old former Muslim Army chaplain spent less than "exceptionally meritorious service." The a year at the infamous U.S. detention center, but the memories irony isn't lost on the Olympia, Wash. res still haunt him. Such is the typical experience of those who ident - he says his clean slate is proof come to know the place, especially for Vee who has been both that the military made a mistake. a minister to the prisoners and an accused terrorist spy. "I'm still expecting an official apolo It's been five years since Vee, a West Point graduate and third LOOK FAMIUAR?: Many say wartime policies at Gitmo are echoes of the past. gy," he said. But to get the U.S. to apolo generation Chinese American, was arrested Sept. -
The Global Chinese Presence in Transnational Cinemas
Kenneth Chan Hong Kong University Press The University of Hong Kong Pokfulam Road Hong Kong www.hkupress.org © Kenneth Chan 2009 ISBN 978-962-209-055-2 (Hardback) ISBN 978-962-209-056-9 (Paperback) All rights reserved. No portion of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any information storage or retrieval system, without prior permission in writing from the publisher. British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Printed and bound by ColorPrint Production Ltd. in Hong Kong, China Hong Kong University Press is honoured that Xu Bing, whose art explores the complex themes of language across cultures, has written the Press’s name in his Square Word Calligraphy. This signals our commitment to cross-cultural thinking and the distinctive nature of our English-language books published in China. “At first glance, Square Word Calligraphy appears to be nothing more unusual than Chinese characters, but in fact it is a new way of rendering English words in the format of a square so they resemble Chinese characters. Chinese viewers expect to be able to read Square Word Calligraphy but cannot. Western viewers, however are surprised to find they can read it. Delight erupts when meaning is unexpectedly revealed.” — Britta Erickson, The Art of Xu Bing Contents Acknowledgments vii 1 Introduction: Remaking Chinese Cinemas, Hollywood Style 1 2 Visualizing Hong Kong: -
A Film by Wayne Wang
***WORLD PREMIERE IN SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS CATEGORY AT THE 2019 TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL*** COMING HOME AGAIN A FILM BY WAYNE WANG STARRING PUBLIC SCREENINGS INTERNATIONAL SALES Justin Chon, Jackie Chung, John Lie Saturday, September 7th at 5:45PM at TIFF Bell Lightbox Asian Shadows & Christina July Kim Cinema 1 Maria A. Ruggieri Sunday, September 8th at 4:15PM at Scotiabank 3 Head Of Sales Thursday, September 12th at 2:30PM at Scotiabank 3 +39 333-66-406-88 DIRECTED BY [email protected] Wayne Wang *Ticket required Lya Li WRITTEN BY PRESS & INDUSTRY SCREENINGS Head Of Festivals +86 136-0272-1891 Wayne Wang & Chang-rae Lee Sunday, September 8th at 9:00AM at Scotiabank 9 [email protected] Wednesday, September 11th at 2:30PM at Scotiabank 8 BASED ON AN ESSAY BY *Must be accredited through the festival to attend US DOMESTIC SALES Chang-rae Lee Running Time – 88 Minutes ICM Partners Jessica Lacy PRODUCED BY PRESS CONTACTS (310) 550-4316 Donald Young & Naja Pham Lockwood Falco Ink. [email protected] Shannon Treusch (917) 225-7093 EXECUTIVE PRODUCED BY April Tonsil (610) 858-5763 Justin Chon, Stephen Gong, Eunei Lee, Heidi Levitt, Erica Abrams (610) 804-1662 Jean Noh & Susan Weeks [email protected] Based on a personal essay by Chang-rae Lee that was published in The New Yorker, Coming Home Again is an intimate family drama about a mother, a son, and the burden of family expectations. Chang-rae, a first generation Korean-American, has returned to his family home in San Francisco to care for his ailing mother. -
The Princess of Nebraska a Film by Wayne Wang the Match Factory Presents a Film by Wayne Wang “The Princess of Nebraska”
the princess of nebraska a film by wayne wang the match factory presents a film by wayne wang “the princess of nebraska” ZABALTEGI synopsis “The Princess of Nebraska” follows twenty-four hours in the life of Sasha, a San Francisco is a city full of paradoxes. It is poised between the East and the young Chinese woman who is four months pregnant as a result of a fling back in West, male and female, past and future, real and unreal. It is a city infamous for its Beijing. Interrupting her first year of college in Omaha, Nebraska, she travels to ever-changing morals, and most important for Sasha, its ever-shifting identities. San Francisco to abort the child and confront her lover’s male friend. Sasha befriends X, a karaoke bar-hostess who reminds her of Yang. As a romantic Sasha is pregnant as the result of a one-night stand with Yang, a “nan dan,” or tryst progresses, Sasha proposes to X that they travel the world together, but male actor who plays female roles in the Beijing Opera. Yang also had a liaison like so many of Sasha’s relationships, this one too crumbles in disappointment in Beijing with Boshen, a white American who was deported back to the United and despair. Struggling to comprehend the growing life inside her, Sasha’s States by the Chinese government, presumably for helping a Western journalist conviction starts to deteriorate, and she embraces an American concept she has on a story about AIDS. As a result of this scandal, Yang has been thrown out of just picked up, “moving on.” the opera troupe and onto the streets of Beijing, where Boshan has heard he now makes a living by hustling. -
University of Alberta
University of Alberta Rachel Portman and The Joy Luck Club by Sylvia Jane Maltby A thesis submitted to the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Musicology Department of Music ©Sylvia Jane Maltby Fall 2011 Edmonton, Alberta Permission is hereby granted to the University of Alberta Libraries to reproduce single copies of this thesis and to lend or sell such copies for private, scholarly or scientific research purposes only. Where the thesis is converted to, or otherwise made available in digital form, the University of Alberta will advise potential users of the thesis of these terms. The author reserves all other publication and other rights in association with the copyright in the thesis and, except as herein before provided, neither the thesis nor any substantial portion thereof may be printed or otherwise reproduced in any material form whatsoever without the author's prior written permission. ABSTRACT Rachel Portman is a successful female film score composer known for her rich orchestral scores, many for films that can be classified as women’s films. Portman has collaborated on several films with the Chinese-American film director Wayne Wang, who in many of his films has explored the issues of ethnicity, identity and family relationships, particularly Chinese-American identity and the reconciliation of the traditions of the old homeland with the culture of the new-found home in America. The most well known of these films is The Joy Luck Club (1993), based on the novel of the same name written by Amy Tan in 1989. -
American Film in the Digital
AMERICAN FILM IN THE DIGITAL AGE New Directions in Media Robin Andersen, Series Editor Blogging America: The New Public Sphere Aaron Barlow Celeb 2.0: How Social Media Foster Our Fascination with Popular Culture Kelli S. Burns Politics on Demand: The Effects of 24-Hour News on American Politics Alison Dagnes AMERICAN FILM IN THE DIGITAL AGE Robert C. Sickels New Directions in Media Robin Andersen, Series Editor Copyright 2011 by Robert C. Sickels All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, except for the inclusion of brief quotations in a review, without prior permission in writing from the publisher. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Sickels, Robert C. American fi lm in the digital age / Robert C. Sickels. p. cm. — (New directions in media) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-275-99862-2 (hard copy : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-275-99863-9 (ebook) 1. Motion pictures. 2. Motion picture industry. I. Title. PN1994.S532 2011 791.43 — dc22 2010034690 ISBN: 978-0-275-99862-2 EISBN: 978-0-275-99863-9 15 14 13 12 11 1 2 3 4 5 This book is also available on the World Wide Web as an eBook. Visit www.abc-clio.com for details. Praeger An Imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC ABC-CLIO, LLC 130 Cremona Drive, P.O. Box 1911 Santa Barbara, California 93116-1911 This book is printed on acid-free paper Manufactured in the United States of America The sun shines every day in Hollywood. -
Introduction: Remaking Chinese Cinemas, Hollywood Style
Introduction 1 1 Introduction: Remaking Chinese Cinemas, Hollywood Style When Ang Lee’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) leapt onto global screens, many saw it as a cinematic event that heralded the unprecedented arrival of Chinese cinemas in Hollywood. As part of the recent “Asian invasion”1 of the American multiplex, where mainstream audiences are now eagerly taking to the various Asian cinemas, this Chinese cultural presence dominated the invasion, thanks in part to the migration of numerous stars, directors, and various players from Hong Kong’s film industry: a professional diaspora spurred by the 1997 British handover of Hong Kong to mainland China. Since I began my research in 2000 on this then-emerging cinematic phenomenon, a recurring commentary I encounter is that this trend, like all Hollywood trends, is a transient one: the Chinese are only Tinseltown’s current cultural flavor of the month, soon to be replaced by the next big thing capable of revitalizing Hollywood (as Chinese cinemas are believed to be currently doing), thus rejuvenating and sustaining the studios’ capitalist productivity and hegemony. In engaging this prediction of the waning interest in Chinese kung fu flicks, sword-fighting spectacles, historical epics, supernatural thrillers, romance/family melodramas, and Chinatown crime stories, one cannot help but wonder how long Chinese cinemas can maintain their current pride of place in Hollywood’s multiculturalist approach to cultural appropriation and syncretism? What strategies can these cinemas resort to in order to achieve longevity in the business, and at what cost? I open with this notion of pop cultural “transience” in my study of the Chinese in Hollywood because it provokes a rather visceral response in me, as both a cultural and film critic; a response that I can only describe, with a deep sense of ambivalence and an eagerness to disavow, as “cultural nationalism.” Being an ethnic Chinese from Singapore, I find myself reluctantly cheering on the success of Chinese cinemas in Hollywood in a Copyright © 2009.