Citing China : politics, postmodernism, and world cinema /
Citing China explores the role film plays in creating a common ground for the exchange of political and aesthetic ideas between China and the rest of the world. It does so by examining the depiction of China in contemporary film, looking at how global filmmakers "cite" China on screen. Aut...
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Honolulu :
University of Hawaiʻi Press,
[2018]
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| Series: | Critical interventions (Honolulu, Hawaii)
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : hot air and high hopes in world cinema
- Storms over Asia : Mongolia, montage aesthetics, and Jia Zhangke's The world
- Bicycle thieves and pickpockets : Jia Zhangke's Xiao Wu and Patrick Tam's After this our exile
- Brecht in Hong Kong cinema : Ann Hui's Ordinary heroes and Evans Chan's The life and times of Wu Zhongxian
- Les maoïstes, les chinoises, and Jean-Pierre Léaud : China, France, and the sexual politics of the cultural revolution
- Dragons in diaspora : the politics of race in Bruce Lee's Way of the dragon and Louis Leterrier's Danny the dog
- Citing the American dream in the People's Republic of China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong : Clara Law's Like a dream and Red earth
- Conclusion : cinematic citations and the circulation of Chinese-language motion pictures.