Chinese Films in Focus II

CHRIS BERRY is Professor of Film and Television Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK.  He is the author and editor of many books, including Cinema and the National: China on Screen (co-authored with Mary Farquhar, Columbia University Press and Hong Kong University Press, 2006) and Postsocialist Cinema in Post-Mao China: The Cultural Revolution after the Cultural Revolution (Routledge, 2004).

• Introduction: One Film at a Time; C. Berry.- 15: Deciphering the Local and 'Slanging Up' to the Global; S. Hwee Lim.- Big Shot's Funeral: Performing a Postmodern Cinema of Attractions; Y. Zhang.- Black Cannon Incident: Countering the Counterespionage Fantasy; J. McGrath.- Blind Shaft: Underground as Trope; J. Noble.- Boat People: Second Thoughts on Text and Context; J. Stringer.- Centre Stage: A Shadow in Reverse; B. Reynaud.- A Chinese Ghost Story: Ghostly Counsel and Innocent Man; J. Zou.- Chungking Express: Time and its Displacements; J. Tong.- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Cultural Migrancy and Translatability; F. Chan.- Crows and Sparrows: Allegory on a Historical Threshold; Y. Wang.- Durian, Durian: Defamiliarisation of the 'Real'; E. Cheung.- Ermo: (Tele)Visualizing Urban/Rural Transformation; P. Fu.- Farewell My Concubine: National Myth and City Memories; Y. Braester.- Flowers of Shanghai: Visualizing Ellipses and (Colonial) Absence; G. Gary Xu.- Formula 17: Mainstream in the Margins; B. Hu.- The Goddess: Fallen Woman of Shanghai; K. Harris.- Hero: The Return of a Traditional Masculine Ideal in China; K. Louie.- In The Mood for Love: Intersections of Hong Kong Modernity; A. Yue.- Kekexili: Mountain Patrol—Moral Dilemma and a Man with a Camera; S. Cui.- Love Eterne: Almost a (Heterosexual) Love Story; T. See Kam and A. Aw.- Not One Less: The Fable of a Migration; R. Chow.- The Personals: Backward Glances, Knowing Looks, and the Voyeur Film; M. Hillenbrand.- PTU: Re-mapping the Cosmopolitan Crime Zone; V. Lee.- The Red Detachment of Women: Resenting, Regendering, Remembering; R. Chi.- Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles: Redeeming the Father by Way of Japan; F. Hui Xiao.- Spring in a Small Town: Gazing at Ruins; C. FitzGerald.- Suzhou River: Visual Fetishism and the Defamiliarisation of Shanghai; A. C.Y. Huang.- A Time to Live, A Time to Die: A Time to Grow; C. Neri.- A Touch of Zen: Action in Martial Arts Movies; M. Farquhar.- Vive L'Amour: Eloquent Emptiness; F. Martin.- Wedding Banquet: A Family Affair; C. Berry.- Woman, Demon, Human:  The Spectral Journey Home; H. Lee.- Xiao Wu: Watching Time Go By; C. Berry.- Yellow Earth:  Hesitant Apprenticeship and Bitter Agency; H. Hok-Sze Leung.- Yi Yi: Reflections on Reflexive Modernity in Taiwan; D. Leiwei Li.