Hong Kong Cinema and Sinophone Transnationalisms

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

Av See Kam Tan, University of Macau) Tan, See Kam (Associate Professor

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Hong Kong Cinema and Sinophone Transnationalisms explores the intricate complexity of selected films and film-making practices from 1930s Hong Kong (and Shanghai) to the later 'new wave' phenomenon of the 1980s. The result is a Sinophone cinema that created some very different ways of understanding 'China' and 'Chineseness', developing their own 'cosmopolitan dreaming' within the cultural and economic changes of those times. Exploring sinification and its multiple manifestations in film, the book examines cinematic genres including Huangmei Opera films, qiqing (strange or queer romance) films, fanchuaners (professional cross-sex performers) in film, Hong Kong's Bond Movies (bangpian), erotic (fengyue) films, and New Wave Hong Kong cinema. In doing so, this book lays fruitful foundations for further understanding the development and changing faces of Hong Kong films and sinophone transnationalism in the even more complex and changing times of today.

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Utgivningsdatum2021-10-20
Mått156 x 234 x 28 mm
Vikt692 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieEdinburgh Studies in East Asian Film
Antal sidor368
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
ISBN9781474476362

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Acknowledgements A Note on LanguageGlossary I: Chinese-language Film TitlesGlossary II: Chinese-language Names (Persons, Film Companies, etc.)Glossary III: Chinese-language Terms and PhrasesIllustrationsPreface I NEW BEGINNINGSChapter One - Locating Sinophone Cinema Chapter Two – The Sinification of Early Shanghai and Hong Kong Cinema II NEW DIRECTIONS Chapter Three - Huangmei diao pian Chapter Four - Caizi/Jiaren Romance in Disguise Chapter Five - Fanchuan Acting: Cross-dressing and Performative Transexualities III NEW IMAGINARIESChapter Six - Tongzhi Articulations in Fengyue Films Chapter Seven - Transness: Hong Kong’s Bond Movies (Bangpian) IV NEW WAVESChapter Eight - Tsui Hark: Accented Cinema Chapter Nine - Tsui Hark: Time-Bomb Cinema Chapter Ten - Tsui Hark: New Localisms AfterwordAppendix - A Selection of Chinese-language Opera Film Avatars Filmography and TV ResourcesReferences

Tan offers a welcome and insightful survey of Hong Kong and Shanghai cinema from the 1930s to the 1980s, arguing for changing concepts of “nation,” “China,” and “Chineseness.” [...] The book offers a thorough analysis of Sinophone culture and cinema through a nonessentialist lens, resulting in a model for transnational cinema studies, rejecting the “nation” as a model for organization. Recommended.