China Into Film: Frames of Reference in Contemporary Chinese Cinema

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Reaktion Books, 1999 - 351 pagini
Since 1984, Chinese cinema has been the most dramatic entry onto the international film scene. China into Film is the first book to look at contemporary Chinese cinema as a visual art and to illustrate the ways in which it has been shaped by centuries of Chinese tradition. Jerome Silbergeld looks at the significance of gender roles, the strategies of film-makers in coping with state censorship, the translation of novels into films, the continuing attachment of film-makers to melodrama, and cinematic critiques of Maoism and post-Maoist culture.

Abundantly illustrated with Chinese paintings as well as scenes from such internationally acclaimed films as Yellow Earth, Red Sorghum, Raise the Red Lantern and Farewell My Concubine, China into Film reveals a cinematic form at once excitingly new and deeply imbedded in traditional Chinese visual culture.

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Preface
7
Yellow Earth and the Traditionalism
15
Red Sorghum
53
Allegory Goes to the Movies
96
Victims Warriors and the Female
132
Melodrama in the Postmodern Era
188
Nodrama Pseudodrama
234
Film Credits
305
Bibliography
341
Photographic Acknowledgements
348
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Jerome Silbergeld is Professor of Art History at the University of Washington, Seattle, and the author of several books on twentieth-century Chinese painting.

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