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Futures of Chinese Cinema
Technologies and Temporalities in Chinese Screen Cultures
In recent years, Chinese film has garnered worldwide attention, and this interdisciplinary collection investigates how new technologies, changing production constraints, and shifting viewing practices have shaped perceptions of Chinese screen cultures. For the first time, international scholars from film studies, media studies, history and sociology have come together to examine technology and temporality in Chinese cinema today.
Futures of Chinese Cinema takes an innovative approach, arguing for a broadening of Chinese screen cultures to account for new technologies of screening, from computers and digital video to smaller screens (including mobile phones). It also considers time and technology in both popular blockbusters and independent art films from mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and the Chinese diasporas. The contributors explore transnational connections, including little-discussed Chinese-Japanese and Sino-Soviet interactions. With an exciting array of essays by established and emerging scholars, Futures of Chinese Cinema represents a fresh contribution to film and cultural studies.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Sean Metzger and Olivia Khoo
Part I: Historiography
Chapter 1
Celebratory Screens: Chinese Cinema in the New Millennium
Dai Jinhua
Chapter2
Island of No Return: Cinematic Narration as Retrospection in Wang Tong and New Taiwan Cinema
Guo-Juin Hong
Chapter 3
Socialist Geographies, Internationalist Temporalities and Travelling Film Technologies: Sino-Soviet Film Exchange in the 1950s and 1960s
Tina Mai Chen
Chapter 4
Hong Kong Ghost in the Japanese Shell? Cross-racial Performance and Transnational Chinese Cinema
Kwai-Cheung Lo
Chapter 5
Jia Zhangke and the Temporality of Postsocialist Chinese Cinema: In the Now (and then)
Chris Berry
Part II: Capital - Economic and Industrial Contexts
Chapter 6
From BitTorrent Piracy to Creative Industries: Hong Kong Cinema Emptied Out
Laikwan Pang
Chapter 7
Genre Film, Media Corporations and the Commercialization of the Chinese Film Industry: The Case of ‘New Year Comedies’
Shuyu Kong
Chapter 8
Demand for Cultural Representation: Emerging Independent Film and Video on Lesbian Desires
Denise Tse Shang Tang
Part III: Epistemologies
Chapter 9
The Queer Space of China: Expressive Desire in Stanley Kwan’s Lan Yu
David L. Eng
Chapter 10
Saving Face, or the Future Perfect of Queer Chinese/American Cinema?
Sean Metzger
Chapter 11
Remaking the Past, Interrupting the Present: The Spaces of Technology and Futurity in Contemporary Chinese Blockbusters
Olivia Khoo
Chapter 12
Multiple-screen Realities
Paolo Voci
Contributors
Index