Chinese National Cinema

• Main Author: Zhang, Yingjin
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: New York Routledge 2004; Taylor and Francis; Taylor & Francis Group
• Edition: 1
• Series: National Cinemas
• Subjects: China; Cinema; Cultural history; Cultural policy; Cultural Studies; Film Studies; History; Motion pictures; Motion pictures - Taiwan - History; Motion pictures > China > History; Taiwan; CCP Leadership; China Motion Pictures; Martial Arts Pictures; Chinese Cinema; CCP Regime; Civilized Play; Golden Horse Awards; Taiwan Cinema; Fei Mu; Mandarin Cinema; Cantonese Cinema; Shi Dongshan; Li Xing; Opera Movie; Zhang Shichuan; Yuan Muzhi; Forbidden City; Zheng Zhengqiu; Art Cinema; Li Hanxiang; ZDZ 1996a; Ruan Lingyu; Golden Harvest; Shaw Brothers; Wu Xun
• DOI: 10.4324/9780203645833
• ISBN: 0415172896; 9780415172905; 041517290X; 9780415172899

This introduction to Chinese national cinema covers three 'Chinas': mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. Historical and comparative perspectives bring out the parallel developments in these three Chinas, while critical analysis explores thematic and stylistic changes over time. As well as exploring artistic achievements and ideological debates, Yingjin Zhang examines how - despite the pressures placed on the industry from state control and rigid censorship - Chinese national cinema remains incapable of projecting a single unified picture, but rather portrays many different Chinas. 'A remarkable scholarly achievement, evidenced by the author's extensive research, encyclopedic knowledge of his subject and refreshing interpretations of the major trends and developments in Chinese film history ... this book establishes Zhang as the undisputed authority on Chinese cinema in the West.' - Zhiwei Xiao, California State University 'A model of forward-looking scholarship, and a superb addition to the National Cinemas series ... eminently suited to adoption on courses at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.' - Julian Stringer, University of Nottingham, UK 'All in all, Chinese National Cinema is a masterly synthesis of a vast subject.' - The China Journal 1. Introduction: National Cinema and China 2. Cinema and National Traditions, 1905-29 3. Cinema and the Nation-People, 1930-49 4. Cinematic Reinvention of the National, 1945,78 5. Cinematic Revival of the Regional, 1945-78 6. Cinema and the Nation-State, 1949-78 7. Cinema and National/Regional Cultures, 1979-89 8. Cinema and the Transnational Imaginary, 1990-2002