Chinese Film Festivals: Sites of Translation (Framing Film Festivals)

This book is the first anthology of research devoted to the booming world of Chinese film festivals, covering both mainstream and independent films. It also explores festivals in the Chinese-speaking world and festivals of Chinese films in the rest of the world. The book asks how Chinese film festivals function as sites of translation, translating Chinese culture to the world and world culture to Chinese-speaking audiences, and also how the international film festival model is being transformed as it is translated into the Chinese-speaking world. Part 1. Translating The Film Festival. Shanghai And Hong Kong: A Tale Of Two Festivals / Chris Berry -- Mature At Birth: The Beijing International Film Festival Between The National Film Industry And The Global Film Festival Circuit / Elena Pollacchi -- Culture Translation Between Local And International: The Golden Harvest Award In Taiwan / Ming-yeh T. Rawnsley -- Queer As Catachresis: The Beijing Queer Film Festival In Cultural Translation / Hongwei Bao-- The Beijing Independent Film Festival: Translating The Non-profit Model Into China / Flora Lichaa -- China's Sundance And Corporate Culture: Creating Space For Young Talent At The Tudou Video Festival / Nikki J.y. Lee And Julian Stringer -- What Can Small Festivals Do? Toward Film Festivals As Testimony To Expanded Civic Engagement In Post-handover Hong Kong / Esther C.m. Yau -- The China Independent Film Festival And Chinese Independent Film Festivals: Self Legitimization And Institutionalization / Sabrina Qiong Yu And Lydia Dan Wu -- Sole Traders, Cultural Brokers, And Chinese-language Film Festivals In The United Kingdom: The London Taiwan Cinefest And The Chinese Visual Festival / Luke Robinson. Part 2. Translating Culture. Yingying, Zhenzhen, And Fenfen? China At The Festivals / Dina Lordanova -- Programming China At The Hong Kong International Film Festival And The Shanghai International Film Festival / Ran Ma -- Clara Law's Red Earth: The Hong Kong International Film Festival And The Cultural Politics Of The Sponsored Short / Gina Marchetti -- Rural Films In An Urban Festival: Community Media And Cultural Translation At The Yunnan Multi Culture Visual Festival / Jenny Chio -- Translating The Margins: New Asian Cinema, Independent Cinema, And Minor Transnationalism At The Hong Kong Asian Film Festival / Su-anne Yeo -- Translating Chinese Film Festivals: Three Cases In New York / Cindy Hing-yuk Wong. Edited By Chris Berry And Luke Robinson. Front Matter....Pages i-xi Introduction....Pages 1-11 Front Matter....Pages 13-13 Shanghai and Hong Kong: A Tale of Two Festivals....Pages 15-33 “Mature at Birth”: The Beijing International Film Festival Between the National Film Industry and the Global Film Festival Circuit....Pages 35-55 Culture Translation Between “Local” and “International”: The Golden Harvest Award in Taiwan....Pages 57-78 Queer as Catachresis: The Beijing Queer Film Festival in Cultural Translation....Pages 79-100 The Beijing Independent Film Festival: Translating the Non-Profit Model into China....Pages 101-120 “China’s Sundance” and Corporate Culture: Creating Space for Young Talent at the Tudou Video Festival....Pages 121-140 What Can Small Festivals Do? Toward Film Festivals as Testimony to Expanded Civic Engagement in Post-Handover Hong Kong....Pages 141-167 The China Independent Film Festival and Chinese Independent Film Festivals: Self-Legitimization and Institutionalization....Pages 169-191 Sole Traders, Cultural Brokers, and Chinese-Language Film Festivals in the United Kingdom: The London Taiwan Cinefest and the Chinese Visual Festival....Pages 193-213 Front Matter....Pages 215-215 Yingying, Zhenzhen, and Fenfen? China at the Festivals....Pages 217-235 Programming China at the Hong Kong International Film Festival and the Shanghai International Film Festival....Pages 237-257 Clara Law’s Red Earth: The Hong Kong International Film Festival and the Cultural Politics of the Sponsored Short....Pages 259-277 Rural Films in an Urban Festival: Community Media and Cultural Translation at the Yunnan Multi Culture Visual Festival....Pages 279-299 Translating the Margins: New Asian Cinema, Independent Cinema, and Minor Transnationalism at the Hong Kong Asian Film Festival....Pages 301-320 Translating Chinese Film Festivals: Three Cases in New York....Pages 321-342 Back Matter....Pages 343-376