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. With The Burgeoning Interest In Chinese Film, This Interdisciplinary Collection Investigates How New Technologies, Changing Production Constraints And Shifting Viewing Practices Have Shaped Perceptions Of Chinese Screen Cultures. Futures Of Chinese Cinema Contains Essays By International Scholars Considering New Directions In Chinese Cinema. After The Devastation Of The Economic Crisis, The Uncertainty Of The Hong Kong Handover And The Events At Tiananmen Square In 1989, The Late Twentieth Century And Beyond Has Seen The Emergence Of A Number Of Fresh New Works From The Region's Film-makers. For The First Time, Scholars From Film Studies, Media Studies, History And Sociology Have Been Brought Together In Their Focus On The Concepts Of Technology And Temporality In These Films.--back Cover. Celebratory Screens: Chinese Cinema In The New Millennium -- Island Of No Return: Cinematic Narration As Retrospection In Wang Tong And New Taiwan Cinema -- Socialist Geographies, Internationalist Temporalities And Travelling Film Technologies: Sino-soviet Film Exchange In The 1950s And 1960s -- Hong Kong Ghost In The Japanese Shell? Cross-racial Performance And Transnational Chinese Cinema -- Jia Zhangke And The Temporality Of Postsocialist Chinese Cinema: In The Now (and Then) -- From Bittorrent Piracy To Creative Industries: Hong Kong Cinema Emptied Out -- Genre Film, Media Corporations And The Commercialization Of The Chinese Film Industry: The Case Of 'new Year Comedies' -- Demand For Cultural Representation: Emerging Independent Film And Video On Lesbian Desires -- The Queer Space Of China: Expressive Desire In Stanley Kwan's Lan Yu -- Saving Face, Or The Future Perfect Of Queer Chinese/american Cinema? -- Remaking The Past, Interrupting The Present: The Spaces Of Technology And Futurity In Contemporary Chinese Blockbusters -- Multiple-screen Realities. Edited By Olivia Khoo And Sean Metzger. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Preliminary Pages 2 Contents 6 Acknowledgements 10 Introduction 12 Part I: Historiography 36 Chapter 1: Celebratory Screens: Chinese Cinema in the New Millennium 38 Chapter 2: Island of No Return: Cinematic Narration as Retrospection in Wang Tongand New Taiwan Cinema 58 Chapter 3: Socialist Geographies, Internationalist Temporalities and Travelling FilmTechnologies: Sino-Soviet Film Exchange in the 1950s and 1960s 74 Chapter 4: Hong Kong Ghost in the Japanese Shell? Cross-racial Performance andTransnational Chinese Cinema 96 Chapter 5: Jia Zhangke and the Temporality of Postsocialist Chinese Cinema: In the Now (and then) 112 Part II: Capital – Economic and Industrial Contexts 130 Chapter 6: From BitTorrent Piracy to Creative Industries: Hong Kong Cinema Emptied Out 132 Chapter 7: Genre Film, Media Corporations and the Commercialization of the Chinese Film Industry: The Case of ‘New Year Comedies’ 148 Chapter 8: Demand for Cultural Representation: Emerging Independent Film and Video on Lesbian Desires 170 Part III: Epistemologies 192 Chapter 9: The Queer Space of China: Expressive Desire in Stanley Kwan’s Lan Yu 194 Chapter 10: Saving Face, or the Future Perfect of Queer Chinese/American Cinema? 224 Chapter 11: Remaking the Past, Interrupting the Present: The Spaces of Technology and Futurity in Contemporary Chinese Blockbusters 242 Chapter 12: Multiple-screen Realities 264 Contributors 278 Index 284 "With the burgeoning interest in Chinese film, this interdisciplinary collection investigates how new technologies, changing production constraints and shifting viewing practices have shaped perceptions of Chinese screen cultures. Futures of Chinese Cinema contains essays by international scholars considering new directions in Chinese cinema. After the devastation of the economic crisis, the uncertainty of the Hong Kong handover and the events at Tiananmen Square in 1989, the late twentieth century and beyond has seen the emergence of a number of fresh new works from the region's film-makers. For the first time, scholars from film studies, media studies, history and sociology have been brought together in their focus on the concepts of technology and temporality in these films."--Page 4 of cover