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Remaking Chinese Cinema
Yiman Wang
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Hardcover. From melodrama to Cantonese opera, from silent to 3D animated film, Remaking Chinese Cinema traces cross-Pacific film remaking over the last eight decades. Through the refractive prism of Hollywood, Shanghai, and Hong Kong, Yiman Wang revolutionizes our u Num Pages: 264 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1FPCH; APFN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
From melodrama to Cantonese opera, from silents to 3D animated film, Remaking Chinese Cinema traces cross-Pacific film remaking over the last eight decades. Through the refractive prism of Hollywood, Shanghai, and Hong Kong, Yiman Wang revolutionises our understanding of Chinese cinema as national cinema. Against the diffusion model of national cinema spreading from a central point—Shanghai in the Chinese case—she argues for a multi-local process of co-constitution and reconstitution. In this spirit, Wang analyses how southern Chinese cinema (huanan dianying) morphed into Hong Kong cinema through trans-regional and trans-national interactions that also produced a vision of Chinese cinema.
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From melodrama to Cantonese opera, from silents to 3D animated film, Remaking Chinese Cinema traces cross-Pacific film remaking over the last eight decades. Through the refractive prism of Hollywood, Shanghai, and Hong Kong, Yiman Wang revolutionises our understanding of Chinese cinema as national cinema. Against the diffusion model of national cinema spreading from a central point—Shanghai in the Chinese case—she argues for a multi-local process of co-constitution and reconstitution. In this spirit, Wang analyses how southern Chinese cinema (huanan dianying) morphed into Hong Kong cinema through trans-regional and trans-national interactions that also produced a vision of Chinese cinema.
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Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Hawai'i Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Honolulu, HI, United States
ISBN
9780824836078
SKU
V9780824836078
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About Yiman Wang
Yiman Wang is assistant professor of film and digital media at the University of California, Santa Cruz, USA.
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