Celluloid China: Cinematic Encounters with Culture and Society - Hardcover

Kuoshu, Harry H.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0809324555 ISBN 13: 9780809324552

Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press, 2002

Synopsis

Celluloid China: Cinematic Encounters with Culture and Society by Harry H. Kuoshu is a lucid introduc­tion to the cinema of mainland China from the early 1930s to the early 1990s.

 

Emphasizing both film contexts and film texts, this study invites film scholars and students to a broad cinematic analysis that includes investigations of cultural, cross-cultural, intellectual, social, ethnic, and political issues. Such a holistic evaluation allows for a better understanding of both the genesis of a special kind of film art from the People’s Republic of China and the culture exemplified in those films.

 

The fifteen films include: Two Stage Sisters; Hibis­cus Town; Farewell My Concubine; Street Angel; Three Women; Human, Woman, Demon; Judou; Girl from Hunan; Sacrificed Youth; Horse Thief; Yellow Earth; Old Well; Red Sorghum; Black Cannon Incident; and Good Morning, Beijing.

 

Discussions of each film have an introduction, passages from the director’s own notes whenever available, and a scholarly article. Discussion ques­tions are found in an appendix. Within its complete bibliography, the book also features a suggested read­ing list for Chinese film classes.

 

Celluloid China: Cinematic Encounters with Cul­ture and Society is the first book to provide such an exhaustive study of the art and cultural context of Chinese cinema.

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About the Author

Harry H. Kuoshu, aka Haixin Xu, is an assistant pro­fessor of cinema studies and modern languages at Northeastern University, where he teaches Chinese film, culture, and language. He is the author of Light­ness of Being in China: Adaptation and Discursive Figuration in Cinema and Theater.

About this edition

• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0809324555
• ISBN 13: 9780809324552
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 400