Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes filmography (pages 628-654).

Front Matter -- General Introduction / Yingjin Zhang -- History and Geography. Transplanting Melodrama / Zhang Zhen -- Artists, Cadres, and Audiences / Paul Clark -- Directors, Aesthetics, Genres / Yingjin Zhang -- Hong Kong Cinema Before 1980 / Robert Chi -- The Hong Kong New Wave / Gina Marchetti -- Gender Negotiation in Song Cunshou's and Taiwan Cinema of the Early 1970s / James Wicks -- Second Coming / Darrell William Davis -- Industry and Institution. Propaganda and Censorship in Chinese Cinema / Matthew D Johnson -- Chinese Media Capital in Global Context / Michael Curtin -- Film and Society in China / Stanley Rosen -- Vulnerable Chinese Stars / Sabrina Qiong Yu -- Ports of Entry / Nikki J Y Lee, Julian Stringer -- Genre and Representation. In Search of Chinese Film Style(s) and Technique(s) / James Udden -- Film Genre and Chinese Cinema / Stephen Teo -- Performing Documentation / Qi Wang -- Chinese Women's Cinema / Lingzhen Wang -- From Urban Films to Urban Cinema / Yomi Braester -- Arts and Media. The Intertwinement of Chinese Film and Literature / Liyan Qin -- Diary of a Homecoming: (Dis- )Inhabiting the Theatrical in Postwar Shanghai Cinema / Weihong Bao -- Cinema and the Visual Arts of China / Jerome Silbergeld -- From Mountain Songs to Silvery Moonlight / Jerome Silbergeld -- Cross-Fertilization in Chinese Cinema and Television / Ying Zhu, Bruce Robinson -- Chinese Cinema and Technology / Gary G Xu -- Issues and Debates. Chinese Film Scholarship in Chinese / Chen Xihe -- Chinese Film Scholarship in English / Chris Berry -- The Return of the Repressed / Shuqin Cui -- Homosexuality and Queer Aesthetics / Helen Hok-Sze Leung -- Alter-centering Chinese Cinema / Yiman Wang -- The Absent American: Figuring the United States in Chinese Cinema of the Reform Era / Michael Berry -- Bibliography -- Filmography -- Index.

General introduction / Yingjin Zhang -- History and geography. Transplanting melodrama: observations on the emergence of early Chinese narrative film / Zhang Zhen -- Artists, cadres and audiences: Chinese Socialist cinema, 1949-1978 / Paul Clark -- Directors, aesthetics, genres: Chinese postsocialist cinema, 1979-2010 / Yingjin Zhang -- Hong Kong cinema before 1980 / Robert Chi -- The Hong Kong new wave / Gina Marchetti -- Gender negotiation in Song Cunshou's Story of mother and Taiwan cinema of the early 1970s / James Wicks -- Second coming: the legacy of Taiwan New cinema / Darrell William Davis -- Industry and Institution. Propaganda and censorship in Chinese cinema / Matthew D. Johnson -- Chinese media capital in global context / Michael Curtin -- Film and society in China: the logic of the market / Stanley Rosen -- Vulnerable Chinese stars: from Xizi to Film Worker / Sabrina Qiong Yu -- Ports of entry: mapping Chinese cinema's multiple trajectories at international film festivals / Nikki J.Y. Lee and Julian Stringer -- Genre and representation. In search of Chinese film style(s) and technique(s) / James Udden -- Film genre and Chinese cinema: a discourse of film and nation / Stephen Teo -- Performing documentation: Wu Wenguang and the performative turn of new Chinese documentary / Qi Wang -- Chinese women's cinema / Lingzhen Wang -- From urban films to urban cinema: the emergence of a critical concept / Yomi Braester -- Arts and media. The intertwinement of Chinese film and literature: choices and strategies in adaptations / Liyan Qin -- Diary of a homecoming: (dis- )inhabiting the theatrical in postwar Shanghai cinema / Weihong Bao -- Cinema and the visual arts of China / Jerome Silbergeld -- From mountain songs to silvery moonlight: some notes on music in Chinese cinema / Jerome Silbergeld -- Cross-fertilization in Chinese cinema and television: a strategic turn in cultural policy / Ying Zhu and Bruce Robinson -- Chinese cinema and technology / Gary G. Xu -- Issues and debates. Chinese film scholarship in Chinese / Chen Xihe -- Chinese film scholarship in English / Chris Berry -- The return of the repressed: masculinity and sexuality reconsidered / Shuqin Cui -- Homosexuality and queer aesthetics / Helen Hok-Sze Leung -- Alter-centering Chinese cinema: the diasporic formation / Yiman Wang -- The absent American: figuring the United States in Chinese cinema of the Reform Era / Michael Berry.

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