Chinese Connections
Critical Perspectives on Film, Identity, and Diaspora
Gina Marchetti editor See Kam Tan editor Peter X Feng editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Temple University Press,U.S.
Published:15th Jan '09
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
An anthology that provides a prismatic look at the cross-fertilization between Chinese film and global popular culture. It explores how issues of immigration, class, race and economic displacement are viewed on a global level, providing an understanding of the impact of Chinese filmmaking at home and abroad.How Chinese cinema and global Chinese culture intersect over questions of identity
"According to its editors...Chinese Connections blazes a new trail, and it is easy to agree with them... At times, the eclecticism of the contributions threatens to thwart the attempts of the book's editors to impose order; but in a sense, it is the sheer scope and number of its essays which furnish this volume with its core strength. Chinese Connections contains 19 chapters in a volume just shy of 300 pages; and these pieces manage to cover essential films and essential filmmakers at the same time as straying into less tried terrain in stimulating ways. The result is a volume that has something to say to everyone from undergraduates to film specialists. Indeed, although the last few years have seen the publication of several high-quality, broad-sweep volumes on Chinese film - both nationally and transnationally - few have quite the reach and range of this one." - The China Quarterly
ISBN: 9781592132676
Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 33mm
Weight: unknown
320 pages