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An Amorous History of the Silver Screen: Shanghai Cinema, 1896-1937
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An Amorous History of the Silver Screen: Shanghai Cinema, 1896-1937, Zhang Zhen (2005) Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 456 pp., ISBN 0226982386 (pbk), $30.00, ISBN 0226982378 (hbk), $75.00
SINCE THE EARLY 1990s, a number of excellent books, such as Leo Charney and Vanessa Schwartz's edited collection Cinema and the Invention of Modern Life (University of California Press, 1995), have situated the birth of cinema in the complex social and cultural context of modernity. These studies have provided early film scholarship with new interdisciplinary methodologies and an acute attention to ...
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An Amorous History of the Silver Screen: Shanghai Cinema, 1896-1937.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Cineaste
; An Amorous History of the Silver Screen: Shanghai Cinema, 1896-1937 by Zhang Zhen...film scholar Zhang Zhen is up to the task. Her landmark book, An Amorous History of the Silver Screen: Shanghai Cinema, 1896-1937, takes on the...
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Becoming a part of life: an interview with Zhang Yimou. (Interview)
Magazine article from: Cineaste
; ...by hardline bureaucrats who dominated Chinese film culture following the 1989 Beijing massacres...independence only made worse his relations with Chinese film authorities. Zhang Yimou's most recent...Zhang Yimou: At that time the whole Chinese film industry was changing. The ...
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(movie review)
Magazine article from: The Christian Century
; ...citizens stand in long lines to pick up tickets to a sold-out Chinese film at 10 on a Saturday morning. Critics, flashing their media...rainy afternoon. A different kind of mother is shown in the Chinese film Breaking the Silence, directed by Sun Zhou. It features a...
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The Chinese Cinema in the Reform Era.
Magazine article from: Journal of Popular Film and Television
; ...traced the historical development of the Chinese film industry by highlighting its major changes...society in the reform era. The Changing Chinese Film Industry It did not take long for film...Beijing opera, was shot. By the 1930s, the Chinese film industry, mainly based in ...
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Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles.(Movie review)
Magazine article from: Cineaste
; ...in the realm of 'ideology.' Like many similar comments the Chinese film director has made over the years, this one is ambiguous and...Golden Bear at the 1988 Berlin Film Festival and propelled Chinese film onto the map of contemporary world cinema. So many of Zhang...
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China on show at film festival.
Newspaper article from: The Star (Sheffield) (Sheffield, England)
; A TASTE of the Orient will arrive in Sheffield next month - when a Chinese Film Festival comes to the city's Showroom cinema. China Now, the UK's largest ever festival of Chinese culture, will be bringing Chinese...
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30 years of the Cairo Film Fest.(WORLD)
Magazine article from: Video Age International
; ...dazzling ceremony celebrating its 30th year, as well as its first time co-sponsorship with Cairo-based Telco giant Orascom. Chinese film The Road, by Zhang Jiarui, won the top Golden Pyramid prize. Latin America was the guest of honor country with 17 films and...
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China on Screen.(Brief article)(Book review)
Newspaper article from: Wisconsin Bookwatch
; ...Columbia University Press 61 West 62nd Street, NY, NY 10023-7015 www.columbiaedu/cu/cup 0231137079 $24.50 1-800-944-8648 Chinese film studies experts Chris Berry and Mary Farquhar present China On Screen: Cinema And Nation, an exploration of more than one...
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CHINA: GOVT TO IMPLEMENT NEW FILM INDUSTRY REFORM POLICY.(Brief Article)
Newspaper article from: IPR Strategic Business Information Database
; ...Government has given overseas and domestic investors the green light to enter the distribution and exhibition sectors of the Chinese film industry. This new policy was made public in a circular entitled Instructions on Deepening the Reform of China's Film Industry...
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Sinascape; contemporary Chinese cinema.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News
; ...Littlefield 2007 175 pages $24.95 Paperback PN1993 The author uses the term sinascape to encompass the transnational network of the Chinese film industry, the film industry's representation of China, and films as they pertain to mediation, transnationalism, nationalism...
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