Chinese cinema is the only non-English language cinema to have a
significant global presence. From multiplex blockbusters like Ang
Lee s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon to festival hits such as Jia
Zhangke s Still Life, Chinese cinema succeeds like no other
foreign-language cinema. The interdisciplinary field of Chinese
Cinema Studies has boomed alongside these developments and, today,
no Asian Studies, Chinese Studies, or Film and Media Studies
programme is complete without courses that cover Chinese cinema,
including the cinemas of the People s Republic of China, Hong Kong,
Taiwan, and the wider Chinese diaspora.
While research in and around Chinese cinema flourishes as never
before, not least because of its highly interdisciplinary nature,
much of the relevant literature remains inaccessible or is highly
specialized and compartmentalized, so that it is difficult for many
of those who are interested in the subject to obtain an informed,
balanced, and comprehensive overview. This new four-volume
collection from Routledge s acclaimed series, Critical Concepts in
Media and Cultural Studies, addresses that problem and meets the
need for a reference work to help make sense of the subject s vast
and widely dispersed literature, and the continuing explosion in
research output.
The materials gathered by the editor, a leading scholar in the
field, include major works that explore: aesthetics through key
films and directors; film cultural practices, such as consumption,
distribution, exhibition, reception and criticism; production
practices, for instance, genres, stars, studio structures, and
marketing; and cinema s connection to society and its relationship
to issues such as the nation-state, revolution, and gender. The
collection s temporal scope extends from the arrival of cinema via
the Lumiere Brothers in 1895 to the present day, and it ranges
widely across all territories to include full coverage of the films
produced by the ethnic Chinese diaspora.
Chinese Cinema is supplemented by a full index and chronological
tables of contents. It also includes an introduction, newly written
by the editor, which places the gathered materials in their
historical and intellectual context.
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