In "China on Screen," Chris Berry and Mary Farquhar, leaders in
the field of Chinese film studies, explore more than one hundred
years of Chinese cinema and nation. Providing new perspectives on
key movements, themes, and filmmakers, Berry and Farquhar analyze
the films of a variety of directors and actors, including Chen
Kaige, Zhang Yimou, Hou Hsiao Hsien, Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, Maggie
Cheung, Gong Li, Wong Kar-wai, and Ang Lee. They argue for the
abandonment of "national cinema" as an analytic tool and propose
"cinema and the national" as a more productive framework. With this
approach, they show how movies from China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and
the Chinese diaspora construct and contest different ideas of
Chinese nation -- as empire, republic, or ethnicity, and
complicated by gender, class, style, transnationalism, and more.
Among the issues and themes covered are the tension between
operatic and realist modes, male and female star images,
transnational production and circulation of Chinese films, the
image of the good foreigner -- all related to different ways of
imagining nation. Comprehensive and provocative, "China on Screen"
is a crucial work of film analysis.
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