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farewell my concubine
film
filmmakers
gender roles
government power
hibiscus town
historical studies
horse thief
international world
maoism
melodrama
movies
moving pictures
old well
post-maoist culture
raise the red lantern
sacrificed youth
state censorship
story of qiu ju
temptress moon
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yellow earth
Product details
- ISBN 9781861890504
- Publication Date: 01 Nov 1999
- Publisher: Reaktion Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Since 1984, Chinese cinema has been the most dramatic entry onto the international film scene. China into Film is the first book to look at contemporary Chinese cinema as a visual art and to illustrate the ways in which it has been shaped by centuries of Chinese tradition. Jerome Silbergeld looks at the significance of gender roles, the strategies of film-makers in coping with state censorship, the translation of novels into films, the continuing attachment of film-makers to melodrama, and cinematic critiques of Maoism and post-Maoist culture.
Abundantly illustrated with Chinese paintings as well as scenes from such internationally acclaimed films as Yellow Earth, Red Sorghum, Raise the Red Lantern and Farewell My Concubine, China into Film reveals a cinematic form at once excitingly new and deeply imbedded in traditional Chinese visual culture.
Jerome Silbergeld is Professor of Art History at the University of Washington, Seattle, and the author of several books on twentieth-century Chinese painting.
