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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Chinese cinema"”.
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Masculinity on the run: history, nation and subjectivity in contemporary mainland Chinese cinema
… of masculinities in modern Mainland Chinese cinema from the early reform period to the year 2000. It argues that masculinities from this era are `on the run'; that is, male protagonists' ambiguous relationships with dominant discourses of nation, history and new formulations of …
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Pictures in Motion: The Cinematic Art of Zheng Zhengqiu and His Shanghai Contemporaries, 1910--1935
… Zhengqiu (1889-1935) was the most influential Chinese filmmaker in early Chinese cinema; his historical position parallels D.W. Griffith's in American film history. My dissertation examines the evolution of Zheng's cinematic art, tracing its origins from a cross-media perspective and through …
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Sinological-Orientalism: The Production of the West's Post -Mao China
… Tiananmen event and beyond; the reception of new Chinese cinema (1984-); current work on modernity, civil society, and globalization where China serves as paradigmatic example; and U.S. media, fiction, and film, ranging from Jack London to Don DeLillo and Martin Scorsese, that offers an …
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The Film Industry in Taiwan: A Political Economy Perspective
… audiences. The distinction between Taiwanese cinema and Hong Kong cinema provides a diverse view of the Chinese-language film market. After examining the development of the film industry in Taiwan and Hong Kong from a political economy perspective a new image for the Chinese- language film …
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再现/见南洋 : 香港电影与新加坡(1950-65) = Filming Nanyang : Hong Kong - Singapore Connection (1950-65)
… of the Commonwealth, which allowed the Hong Kong Chinese a borderless access to Singapore and Malaya. In the 1950s Hong Kong became the center of the Chinese film production outside mainland China. Cathay and Kong Ngee¿studios with a Singapore background¿produced a series of "Nanyang stories" …
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The People's Republic of Capitalism: The Making of the New Middle Class in Post-Socialist China, 1978-Present
… draws on a range of visual cultural forms - cinema, documentary, and fashion - to track the cultural dimension of the emergence of the new middle class subject in China's encounter with global capitalism. Through cultural studies methodologies and critical theoretical practices, I explore the …
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Exchanging faces: Dubbing foreign films in China, 1949-1994
… examines dubbed foreign films, which were the Chinese people’s “window to the outside world” during the Cold War era. Between 1949 and 1994, when Hollywood’s path to China was blocked by Cold War politics, the Chinese Communist Party dubbed and screened over one thousand films from the Soviet …
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The Heroes of Main Melody: Textual analysis of the Protagonists’ Masculine Traits in Chinese Main Melody Films.
Tässä tutkielmassa tarkastelen kiinalaisen main melody (zhuxuanlü) elokuvatyypin päähenkilöiden maskuliinisten piirteiden ja käytöksen representaatioita. Main melody tai leitmotif elokuvat on tarkoitettu palvelemaan Kiinan valtion ideologista koneistoa ja ylläpitämään johtavan puolueen legitiimiä. …
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The Urban Culture of Chinese Society in Bangkok: Cinemas, Broadcast and Literature, 1950S-1970S
The thesis has addressed urban culture in Chinese society in Bangkok in the postwar era, with particular focus on cinemas, broadcast and literature. These forms of cultural expression appear in the social sphere?in the streets, on the air and in texts, which constitute important parts of the urban …
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Wounds in time: the aesthetic afterlives of the Cultural Revolution
… embedded within works of literature, art, and cinema that deal with the Cultural Revolution consciously or unconsciously, in lucidity or encryption. My analysis of the Cultural Revolution as a traumatic wound endeavors to bring the concealed political crimes, disavowed pains and absent feelings …