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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Chinese film"”.
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Hero in West and East
… of Zhang Yimou’s Hero (2002) from American and Chinese popular press, this research considers western film theories, as well as the specific Chinese film ecology of the current decade 1999-2009. Reflections on the different readings of the filmic text are discussed with the focus on martial arts …
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Chinese culture, tourism and a television series: Grand View Gardens, Beijing
Film tourism is a growing phenomenon worldwide. Popular films and television series shooting in a destination can be seen as a very efficient driver for attracting tourists. This thesis was conducted at a Chinese film set, Grand View Garden, Beijing from June 2013 to February 2014. The research …
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EGGS UNDER THE RED FLAG AND BEYOND: THE CINEMA OF THE FIFTH GENERATION AND ITS REPRESENTATION OF CHILDHOOD
… images of childhood that the Fifth Generation filmmakers created throughout a thirty-five year period of post-Maoist social transition in China since the beginning of the market reform and opening policy in 1978. To look at evolving childhood through their films is to position the construction …
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Imagined nation and imagined womanhood in the Shaw Brothers' musicals
… epics and huangmei musicals that dominated the Chinese film market in the 1960s. Shaw Brothers’ historical epics and huangmei musicals often center on female characters. Sometimes the male protagonist is cross-dressed by actresses. Hence they are categorized as the female genre or the feminine …
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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)
Filming Nanyang: Hong Kong ¿ Singapore Connection (1950-65) Although films made in Hong Kong in the 1950s occupy a central place in film industry of the Colony, it received less attention than it deserves. Cold War diplomacy changed not only the geo-political relationship between large countries …
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Wounds in time: the aesthetic afterlives of the Cultural Revolution
… and Hong Ying, artist Zhang Xiaogang, as well as filmmakers Jia Zhangke and Jiang Wen. Drawing on classical theory of trauma by Freud as well as works by subsequent theorists such as Nicholas Abraham and Maria Torok, Cathy Caruth and Dominick LaCapra, I maintain that the Cultural Revolution is not …