New Chinese Cinemas: Forms, Identities, Politics

Considering in detail both conservative and progressive stances on economic 'modernisation', it also demonstrates how film has been an important formal structure and social document in the interpretation of these changes. 

The essays collected here, which were specially commissioned for this volume, also offer extended analyses of the important trends, styles and work that define Chinese filmmaking in the 1980s.

CONTENTS

I. FILM IN THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC

1. Spatiality and Subjectivity in Xie Jin’s Film Melodrama of the New Period- MA NING

2. Society and Subjectivity: On the Political Economy of Chinese Melodrama- NICK BROWNE

3. Huang Jianxin and the Notion of Postsocialism- PAUL G. PICKOWICZ

4. Neither One Thing nor Another: Toward a Study of the Viewing Subject and Chinese Cinema in the 1980s- CHRIS BERRY

II. FILM IN TAIWAN AND HONG KONG

5. Remapping Taipei- FREDRIC JAMESON

6. The Ideology of Initiation: The Films of Hou Hsiao-hsien- WILLIAM TAY

7. The Return of the Father: Hong Kong New Wave and Its Chinese Context in the 1980s- LI CHEUK-TO

8. Border Crossing: Mainland China’s Presence in Hong Kong Cinema- ESTHER YAU

9. Two Films from Hong Kong: Parody and Allegory- LEO OU-FAN LEE