Sinophone Cinemas

by A. Yue (Editor), O. Khoo (Editor)

Overview

Sinophone Cinemas considers a range of multilingual, multidialect and multi-accented cinemas produced in Chinese-language locations outside mainland China. It showcases new screen cultures from Britain, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore and Australia.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781137311191
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/22/2014
Edition description:	2014
Pages:	231
Product dimensions:	5.60(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Yifen Beus, Brigham Young University, USA Felicia Chan, University of Manchester, UK Jennifer Feeley, University of Iowa, USA Alison Groppe, University of Oregon, USA Sheldon Lu, University of California at Davis, USA Olivia Khoo, Monash University, Australia Song Hwee, University of Exeter, UK Shu-mei Shih, UCLA, USA Mirana May Szeto, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Yiman Wang, University of California Santa Cruz, USA Andy Willis, University of Salford, UK Audrey Yue, The University of Melbourne, Australia

Table of Contents

List of Figures Notes on Contributors Foreword: The Sinophone Redistribution of the Audible; Shih Shu-mei Acknowledgments Notes on Chinese names and film titles PART I: THEORISING SINOPHONE CINEMAS 1. Framing Sinophone Cinemas; Audrey Yue and Olivia Khoo 2. Genealogies of Four Critical Paradigms in Chinese-Language Film Studies; Sheldon Lu 3. Alter-centering Sinophone Cinema; Yiman Wang 4. Festivals, Censorship and the Canon: the Makings of Sinophone Cinemas; Yifen T. Beus 5. The Voice of the Sinophone; Song Hwee Lim 6. The Sounds of Language: Tan Pin Pin's Sinophone Cinema; Olivia Khoo PART II: CONTEMPORARY SINOPHONE CINEMAS 7. Mandarin Pop Meets Tokyo Jazz: Gender and Popular Youth Culture in Late 1960s Hong Kong Musicals; Jennifer Feeley 8. Sinophone Libidinal Economy in the Age of Neoliberalisation and Mainlandisation: Masculinities in Hong Kong SAR New Wave Cinema; Mirana M. Szeto 9. 'Singlish' and the Sinophone: Nonstandard (Chinese/English) Languages in Recent Singaporean cinema; Alison M. Groppe 10. British Chinese Short Films: Challenging the Limits of the Sinophone; Felicia Chan and Andy Willis 11. Contemporary Sinophone Cinema: Australia-China Co-Productions; Audrey Yue Bibliography Filmography

Editorial Reviews

"This volume is a valuable source of new insights by those committed to working in the area of Sinophone cinemas. The lucid presentation of the subject makes it a perfect choice for classroom use." - Gina Marchetti, University of Hong Kong

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