American and Chinese-Language Cinemas : Examining Cultural Flows (Hardcover)

Introduction: Examining Cultural Flows Lisa Funnell and Man-Fung Yip  Part 1: Style, Narrative, Form  1. For the Better or For the Worse, Don’t Change Your Husband!: Remake and Appropriation of American Films in Republican China, 1911-1949 Zhiwei Xiao  2. A Tale of Two Cinemas: Embracing and Rejecting Hollywood’s Influence in 1930s Shanghai ? A Precursor to 21st Century Capitalist/Communist Dreams? Alison Hume  3. "Glocal" Sounds and the Synth-Pop Scores of Hong Kong Cinema Katherine Spring 4. Ang Lee’s Life of Pi: A Cosmopolitan Perspective Kin-Yan Szeto  Part 2: Genre  5. (Un-)Folding Hollywood and New Chinese Subjectivity through PRC’s Minority National Film in the 1950s and 60s Kwai-Cheung Lo  6. Action Cinema and Minor Transnationalism Man-Fung Yip  7. The Chinese War Film: Reframing National History in Transnational Cinema Vivian Lee Part 3: Marketing, Exhibition, Reception  8. Cinema, Propaganda, and Networks of Experience: Exhibiting Chongqing Cinema in New York Weihong Bao and Nathaniel Brennan  9. Defenders of the Palace: Chinese-Language Movie Theatres and the Fight Over Semi-Private Spaces Brian Hu  10. Reading Hollywood in Postwar Shanghai: From The Metro News to Western Movie Pictorial Lunpeng Ma  11. Watching Anna May Wong in the Republican China Yiman Wang  Part 4: Performance, Identity, Representation  12. Performing Nationality: The Fifth Generation as an "American" Transnational Cinema Victor Fan  13. Colliding Fact and Fiction: Techno-Orientalism and Violence in Chen Shi-Zheng’s Dark Matter Kenneth Chan  14. Re-Framing Chinese and American Connections on Screen: The Casting of White Hollywood Actors in Chinese Funded Films Lisa Funnell