Sino-Enchantment : : The Fantastic in Contemporary Chinese Cinemas /

Sino-Enchantment : : The Fantastic in Contemporary Chinese Cinemas / / Kenneth Chan, Andrew Stuckey.

Approaches the recent resurgence of the fantastic in Chinese cinemasOffers the framework of ‘Sino-enchantment’ as a new theoretical lens through which readers can engage elements of the fantastic in Chinese cinemaAddresses the increasing prominence of fantastic narratives, imagery and styles in Chin...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Arts 2021
VerfasserIn:
Chan, Kenneth,
Stuckey, Andrew,
MitwirkendeR:
Chan, Kenneth,
Chao, Shi-Yan,
Chung, Elaine,
Cunliffe, Tom,
McGrath, Jason,
North, Dan,
Pettigrew, Ian,
Stuckey, Andrew,
Wang, Yiman,
Yang, Li,
Yang, Mei,
Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©2021
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Edinburgh Studies in East Asian Film : ESEAF
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Physical Description:1 online resource (304 p.) :; 24 B/W illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes on the Contributors
  • Note on Romanisation
  • 1 Introduction: Th e Fantastic as Sino-Enchantment in Contemporary Chinese Cinemas
  • PART I VISUALITY/VIRTUALITY
  • 2 Heroic Human Pixels: Mass Ornaments and Digital Multitudes in Zhang Yimou’s Spectacles
  • 3 The Spectacle of Co-Production in The Great Wall
  • 4 The Blockbuster Breakthrough: The Fantastic in Hero
  • PART II GENRES OF SINO-ENCHANTMENT
  • 5 The Restrained Fantastic in Hou Hsiao-hsien’s The Assassin
  • 6 An Auteurist Journey through the Fantastic Mode: A Case Study of Ho Meng-hua
  • 7 Tracing the Science Fiction Genre in Hong Kong Cinema
  • 8 Chick Flick Fantasy and Postfeminism in Chinese Cinema: 20 Once Again as a Transnational Remake
  • 9 The Sacred Spectacle: Subverting Scepticism in Tsui Hark’s Detective Dee Films
  • PART III ETHICS
  • 10 Almost Wild, But Not Quite: The Indexical and the Fantastic Animal Other in China-Co-Produced (Eco)Cinema
  • 11 Domesticity, Sentimentality and Otherness: The Boundary of the Human in Monster Hunt
  • 12 Transforming Tripitaka: Toward a (Buddhist) Planetary Ethics in Stephen Chow’s Adaptation of Journey to the West
  • Coda: Sino-Enchantment in a Time of Crisis
  • Selected Filmography
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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