Shanghai filmmaking : : crossing borders, connecting to the globe, 1922-1938 / / Huang Xuelei.

• Superior document: China Studies, Volume 29
• VerfasserIn: Xuelei, Huang,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands : : Brill,, 2014.; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: China studies (Leiden, Netherlands) ; Volume 29.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (397 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

In Shanghai Filmmaking , Huang Xuelei invites readers to go on an intimate, detailed, behind-the-scenes tour of the world of early Chinese cinema. She paints a nuanced picture of the Mingxing Motion Picture Company, the leading Chinese film studio in the 1920's and 1930's, and argues that Shanghai filmmaking involved a series of border-crossing practices. Shanghai filmmaking developed in a matrix of global cultural production and distribution, and interacted closely with print culture and theatre. People from allegedly antagonistic political groupings worked closely with each other to bring a new form of visual culture and a new body of knowledge to an audience in and outside China. By exploring various border crossings, this book sheds new light on the power of popular cultural production during China’s modern transformation.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Introduction: Shanghai Filmmaking: Border-crossing Practices -- 1 The Business -- 2 Players of the 1920's: Interconnecting, Mediating -- 3 Players of the 1930's: Contestation? Collaboration? -- 4 The Medium: Inside Glocal Mediascapes -- 5 The Narrative (I): Melodrama as a Social Form -- 6 The Narrative (II): Melodramas Fit for All -- 7 The Meaning: Toward a Sentimental Education -- Epilogue: Toward a Glocal Viewing Public -- Appendix 1: Filmography -- Appendix 2: Mingxing Personnel -- Bibliography -- Index.