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Sino-enchantment : the fantastic in contemporary Chinese cinemas /

Approaches the recent resurgence of the fantastic in Chinese cinemas.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Chan, Kenneth (Editor ), Stuckey, Andrew (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2021]
Colección:Edinburgh studies in East Asian film.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: The fantastic as Sino-enchantment in contemporary Chinese cinemas
  • Part I. Visuality/virtuality. Heroic human pixels : mass ornaments and digital multitudes in Zhang Yimou's spectacles
  • The spectacle of co-production in The Great Wall
  • The blockbuster breakthrough : the fantastic in Hero
  • Part II. Genres of sino-enchantment. The restrained fantastic in Hou Hsiao-hsien's The assassin
  • An auteurist journey through the fantastic mode : a case study of Ho Meng-hua
  • Tracing the science fiction genre in Hong Kong cinema
  • Chick flick fantasy and postfeminism in Chinese cinema : 20 Once again as a transnational remake
  • The sacred spectacle : subverting scepticism in Tsui Hark's Detective Dee films
  • Part III. Ethics. Almost wild, but not quite : the indexical and the fantastic animal other in China-co-produced (eco)cinema
  • Domesticity, sentimentality and otherness : the boundary of the human in Monster hunt
  • 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.