Remaking Chinese Cinema : Through the Prism of Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Hollywood /

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From melodrama to Cantonese opera, from silents to 3D animated film, this book traces cross-Pacific film remaking over the last eight decades. Through the refractive prism of Hollywood, Shanghai, and Hong Kong, the author revolutionizes our understanding of Chinese cinema as national cinema. Against...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wang, Yiman, 1972- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2013]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Remake
Film.
Motion pictures.
Film remakes.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > Reference.
PERFORMING ARTS > Reference.
Nouvelles versions (Films) > Chine > Histoire et critique.
Cinema > Chine > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Film remakes > China > History and criticism.
Motion pictures > China > History > 20th century.
Hongkong
China
China.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The goddess : tracking the "unknown woman" from Hollywood through Shanghai to Hong Kong
  • Family resemblance, class conflicts : re-version of the sisterhood singsong drama
  • The love parade goes on : western-costume Cantonese opera film and the foreignizing remake
  • Mr. Phantom goes to the East : history and its afterlife from Hollywood to Shanghai and Hong Kong
  • Conclusion : Mr. Undercover goes global.

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