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Speaking in Images: Interviews with Contemporary Chinese Filmmakers

Michael Berry

Paper, 568 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-13331-9
$26.50 / £18.50

November, 2005
Cloth, 568 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-13330-2
$73.50 / £50.50


Foreword by Martin Scorsese

Acknowledgments

Author's Note

Introduction: Speaking in Images

I. Voices from China

Xie Jin: Six Decades of Cinematic Innovation

Tian Zhuangzhuang: Stealing Horses and Flying Kites

Chen Kaige: Historical Revolution and Cinematic Rebellion

Zhang Yimou: Flying Colors

Zhang Yuan: Working up a Sweat in a Celluloid Sauna

Wang Xiaoshuai: Banned in China

Jia Zhangke: Capturing a Transforming Reality

Li Yang: The Future of Chinese Cinema?

II. Voices from Taiwan

Hou Hsiao-hsien with Chu Tien-wen: Words and Images

Edward Yang: Luckily Unlucky

Wu Nien-jen: Writing Taiwan in the Shadows of Cultural Colonialism

Ang Lee: Freedom in Film

Tsai Ming-liang: Trapped in the Past

Chang Tso-chi: Shooting from the Margins

III. Voices from Hong Kong

Ann Hui: Living Through Films

Stanley Kwan: From Spectral Nostalgia to Corporeal Desire

Fruit Chan: Hong Kong Independent

Peter Ho-sun Chan: Pioneering Pan-Asian Cinema

Evans Chan: The Last of the Chinese

Notes

Bibliography

Related Subjects


Series


About the Author

Michael Berry is assistant professor of contemporary Chinese cultural studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the translator of To Live by Yu Hua, Nanjing 1937: A Love Story by Ye Zhaoyan, and Wild Kids: Two Novels about Growing Up by Chang Ta-Chun.

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