China on Screen: Cinema and Nation

Chris Berry and Mary Farquhar

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Paper, 336 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-13707-2
$28.50 / £19.50

March, 2006
Cloth, 336 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-13706-5
$85.00 / £58.50

List of Illustrations vii

Acknowledgements ix

A note on Translation and Romanization xiii

1 Introduction: Cinema and the National 1

2 Time and the National: History, Historiology, Haunting 17

3 Operatic Modes: Opera Film, Martial Arts, and Cultural Nationalism 47

4 Realist Modes: Melodrama, modernity, and Home 75

5 HOw Should A Chinese Woman Look? Woman and Nation 108

6 How Should Chinese Men Act? Ordering the Nation 135

7 Where Do You Draw the Line? Ethnicity in Chinese Cinemas 169

8 The National in the Transnational 195

Chronolgy 223

Notes 233

European Language Bibliography 265

Chinese Language Bibliography 287

Film List 293

Index 301

Related Subjects

• East Asian Studies
• Film

Series

• Film and Culture Series

About the Author

Chris Berry is professor of film and television studies at Goldsmiths College, University of London. He is the author or editor of several books, including Postsocialist Cinema in Post-Mao China: The Cultural Revolution after the Cultural Revolution. Mary Farquhar is professor of Asian studies at Griffith University and is the author of numerous articles and the prize-winning book, Children's Literature in China: From Lu Xun to Mao Zedong.

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