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

by Yiman Wang

From melodrama to Cantonese opera, from silents to 3D animated film, Remaking Chinese Cinema traces cross-Pacific film remaking over the last eight decades. Through the refractive prism of Hollywood, Shanghai, and Hong Kong, Yiman Wang revolutionizes our understanding of Chinese cinema as national cinema. Against the diffusion model of national cinema spreading from a central point--Shanghai in the Chinese case--she argues for a multi-local process...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824836073
• ISBN13: 9780824836078
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"