Screening China: Critical Interventions, Cinematic Reconfigurations, and the Transnational Imaginary in Contemporary Chinese Cinema Vol

by Yingjin Zhang

When Chinese films are screened in the West, viewers often prize, debate, and critique the "Chineseness" presented therein. Critics, scholars, and cultural theorists, too, latch onto the ethnic and cultural markers in Chinese film, often applying their theories as if they were universally applicable and even independent of history. They study only a small number of films from a large body of available works, often with a unidirectional Eurocentric...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0892641584
• ISBN13: 9780892641581
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: U of M Center for Chinese Studies
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.0"