Shanghai Filmmaking

Crossing Borders, Connecting to the Globe, 1922-1938
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-90-04-27933-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 29, 382 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 748 g

Reihe: China Studies

In Shanghai Filmmaking, Huang Xuelei invites readers to go on an intimate, detailed, behind-the-scenes tour of the world of early Chinese cinema. She paints a nuanced picture of the Mingxing Motion Picture Company, the leading Chinese film studio in the 1920s and 1930s, and argues that Shanghai filmmaking involved a series of border-crossing practices.

Shanghai filmmaking developed in a matrix of global cultural production and distribution, and interacted closely with print culture and theatre. People from allegedly antagonistic political groupings worked closely with each other to bring a new form of visual culture and a new body of knowledge to an audience in and outside China. By exploring various border crossings, this book sheds new light on the power of popular cultural production during China’s modern transformation.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Xuelei, Huang

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmproduktion, Filmtechnik
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Figures, Charts, and Tables
Conventions and Abbreviations
Acknowledgements

Foreword
Paul G. Pickowicz

INTRODUCTION: Shanghai Filmmaking: Border-crossing Practices

PART I PRODUCTION
1. The Business
2. Players in the 1920s: Interconnecting, Mediating
3. Players in the 1930s: Contestation? Collaboration?

PART II PRODUCT
4. The Medium: Inside Glocal Mediascapes
5. The Narrative (I): Melodrama as a Social Form
6. The Narrative (II): Melodramas Fit for All
7. The Meaning: Toward a Sentimental Education

EPILOGUE: Toward a Glocal Viewing Public

Appendix I: Filmography
Appendix II: Mingxing Personnel
Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Huang Xuelei, Ph.D. (2009), University of Heidelberg, is Chancellor’s Research Fellow in Chinese Studies at the University of Edinburgh. She has published on Chinese cinema, print culture and the social history of modern China.