Global Chinese cinema : the culture and politics of Hero /
Culture and politics of Hero
edited by Gary D. Rawnsley and Ming-Yeh T. Rawnsley.
- London ; New York : Routledge, c2010.
- xxvi, 226 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Routledge media, culture and social change in Asia ; 18 .
- Media, culture, and social change in Asia series ; 18. .
Includes bibliographical references, filmography (p. [212]-216) and index.
Changing discourse of national identities and heroism. The political narrative(s) of Hero / GARY D. RAWNSLEY -- Recycled heroes, invented tradition and transformed identity / YINGJIE GUO -- The emperor and the assassin: China's national Hero and the myth of state origins / YIYAN WANG -- The king, the musician and the village idiot: images of manhood / KAM LOUIE -- Transformations of cultural perception, genre and stardom. Twenty-first century women warriors: variations on a traditional theme / LOUISE EDWARDS -- On "Tian Xia (All under heaven)" in Zhang Yimou's Hero / XIZOMING CHEN and MING-YEH T. RAWNSLEY -- Hero: rewriting the Chinese martial arts film genre / HAIZHOU WANG AND MING-YEH T. RAWNSLEY -- "Would you rather spend more time making serious cinema?": Hero and Tony Leung's polysemic masculinity / MARK GALLAGHER -- Fifteen minutes of fame: transient/transnational female stardom in Hero / OLIVIA KHOO -- Local vs. global: deconstructing global Chinese blockbusters. Camp pleasure in an era of Chinese blockbusters: internet reception of Hero in mainland China / SABRINA QIONG YU -- North American reception of Zhang Yimou's Hero / WENDY LARSON -- Heroic music: from Hunan to Hollywood and back / KATY GOW -- Visual effects magic: Hero's Sydney connection / MARY FARQUHAR -- Towards a global blockbuster: the political economy of Hero's nationalism / ANTHONY FUNG AND JOSEPH M. CHAN.
9780415453158 (hbk.) 0415453151 (hbk.) 9780203859117 (ebk.) 0203859111 (ebk.)
Ying xiong (Motion picture)
Motion pictures and globalization.
Motion pictures and transnationalism.
Nationalism in motion pictures.
Motion pictures--History--China--21st century.
791.4372 / GLO 2010
Includes bibliographical references, filmography (p. [212]-216) and index.
Changing discourse of national identities and heroism. The political narrative(s) of Hero / GARY D. RAWNSLEY -- Recycled heroes, invented tradition and transformed identity / YINGJIE GUO -- The emperor and the assassin: China's national Hero and the myth of state origins / YIYAN WANG -- The king, the musician and the village idiot: images of manhood / KAM LOUIE -- Transformations of cultural perception, genre and stardom. Twenty-first century women warriors: variations on a traditional theme / LOUISE EDWARDS -- On "Tian Xia (All under heaven)" in Zhang Yimou's Hero / XIZOMING CHEN and MING-YEH T. RAWNSLEY -- Hero: rewriting the Chinese martial arts film genre / HAIZHOU WANG AND MING-YEH T. RAWNSLEY -- "Would you rather spend more time making serious cinema?": Hero and Tony Leung's polysemic masculinity / MARK GALLAGHER -- Fifteen minutes of fame: transient/transnational female stardom in Hero / OLIVIA KHOO -- Local vs. global: deconstructing global Chinese blockbusters. Camp pleasure in an era of Chinese blockbusters: internet reception of Hero in mainland China / SABRINA QIONG YU -- North American reception of Zhang Yimou's Hero / WENDY LARSON -- Heroic music: from Hunan to Hollywood and back / KATY GOW -- Visual effects magic: Hero's Sydney connection / MARY FARQUHAR -- Towards a global blockbuster: the political economy of Hero's nationalism / ANTHONY FUNG AND JOSEPH M. CHAN.
9780415453158 (hbk.) 0415453151 (hbk.) 9780203859117 (ebk.) 0203859111 (ebk.)
Ying xiong (Motion picture)
Motion pictures and globalization.
Motion pictures and transnationalism.
Nationalism in motion pictures.
Motion pictures--History--China--21st century.
791.4372 / GLO 2010