What a Difference a Region Makes

by Chris Berry, Nicola Liscutin, and Jonathan D. ...

Hong Kong University Press

Notes on Contributors SooJeong AHN worked for the Pusan International Film Festival between 1998 and 2002. She is author of the chapter “Bibliography of Works on Korean Cinema” in New Korean Cinema (2005) and has completed a Ph.D. on film festivals at the University of Nottingham. Her recent publications include “Re-imagining the Past: Programming South Korean Retrospectives at the Pusan International Film Festival,” in Film International, Vol. 6. (2008), a special issue on film festivals edited by Dina Iordanova (forthcoming); and “Re-mapping Asian Cinema: The Tenth Anniversary of PIFF in 2005,” in Cinemas, Identities and Beyond, edited by Ruby Cheung and David Fleming (forthcoming). Chris BERRY is Professor of Film and Television Studies in the Department of Media and Communication at Goldsmiths, University of London. His publications include (with Mary Farquhar) Cinema and the National: China on Screen (2006); Postsocialist Cinema in Post-Mao China: The Cultural Revolution after the Cultural

(2010)

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Cinema and Nation

by Chris Berry and Mary Farquhar

Hong Kong University Press

List of Illustrations FIGURES 2.1a-2.1d. The fisherwoman confronts the foreign merchant in Lin Zexu (1959) 26 FIGURE 2.2 Li Quanxi's The Opium War (1963) 27 FIGU RES 2.3a-2.3c The ending of Yellow Earth (1984) 34 FIGURE 2.4 Wen-ching threatened in City oJSadness (1989) 35 FIGU RE 2.5 Communicating by notes in City oJSadness 37 FIGURE 3.1 The lovers in Love Eterne (1963) 52 FIGURE 3.2 The woman warrior in A Touch oJZen (1971) 54 FIGURE 3.3 Tan Xinpei in Dingjun Mountain (1905) 57 FIGURE 3.4 The heroine in The White-haired Girl (1950) 61 FIGURE 3.5 Ke Xiang in Azalea Mountain (1974) 63 FIGURES 3.6a-3.6e On the execution ground in Azalea Mountain (1974)65 FIGURE 3.7 Twelve Widows March West (1963) 68 FIGURE 4.1 Tomboy (1936) 84 FIGURE 4.2 Xiao Yun from Street Angel (1937) 87 FIGURES 4.3a-4.3c Deathbed scene in Street Angel (1937) 88 FIGU RE 4-4 On the town walls

(2009)

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Taiwan New Cinema and After

by Chris Berry and Feii Lu

Hong Kong University Press

Contributors Chris BERRY is Professor of Film and Television Studies at Goldsmiths College, University of London. He has written widely on Chinese cinema, and is the translator of Feii Lu’s Taiwan Cinema: Politics, Economics, Aesthetics. He is author of Postsocialist Cinema in Post-Mao China (Routledge), editor of Chinese Films in Focus: 25 New Takes (British Film Institute), co-editor of Mobile Cultures: New Media and Queer Asia (Duke University Press), and The Filmmaker and the Prostitute: Dennis O’Rourke’s “The Good Woman of Bangkok” (Sydney: The Power Institute Press), translator of Ni Zhen’s Memoirs from the Beijing Film Academy: The Origins of China’s Fifth Generation Filmmakers (Duke University Press), and co-translator of Ding Xiaoqi’s Maidenhome, (San Francisco: Aunt Lute). Nick BROWNE is Professor, Chair of the Critical Studies Committee, and Vice Chair of the Department of Film, Television and Digital Media at UCLA. He is the author of the book Contemporary Western

(2005)

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