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Taylor, Jeremy E., 1973-
Rethinking transnational Chinese cinemas : the Amoy-dialect film industry in Cold War Asia / Jeremy E. Taylor. - Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2011. - xviii, 171 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - Media, culture, and social change in Asia series ; .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Rethinking transnationalism -- Hokkien heritage -- Euphoria of the transnational -- Locating Amoy-dialect films -- Contextualizing Amoy-dialect cinema -- Studying Xiayupian -- Defining Amoy-dialect cinema -- Third Chinese cinema -- What makes a film a Xiayupian? -- When is an Amoy-dialect film not an Amoy-dialect film? -- Beyond the screen -- Origins and development -- Postwar Hokkien world -- Philippine financing -- Amoy-dialect film family -- Shaping of a cinema -- Popular tales of ancient days -- Politics of Amoy-dialect cinema -- Lychees and mirrors -- Chinese classics and Taiwanese stories -- Malayan Amoy-dialect realism -- New Amoy-dialect films -- Reinventing the industry -- Eng Wah, Kong Ngee and shaws -- New Amoy-dialect films -- Hong Kong is heaven -- Modern Hokkien songs -- Suipian Dengtai -- Cold-war industry -- Xiayupian and the nationalist state -- Fraught relationship -- Monopoly on Hokkien cinema -- Amoy-dialect patriotism -- Cinema for non-communist China -- End of Amoy-dialect cinema -- 1963, a year of some significance -- Decline in production -- Death of an industry -- Housewives' matinees -- Impossibility of Xiayupian -- Conclusion.
9780415493550 (cloth : alk. paper) 0415493552 (cloth : alk. paper)
Motion pictures, Chinese--China--Hong Kong.
Motion pictures, Chinese--Southeast Asia.
Motion picture industry--History--China--Hong Kong--20th century.
Motion picture industry--History--Southeast Asia--20th century.
PN1993.5.C4 / T395 2011
384.8095125 / T395
Rethinking transnational Chinese cinemas : the Amoy-dialect film industry in Cold War Asia / Jeremy E. Taylor. - Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2011. - xviii, 171 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - Media, culture, and social change in Asia series ; .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Rethinking transnationalism -- Hokkien heritage -- Euphoria of the transnational -- Locating Amoy-dialect films -- Contextualizing Amoy-dialect cinema -- Studying Xiayupian -- Defining Amoy-dialect cinema -- Third Chinese cinema -- What makes a film a Xiayupian? -- When is an Amoy-dialect film not an Amoy-dialect film? -- Beyond the screen -- Origins and development -- Postwar Hokkien world -- Philippine financing -- Amoy-dialect film family -- Shaping of a cinema -- Popular tales of ancient days -- Politics of Amoy-dialect cinema -- Lychees and mirrors -- Chinese classics and Taiwanese stories -- Malayan Amoy-dialect realism -- New Amoy-dialect films -- Reinventing the industry -- Eng Wah, Kong Ngee and shaws -- New Amoy-dialect films -- Hong Kong is heaven -- Modern Hokkien songs -- Suipian Dengtai -- Cold-war industry -- Xiayupian and the nationalist state -- Fraught relationship -- Monopoly on Hokkien cinema -- Amoy-dialect patriotism -- Cinema for non-communist China -- End of Amoy-dialect cinema -- 1963, a year of some significance -- Decline in production -- Death of an industry -- Housewives' matinees -- Impossibility of Xiayupian -- Conclusion.
9780415493550 (cloth : alk. paper) 0415493552 (cloth : alk. paper)
Motion pictures, Chinese--China--Hong Kong.
Motion pictures, Chinese--Southeast Asia.
Motion picture industry--History--China--Hong Kong--20th century.
Motion picture industry--History--Southeast Asia--20th century.
PN1993.5.C4 / T395 2011
384.8095125 / T395