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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 : Routledge, 2010.
- xxvi, 226 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Media, culture, and social change in Asia series ; 18. .
Filmography: p. [212]-216. Includes bibliographical references 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. : alk. paper) 0415453151 (hbk. : alk. paper) 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.
PN1997.Y4735 / G56 2010
791.4372 / G562
Filmography: p. [212]-216. Includes bibliographical references 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. : alk. paper) 0415453151 (hbk. : alk. paper) 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.
PN1997.Y4735 / G56 2010
791.4372 / G562