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Rethinking transnational Chinese cinemas : the Amoy-dialect film industry in Cold War Asia /

by Taylor, Jeremy E.,
Series: Media, culture, and social change in Asia series ; Published by : Routledge, (Abingdon, Oxon :) Physical details: xviii, 171 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. ISBN: 0415493552 Subject(s): Motion pictures, Chinese %China %Hong Kong. | Motion pictures, Chinese %Southeast Asia. | Motion picture industry %China %Hong Kong %History %20th century. | Motion picture industry %Southeast Asia %History %20th century. Year: 2011
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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.

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