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Shanghai Filmmaking
From: xuelei huang (Xuelei.Huang at ed.ac.uk)
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Dear MCLC list-members: I’m happy to announce the publication of my book: Shanghai Filmmaking: Crossing Borders, Connecting to the Globe, 1922-1938. Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2014. ISBN13: 9789004279339 Pages, Illustr.: xvi, 381 pp.
Abstract: In Shanghai Filmmaking, Huang Xuelei invites readers to go on an intimate, detailed, behind-the-scenes tour of the world of early Chinese cinema. She paints a nuanced picture of the Mingxing Motion Picture Company, the leading Chinese film studio in the 1920s and 1930s, and argues that Shanghai filmmaking involved a series of border-crossing practices. Shanghai filmmaking developed in a matrix of global cultural production and distribution, and interacted closely with print culture and theatre. People from allegedly antagonistic political groupings worked closely with each other to bring a new form of visual culture and a new body of knowledge to an audience in and outside China. By exploring various border crossings, this book sheds new light on the power of popular cultural production during China’s modern transformation. Table of contents: Foreword Paul G. Pickowicz; INTRODUCTION: Shanghai Filmmaking: Border-crossing Practices; PART I PRODUCTION 1. The Business; 2. Players in the 1920s: Interconnecting, Mediating; 3. Players in the 1930s: Contestation? Collaboration? PART II PRODUCT 4. The Medium: Inside Glocal Mediascapes; 5. The Narrative (I): Melodrama as a Social Form; 6. The Narrative (II): Melodramas Fit for All; 7. The Meaning: Toward a Sentimental Education EPILOGUE: Toward a Glocal Viewing Public; Appendix I: Filmography; Appendix II: Mingxing Personnel Bibliography.
by denton.2 at osu.edu on September 2, 2014
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