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Rethinking transnational Chinese cinemas : the Amoy-dialect film industry in Cold War Asia
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Rethinking transnational Chinese cinemas : the Amoy-dialect film industry in Cold War Asia / Jeremy E. Taylor.
ISBN
1003061206 (electronic bk.)
9781003061205 (electronic bk.)
0203816072
0415493552
0415728320
9780203816073
9780415493550
9780415728324
Published
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2011.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xviii, 171 pages : : illustrations.)
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Variant and related titles
Taylor & Francis. EBA 2024-2025.
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Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 08, 2024
Series
Media, culture and social change in Asia
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
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' matinées
Impossibility of Xiayupian
Conclusion.
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