by Taylor, Jeremy E
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TitleRethinking transnational Chinese cinemas : the Amoy- dialect film industry in Cold War Asia
Item typeBook
Author(s)Taylor, Jeremy E
ImprintAbingdon, Oxon ; Routledge, 2011
SeriesMedia, culture, and social change in Asia series
ISBN
  • 9780415493550
  • 0415493552
  • 9780203816073
  • 0203816072
LanguageEnglish
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Notes
  • 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' matinées -- Impossibility of Xiayupian -- Conclusion.
Physical descriptionxviii, 171 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

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2011
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Taylor, Jeremy E
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