Brian Hu Worldly Desires Cosmopolitanism and Ci

Worldly Desires Autor: Brian Hu Wydawnictwo: Edinburgh University Press Rok wydania: 2018 Oprawa: Twarda Format: 160x235 mm Objętość: 496 str. Stan: Bardzo dobry. Nowa (książka może posiadać delikatne przytarcie oraz niewielkie zagniecenie) ISBN: 9781474428453 How does cinema imagine our place in the world? This book looks at the studios, films and policies that charted the transnational vision of Hong Kong and Taiwan, two places with an uneasy relationship to the idea of nationhood. Examining the cultural, political and industrial overlaps between these cinemas - as well as the areas where they uniquely parallel each other - author Brian Hu brings together perspectives from cinema studies, Chinese studies and Asian American studies to show how culture is produced in the spaces between empires. With case studies of popular stars like Linda Lin Dai and Edison Chen, and spectacular genres like the Shaolin Temple cycle of martial arts films and the romantic melodramas of 1970s Taiwan, this book explores what it meant to be both cosmopolitan and Chinese in the second half of the twentieth century.