Film History and Screen Culture in and beyond Greater China

Bringing together work from established and emerging scholars and practitioners from around the world, this collection expands existing scholarship on cinemas of the Sinosphere by revealing forgotten and emerging aspects of film history.

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Lin Feng is an Associate Professor of Film Studies at the University of Leicester (UK) and a senior fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy. She currently is serving as the Honorary Secretary for the British Association for Chinese Studies.

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Introduction

Lin Feng

1 A Cinematic Anatomy of Place: Revisiting Manchuria in Colonial Films

Yufei Li

2 The Legends of Ma Yongzhen and Ma Suzhen: From Shanghai Silent Film to Hong Kong Martial Arts Cinema

Paul Bevan

3 Voicing the West: Dubbing Artists and Invisible Labour Behind the Socialist Screen

Lin Feng

4 The City as Marginalised Space: A History of the Urban in Chinese Socialist Animation (1950s-1980s)

Paul Kendall

5 Crazy Bumpkins and City Slickers: Anticipating the Hong Kong New Wave in Shaw Brothers' 1970s Comedies

Fraser Elliott

6 A New Inception: Reintroducing Film Genres in 1980s People's Republic of China Cinema

Stefano Locati

7 The Qiong Yao Phenomenon and Chinese Film of the 1980s

Xuelin Zhou

8 Ebola Syndrome (1996) and the Marginalisation of Popular Taste in Hong Kong Film History

Andy Willis

9 The Star Text of Anita Mui: Gender, Genre, and Chineseness in Hong Kong Cinema

Chin-Pang Lei

10 An Alternative Romance: The Gendered Codes in New Taiwanese language Melodrama

Yuan Li

11 The Look, Hook, and Book with Chinese Characteristics of the New Mainstream Film The Battle at Lake Changjin (2021)

Stephen Andriano-Moore and Haige Cui