Futures of Chinese Cinema
Technologies and Temporalities in Chinese Screen Cultures
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- Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Sean Metzger and Olivia Khoo
Part I: Historiography
Chapter 1
Celebratory Screens: Chinese Cinema in the New Millennium
Dai Jinhua
Chapter2
Island of No Return: Cinematic Narration as Retrospection in Wang Tong and New Taiwan Cinema
Guo-Juin Hong
Chapter 3
Socialist Geographies, Internationalist Temporalities and Travelling Film Technologies: Sino-Soviet Film Exchange in the 1950s and 1960s
Tina Mai Chen
Chapter 4
Hong Kong Ghost in the Japanese Shell? Cross-racial Performance and Transnational Chinese Cinema
Kwai-Cheung Lo
Chapter 5
Jia Zhangke and the Temporality of Postsocialist Chinese Cinema: In the Now (and then)
Chris Berry
Part II: Capital - Economic and Industrial Contexts
Chapter 6
From BitTorrent Piracy to Creative Industries: Hong Kong Cinema Emptied Out
Laikwan Pang
Chapter 7
Genre Film, Media Corporations and the Commercialization of the Chinese Film Industry: The Case of ‘New Year Comedies’
Shuyu Kong
Chapter 8
Demand for Cultural Representation: Emerging Independent Film and Video on Lesbian Desires
Denise Tse Shang Tang
Part III: Epistemologies
Chapter 9
The Queer Space of China: Expressive Desire in Stanley Kwan’s Lan Yu
David L. Eng
Chapter 10
Saving Face, or the Future Perfect of Queer Chinese/American Cinema?
Sean Metzger
Chapter 11
Remaking the Past, Interrupting the Present: The Spaces of Technology and Futurity in Contemporary Chinese Blockbusters
Olivia Khoo
Chapter 12
Multiple-screen Realities
Paolo Voci
Contributors
Index
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