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Overview: The Filmmaking Generations - pt. 1, History in and out of melodrama : glory, guilt, and fantasy -- Two stage sisters (Wutaijiemei, dir. Xie Jin, 1965) -- "Two stage sisters : the blossoming of a revolutionary aesthetic" / Gina Marchetti -- Hibiscus town (Furongzhen, dir. Xie Jin, 1986) -- "Society and subjectivity : on the political economy of Chinese melodrama" / Nick Browne -- Farewell my concubine (Bawang bieji, dir. Chen Kaige, 1993) -- "The concubine and the figure of history : Chen Kaige's Farewell my concubine" / Wendy Larson - pt. 2, Speaking for the other: changing allegorical roles for -- Street angel(Malu tianshi, dir. Yuan Muzhi, 1937) --"The textual and critical difference of being radical : reconstructing Chinese leftist films of the 1930s" / Ma Ning - Three women a.k.a. Women side by side (Liren xing, dir. Chen Liting, 1949) -- From "Xin niixing to Liren xing : Changing conceptions of the 'new woman' in Republican era Chinese films' / Vivian Shen -- Woman, demon, human a.k.a. Human, woman, demon (Renguiqing, dir. Huang Shuqin, 1988) -- "Human, woman, demon : a woman's predicament" / Dai Jinhua (Translated by Kirk Denton -- Ju Dou( dir. Zhang Yimou, 1990) -- "Ju Dou-- a hermeneutical reading of cross-cultural cinema" / Jenny Kwok Wah Lau - pt. 3, Cinema exotica : ethnic minorities as the prc's "internal other -- Girl from Hunan(Xiangn Xiaoxiao, dir. Xie Fei, Wu Lan, 1986) -- "'Hsiao-hsiao' and Girl from Hunan : Teaching Chinese narrative, not just Chinese fiction" / Stephanie Hoare -- Sacrificed youth (Qingchunji, dir. Zhang Nuanxin, 1985) -- "Is China the end of hermeneutics?; or, political and cultural usage of non-han women in mainland Chinese films" / Esther C. M. Yau -- Horse thief (Daomazei, dir. Tian Zhuangzhuang, 1986) -- "Tian Zhuangzhuang, the fifth generation, and minorities film in China" / Dru C. Gladney - pt. 4, The Chinese western : roots hidden in the yellow -- Yellow earth (Huang tudi, dir. Chen Kaige, 1984) -- "The 'hidden' gender in Yellow earth" / Mary Ann Farquhar -- Old well (Laojing, dir. Wu Tianming, 1987) -- From "Digging an old well : the labor of social fantasy" / Rey Chow -- Red sorghum (Hong gaoliang, dir. Zhang Yimou, 1987) -- "Red sorghum : mixing memory and desire" / Eugene Yuejin Wang -- pt. 5, New city films : beyond-yellow-earth experiences of postsocialism -- Black cannon incident (Heipao shijian, dir. Huang Jianxin, 1985) -- From "Post-socialist strategies : an analysis of Yellow earth and Black cannon incident" / Chris Berry and Mary Ann Farquhar -- Good morning, Beijing (Beijing, nizao, dir. Zhang Nuanxin, 1990) -- "In search of the real city : cinematic representations of Beijing and the politics of vision" / Xiaobing Tang. |
