TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bloom,Michelle E.
AU  - Lu,Sheldon Hsiao-peng
TI  - Contemporary Sino-French Cinemas: Absent Fathers, Banned Books, and Red Balloons 
T2  - Critical Interventions
SN  - 9780824851583
U1  - 791.430951 23
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - Honolulu : 
PB  - University of Hawaii Press, 
KW  - Coproduction (Motion pictures, television, etc.)
KW  - China
KW  - Taiwan
KW  - Motion pictures
KW  - History
KW  - HISTORY / Asia / China
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction to Contemporary Sino-French Cinemas --; PART ONE. Franco-Taiwanese Cinema --; 1. The Sino-French as Métissage --; 2. Intertextuality as Métissage in Tsai Ming-liang's Sino-French Films --; 3. Hou Hsiao-hsien's Flight of the Red Balloon as a Sino-French Makeover --; PART TWO. Franco-Chinese Cinema --; 4. Translations of Dai Sijie's Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress --; 5. Imitating Frenchness in Emily Tang Xiaobai's Conjugation and Jia Zhangke's The World --; Conclusions Mixing It Up --; Notes --; Filmography --; Bibliography --; Index --; About the Author; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - Transnational cinemas are eclipsing national cinemas in the contemporary world, and Sino-French films exemplify this phenomenon through the cinematic coupling of the Sinophone and the Francophone, linking France not just with the Chinese mainland but also with the rest of the Chinese-speaking world. Sinophone directors most often reach out to French cinema by referencing and adapting it. They set their films in Paris and metropolitan France, cast French actors, and sometimes use French dialogue, even when the directors themselves don't understand it. They tend to view France as mysterious, sexy, and sophisticated, just as the French see China and Taiwan as exotic.As Michelle E. Bloom makes clear, many films move past a simplistic opposition between East and West and beyond Orientalist and Occidentalist cross-cultural interplay. Bloom focuses on films that have appeared since 2000 such as Tsai Ming-liang's What Time Is It There? , Hou Hsiao-hsien's Flight of the Red Balloon, and Dai Sijie's Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress. She views the work of these well-known directors through a Sino-French optic, applying the tropes of métissage (or biraciality), intertextuality, adaptation and remake, translation, and imitation to shed new light on their work. She also calls attention to important, lesser studied films: Taiwanese director Cheng Yu-chieh's Yang Yang, which depicts the up-and-coming Taiwanese star Sandrine Pinna as a mixed race beauty; and Emily Tang Xiaobai's debut film Conjugation, which contrasts Paris and post-Tiananmen Square Beijing, the one an incarnation of liberty, the other a place of entrapment. Bloom's insightful analysis also probes what such films reveal about their Taiwanese and Chinese creators.Scholars have long studied Sino-French literature, but this inaugural full-length work on Sino-French cinema maps uncharted territory, offering a paradigm for understanding other cross-cultural interminglings and tools to study transnational cinema and world cinema. The Sino-French, rich and multifaceted, linguistically, culturally, and ethnically, constitutes an important part of film studies, Francophone studies, Sinophone studies and myriad other fields. This is a must-read for students, scholars, and lovers of film
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780824857455
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