Contemporary Sino-French Cinemas: Absent Fathers, Banned Books, and Red Balloons 9780824857455
Transnational cinemas are eclipsing national cinemas in the contemporary world, and Sino-French films exemplify this phe
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Table of contents :
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
