{"id":2490,"date":"2014-03-11T09:30:14","date_gmt":"2014-03-11T01:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=2490"},"modified":"2014-03-03T22:58:34","modified_gmt":"2014-03-03T14:58:34","slug":"chinese-literature-dissertation-reviews-cosmopolitanism-cinema-in-hongkong-taiwan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=2490","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Literature Dissertation Reviews: Cosmopolitanism & Cinema in Hongkong, Taiwan"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Cosmopolitanism <\/a>Dissertation Reviews<\/a> has posted Kristof Van den Troost’s review of Brian Hu<\/b>‘s Worldly Desires: Cosmopolitanism and Cinema in Hong Kong and Taiwan<\/i><\/b><\/em>. Here\u2019s how it begins:<\/p>\n

Much of the growth in the field of Chinese cinema studies over the last two decades has been fuelled by a questioning of the category of Chinese cinema itself. With the national cinema paradigm considered outdated and inadequate, scholars have explored new ways to understand the film industries of China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, as well as the many transnational connections forged by Chinese filmmakers in an increasingly globalized world. Despite the wealth of research already produced on this topic, Brian Hu\u2019s dissertation manages to break new ground, and makes an important theoretical intervention in the field. But Hu\u2019s contribution goes further than this. Methodologically, he combines archival research and close readings of films with less explored avenues of research\u2014particularly the study of film music, industrial texts, and audiences. Covering a period of more than sixty years (from the 1950s to the 2000s), Hu consistently looks at film genres, production cycles, and stars that have been relatively ignored, in the process offering a fresh perspective on Hong Kong and Taiwanese film history.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Click the image above for the full review.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dissertation Reviews has posted Kristof Van den Troost’s review of Brian Hu‘s Worldly Desires: Cosmopolitanism and Cinema in Hong Kong and Taiwan. 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