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Film Studies: National Cinemas

This guide highlights selected resources for various national cinemas.
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Other library resource(s)

  • ASP's Asian Film Online logoAsian film online: volumes 1 & 2 by Alexander Street Press
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    • Database
    Call Number: Electronic resource
    Asian Film Online offers a view of Asian culture as seen through the lens of the independent Asian filmmaker. Through a selection of over 1,000 narrative feature films, documentaries and shorts curated by film scholars and critics, the collection offers highly relevant perspectives and insights onto themes relevant across Asia, including modernity, globalization, female agency, social and political unrest, and cultural and sexual identity. ...
  • Resource logoChinese cinema from Media History Digital Library by Kat Pan
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    Call Number: Electronic resource
    The Chinese Cinema Collection covers a heterogeneous body of film publications in China’s Republican era. The collection highlights localized conceptions of Chinese film cultures, the cultivation of movie fandom in its semi-colonial society, as well as the history of the Chinese film industry spanning the three decades preceding the Second Sino-Japanese War.

    The collection includes Movietone (Dian Sheng 電聲), one of the longest running and the most popular film periodicals in China’s Republican era. This magazine offers news on cinema that unsettles the boundary between scandal, true crime, sensation, actuality and fictionality. Published in Shanghai, it is representative of the roles that Chinese movie magazines played in the making of Chinese cinephiles (yingmi 影迷). The first film periodical published in Hong Kong, Silver Light (Yin Guang 銀光), showcases indigenous film writing of Hong Kong between 1926 and 1927. ...
  • Resource logoChinese cinema from Oxford Bibliographies Online by Yingjin Zhang
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    Call Number: Electronic resource
    ISBN: 9780199791286
    Chinese cinema in this bibliography covers Chinese-language cinema, including films in Mandarin, Cantonese, and Taiwanese (or Minnan dialect) as well as Sinophone productions by the Chinese diasporas.
  • Resource logoChinese language film from Oxford Bibliographies Online - Chinese Studies by Julian Ward
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    Call Number: Electronic resource
    ISBN: 9780199920082
    International interest in Chinese cinema in the late 20th and early 21st centuries is often traced back to the showing of Chen Kaige’s 'Yellow Earth' at the Hong Kong Film Festival in 1985. Since then the number of publications from academics and film critics has grown steadily, and the teaching of Chinese cinema has spread through universities and, to a lesser extent, schools across the world.
  • Resource logoTransnational and diasporic cinema from Oxford Bibliographies Online by Ramona Curry
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    Call Number: Electronic resource
    ISBN: 9780199791286
    Although from the earliest years film production, marketing, and reception involved extensive national border crossing, the rubric “transnational cinema” has emerged only comparatively recently. Taken up from other disciplines such as anthropology and migration and postcolonial studies, the concept of “transnational” in this still-emerging area of cinema studies remains highly varied, pointing to sometimes contested working definitions and analytic approaches.

Introduction to Chinese cinema

Early cinema in China was dominated by foreign imports, especially from the US. An early US co-production, Nan fu nan qi/An Unfortunate Couple was made in Shanghai in 1913. That film’s director, Zhang Shichuan, also produced and directed the earliest locally produced film, Hei ji yuan hun/Wronged Ghosts in an Opium Den (1916) and the earliest surviving film, Zhi guo yuan/Romance of A Fruit Pedlar (1922). In parallel with similar developments in Hong Kong, by the 1930s, a number of film companies had become established in Shanghai, with Mingxing and Lianhua the largest. Films about city life and adaptations of Chinese traditional cultural forms such as the Beijing Opera were popular with audiences.

Japanese invasion of Manchuria in 1931 provoked a rise in Chinese nationalism and communist activism, and an influx of left-wing artists and intellectuals into the film industry ensured a pronounced political dimension in films of the 1930s; Chun can/Spring Silkworms (Cheng Bugao, 1933) and Dalu/The Big Road (Sun Yu, 1935), for example, combined the songs and comedy of popular genre films with comment on Japanese aggression and class struggle. The period from 1932 is widely regarded as a first golden age of Chinese cinema, with a robust film industry producing popular and political fare, and with Ruan Lingyu, ‘the Chinese Garbo’, a successful star. Malu tianshi/Street Angel (Yuan Mu-jih, 1937) and Shizi jietou/Crossroads (Shen Xiling, 1937) are considered classics of the period.   ...

Kuhn, A., & Westwell, G. (2020). China, film in. In A Dictionary of Film Studies. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 15 Aug. 2022

In the Library's collections

The diaspora of Chinese filmmaking is wide. You have the Peoples Republic of China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Chinese filmmakers living in Thailand, the United States, Europe and elsewhere. Below are some of the subject headings to help you narrow your searching.

  • motion pictures china
    Call number range PN 1993.5 .C5 on Baker Level 4.
  • motion pictures china history
  • motion pictures, chinese
  • chinese in motion pictures
  • motion picture producers and directors china
  • women motion picture directors and producers china
  • china in motion pictures

Introductory reading(s)

  • Cover artChinese-language film: historiography, poetics, politics by Sheldon H. Lu; Emilie Y. Yeh, eds.
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1993.5 .C4 C463 2005
    ISBN: 9780824828134
    This volume, the most comprehensive work to date on Chinese film, explores the manifold dimensions of the subject and highlights areas overlooked in previous studies. Leading scholars take up issues and topics covering the entire range of Chinese cinema. Their cross-cultural engagements with individual films, accomplished with an acute sense of chronology and history, tackle questions of issues related to historiography, poetics, aesthetics, genres, and directorial styles; at the same time, they address the economics of film production and consumption as well as the cultural politics of globalization, identity, subjectivity, nationality, citizenship, and gender formation as embodied in filmic texts.
  • Cover artThe Chinese cinema book by Song Hwee Lim; Julian Ward, eds.
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1993.5 .C4 C4422 2020
    ISBN: 9781911239529
    Publication Date: 2nd ed.
    This revised and updated new edition provides a comprehensive introduction to the history of cinema in mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, as well as to disaporic and transnational Chinese film-making, from the beginnings of cinema to the present day. ...
  • Cover artChinese national cinema by Yingjin Zhang
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    • E-Book
    Call Number: eBook
    ISBN: 9780415172905
    This introduction to Chinese national cinema covers three 'Chinas': mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. Historical and comparative perspectives bring out the parallel developments in these three Chinas, while critical analysis explores thematic and stylistic changes over time. As well as exploring artistic achievements and ideological debates, Yingjin Zhang examines how - despite the pressures placed on the industry from state control and rigid censorship - Chinese national cinema remains incapable of projecting a single unified picture, but rather portrays many different Chinas.
  • Cover artEarly film culture in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Republican China by Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh, ed.
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    • E-Book
    Call Number: eBook
    ISBN: 9780472901029
    This volume features new work on cinema in early twentieth-century Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Republican China. Looking beyond relatively well-studied cities like Shanghai, these essays foreground cinema's relationship with imperialism and colonialism and emphasize the rapid development of cinema as a sociocultural institution. These essays examine where films were screened; how cinema-going as a social activity adapted from and integrated with existing social norms and practices; the extent to which Cantonese opera and other regional performance traditions were models for the development of cinematic conventions; the role foreign films played in the development of cinema as an industry in the Republican era; and much more.
  • Cover artThe Oxford handbook of Chinese cinemas by Carlos Rojas; Eileen Chow, eds.
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    • E-Book
    Call Number: eBook
    ISBN: 9780199765607
    What does it mean for a cinematic work to be "Chinese"? Does it refer specifically to a work's subject, or does it also reflect considerations of language, ethnicity, nationality, ideology, or political orientation? Such questions make any single approach to a vast field like "Chinese cinema" difficult at best. Accordingly, The Oxford Handbook of Chinese Cinemas situates the term more broadly among various different phases, genres, and distinct national configurations, while taking care to address the consequences of grouping together so many disparate histories under a single banner. ...
  • Cover artSpeaking in images: interviews with contemporary Chinese filmmakers by Michael Berry
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1993.5 .C4 B49 2005
    ISBN: 9780231133302
    Speaking in Images offers an engaging and rare collection of interviews with the directors who have changed the face of Chinese and international cinema. Michael Berry's discussions with such directors as Ang Lee, Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige, Stanley Kwan, Tsai Ming-Liang, Edward Yang, and Hou Hsiao-hsien offer an eclectic and comprehensive portrait of contemporary Chinese cinema. ...
  • Cover artTransnational Chinese cinemas: identity, nationhood, gender by Sheldon Hsiao-peng Lu
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1993.5 .C4 T65 1997
    ISBN: 9780824818456
    Zhang Yimou's first film, Red Sorghum, took the Golden Bear Award in 1988 at the Berlin International Film Festival. Since then Chinese films have continued to arrest worldwide attention and capture major film awards, winning an international following that continues to grow. Transnational Chinese Cinemas spans nearly the entire length of twentieth-century Chinese film history. The volume traces the evolution of Chinese national cinema, and demonstrates that gender identity has been central to its formation. Femininity, masculinity and sexuality have been an integral part of the filmic discourses of modernity, nationhood, and history. ...

Selected book title(s)

  • Cover artHistorical dictionary of Chinese cinema by Tan Ye; Yun Zhu
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1993.5 .C4 Y43 2012
    ISBN: 9780810879133
    Motion pictures were first introduced to China in 1896 and today China has become a major player in the film industry. However, the story of how Chinese cinema became what it is today is an exceptionally turbulent one. It encompasses incursions by foreign powers, warfare among contending rulers, the collapse of the Chinese empire, and the massive setback of the Cultural Revolution. The Historical Dictionary of Chinese Cinema covers the history of Chinese cinema from its very beginning in 1896 to the present. This is done through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section contains several hundred cross-referenced dictionary entries on films, directors, and historical figures. ...
  • Cover artNew Chinese cinemas: forms, identities, politics by Vivian Sobchack; Nick Browne; Paul G. Pickowicz; Esther Yau, eds.
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1993.5 .C4 N49 1994
    ISBN: 9780521444095
    New Chinese Cinemas analyses the changing forms and significance of film-making in the People's Republic of China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong since the end of the Cultural Revolution, with a particular emphasis on how film comments on the profound social changes that have occurred in East Asia over the past two decades. ...
  • Cover artPainting the city red: Chinese cinema and the urban contract by Yomi Braester
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    • E-Book
    Call Number: eBook
    ISBN: 9780822347231
    Painting the City Red illuminates the dynamic relationship between the visual media, particularly film and theater, and the planning and development of cities in China and Taiwan, from the emergence of the People's Republic in 1949 to the staging of the Beijing Olympics in 2008.
  • Cover artRemade in Hollywood: the global Chinese presence in transnational cinemas by Kenneth Chan
    • On Campus or VPN
    • E-Book
    Call Number: eBook
    ISBN: 9789622090552
    The dramatic surge of Chinese visibility in Hollywood has been spurred by Sino-chic talents such as directors Ang Lee, John Woo, Wong Kar-wai, Wayne Wang, and Zhang Yimou, and stars such as Jackie Chan, Jet Li, Chow Yun-fat, Gong Li, Zhang Ziyi, and Michelle Yeoh. Analyzing well-known films by Chinese stars and crew, and the influence they have had on Hollywood directors, Kenneth Chan describes how post-1997 notions of Chinese identity and cultural genres have been reinvented and repackaged by major US studios. Highlighting numerous contradictions and cultural anxieties evident in transnational Hollywood films, Chan suggests that many Chinese stars and directors have made painful compromises to get their films successfully launched into the global capitalist stream of cultural commodities.
  • Cover artThe Rey Chow reader by Rey Chow; Paul Bowman, ed.
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry CB 430 .C4975 2010
    ISBN: 9780231149952
    Rey Chow is arguably one of the most prominent intellectuals working in the humanities today. Characteristically confronting both entrenched and emergent issues in the interlocking fields of literature, film and visual studies, sexuality and gender, postcolonialism, ethnicity, and cross-cultural politics, her works produce surprising connections among divergent topics at the same time as they compel us to think through the ethical and political ramifications of our academic, epistemic, and cultural practices. ...
  • Cover artScreening China: critical interventions, cinematic reconfigurations, and the transnational imaginary in contemporary Chinese cinema by Yingjin Zhang
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1993.5 .C4 Z54 2002
    ISBN: 9780892641581
    When Chinese films are screened in the West, viewers often prize, debate, and critique the "Chineseness" presented therein. Critics, scholars, and cultural theorists, too, latch onto the ethnic and cultural markers in Chinese film, often applying their theories as if they were universally applicable and even independent of history. They study only a small number of films from a large body of available works, often with a unidirectional Eurocentric bias. As a result, Chinese filmmakers are caught between the Western consumer and critical demand for ethnic and cultural images and the local restrictions of economics and politics. Screening China follows filmmakers' efforts to reconfigure China and position their work between the global and the local. ...
  • Cover artSulian ying xiang yu Zhongguo "17 nian" dian ying = Influence from the Soviet Union and the Chinese "17-year" films by Hong Hong
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry East Asian PN 1993.5 .C4 H58 2008
    ... this book is a detailed inquiry into the influence of the Soviet Union on the films of China produced between 1949 and 1966, often referred to as the "17 year" period. After 1949, when China as a new born People’s Republic was looking towards its big brother, the Soviet Union, for guidance in every aspect of nation building, it is no surprise that art and literature too was influenced by the Soviet model. ...
  • Cover artWomen filmmakers in sinophone world cinema by Zhen Zhang
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    Call Number: eBook
    ISBN: 9789463729352
    Women Filmmakers in Sinophone World Cinema portrays a group of important contemporary women filmmakers working across the Sinophone world including Taiwan, Hong Kong, mainland China, and beyond. The book delineates and conceptualizes their cinematic and trans-media practices within an evolving, multifaceted feminist intimate-public commons. The films by these experienced and emerging filmmakers, including Huang Yu-shan, Yau Ching, Ai Xiaoming, Wen Hui, Huang Ji and others, represent some of the most innovative and socially engaged work in both fictional and non-fictional modes in Chinese-language cinema as well as global women's cinema. ...

Finding scholarly articles & journal title(s)

Articles and other writings about Chinese language films can be found in many publications. Our collection includes 2 journals which look exclusively at Chinese language cinema. You can use Film & Television Literature Index to find articles or use the search box at the top of the page.

  • Issue cover artJournal of Chinese cinemas by Taylor & Francis
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    Call Number: Electronic journal
    Journal of Chinese Cinemas is a major refereed academic publication devoted to the study of film and media as practiced in Chinese-speaking communities. They consider submissions on any aspect of production, distribution, and reception. They especially welcome essays based on original archival research and/or exploring cross-cultural manifestations of mediation. Objects of study include, but are not limited to, commercial releases, independent films, videos, video art, animation, new media, exhibition conditions, and texts and debates. ...
  • Da zhong dian ying
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry East Asian PN 1993 .T2
  • Resource logoFilm & television literature index by EBSCO Publishing
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    • Database
    Call Number: Electronic resource
    Use this index to find articles about this national cinema.
  • Resource logoBibliography of Asian studies
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    • Database
    Call Number: Electronic resource
    This database has citations to western-language journal articles, book chapters, conference proceedings, anthologies, Festschriften, etc. about to East, Southeast, and South Asia.
  • Resource logoMedia history digital library by Wisconsin Center for Film & Theater Research
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    • Database
    Call Number: Electronic resource
    The Media History Digital Library digitizes collections of classic media periodicals that belong in the public domain for full public access. The project is supported by owners of materials who loan them for scanning, and donors who contribute funds to cover the cost of scanning.

    The Collection feature extensive runs of several important trade papers and fan magazines.
  • Resource logoScreen studies collection by ProQuest
    • On Campus or VPN
    • Database
    Call Number: Electronic resource
    A comprehensive survey of current publications related to film scholarship alongside detailed filmographies. This collection includes the FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals Database and the detailed and complementary filmographies created by the American Film Institute (AFI) and the British Film Institute.
  • Resource logoThe web of science citation databases by ISI (Institute for Scientific Information)
    • On Campus or VPN
    • Database
    Call Number: Electronic resource
    The online version of 3 separate ISI indexes: Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index and, Social Sciences Citation Index.

Selected movie titles

Find more Chinese film titles in the library's online catalog.

  • Movie poster artJinling shi san chai = The flowers of war by Zhang Yimou
    • DVD
    Call Number: Jones Media DVD #14802
    The dangerous streets of Nanjing throw together a group of opposites, a flock of shell-shocked schoolchildren, a dozen seductive courtesans, and a renegade American posing as a priest to save his own skin, or so he thinks, all seeking safety behind a walled cathedral. Trapped by marauding soldiers, over the next few days the prejudices and divides between them will fall away as they unite around a last ditch plan to protect the children from impending catastrophe.
  • Movie poster artMei li Shanghai = Shanghai story by Peng Xiaolian
    • DVD
    Call Number: Jones Media DVD #6493
    ISBN: 9787880814804
    Four siblings are reunited when their mother falls and hurts herself. After being apart for 10 years they have a lot of catching up to do.
  • Movie poster artNanjing! Nanjing! = City of life and death by Lu Chuan
    • DVD
    Call Number: Jones Media DVD #13679
    On December 9, 1937, the Imperial Japanese Army laid siege to the Chinese capital of Nanking, beginning a reign of terror that killed as many as 300,000 civilians, an infamous tragedy now referred to as the Rape of Nanking. The first big-budget fiction film by the Chinese to deal with the seminal event in their modern history, City of Life and Death is a visceral, heartbreaking portrait of life during wartime, and an unforgettable masterpiece of contemporary world cinema.
  • Movie poster artA soul haunted by painting = Hua Hun by Huang Shuqin
    • DVD
    Call Number: Jones Media DVD #5869
    ISBN: 9781565804081
    In the late 1920s, a woman painter specializing in nude painting returns from France to China to teach her skills but finds that the art form is being heavily condemned by the general public and the government. In dismay, she leaves her husband several years later and returns to France to pursue her career.
  • Movie poster artThe story of Qiu Ju = Qiuju da guan si by Zhang Yimou
    • DVD
    Call Number: Jones Media DVD #7364
    ISBN: 9781424806171
    In a small Chinese village a farmer (Qing Lai) and his chief quarrel over land. When Qing Lai is injured by the chief, who kicks him in the groin, Qing's wife Qiu Ju begins a quixotic odyssey that takes her from her small village to the provincial capital. She is relentless in her one-woman crusade to wreak a simple justice from the proud Chief ... she wants him to apologize.
  • Movie poster artThe woman knight of Mirror Lake by Herman Yau
    • DVD
    Call Number: Jones Media DVD #14668
    In late 19th century China, Qui Jin was many things: a defiant rebel armed with both blades and guns; a paramilitary leader dedicated to overthrowing an unjust government; a non-conformist who boldly donned men's attire in spite of tradition; a radical poet whose words inspired the oppressed; a heroic martyr whose views on equality altered history. Her steadfast resolve to improve the plight of women and her bravery in the face of tyranny led her to the executioner--but her determination to topple the status quo changed a nation forever.
  • Movie poster artYing xiong = Hero by Zhang Yimou
    • DVD
    Call Number: Jones Media DVD #6563
    ISBN: 9780788857034
    With supernatural skill and no fear a nameless soldier embarks on a mission of revenge against the fearsome army that massacred his people. Now, to achieve the justice he seeks, he must take on the empire's most ruthless assassins and reach the enemy he has sworn to defeat.

Internet resource(s)

  • British film institute logo
    A Century of Chinese Cinema: an introduction
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    From the 1930s golden age via kung-fu and swordplay epics to new waves and the modern era, we introduce the five sections that make up our huge, four-month celebration of 100 years of filmmaking in China. ...
  • Archive-It logo
    Independent Documentary Filmmakers from China, Hong Kong and Taiwan web archive
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    Chinese independent documentary filmmakers from mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong have been crucial to bring attention to social and political developments. Their projects are important primary source material for the study of contemporary China, and support institutions’ programs on contemporary China studies. Because of the sensitive nature of their work, their web presences are at risk to disappear at any time. ...

Keeping up with the journal literature

Want an easy way to keep up with the journal literature for a national or regional cinema? And you use a mobile device? You can install the BrowZine app and create a custom Bookshelf of your favorite journal titles. Then you will get the Table of Contents (ToCs) of your favorite journals automatically delivered to you when they become available. Once you have the ToC's you can download and read the articles you want.

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Don't own or use a mobile device? You can still use BrowZine! It's now available in a web version. You can get to it here. The web version works the same way as the app version. Find the journals you like, create a custom Bookshelf, get ToCs and read the articles you want.

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