CineAction articles from January 2003

CineAction archives from January 2003

East Asian Cinemas.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... It is a sign of the times when a call for papers on Asian Cinemas produces an avalanche of proposals from a multitude of countries. In comparison, a few years ago, when I did an issue of CineAction on Chinese Films (#42), the response had been...

A Tale of two emperors: mimicry and mimesis in two "new year's" films from China and Hong Kong.
January 1, 2003... Since at least the mid-1990s, a sense of fin-de-siecle nostalgia has become apparent in many dimensions of Chinese culture, and one of the most iconic symbols of this nostalgia is the current fascination with early twentieth-century "calendar...

Hollywood and the Chinese other.
January 1, 2003... In the post-colonial era, Hollywood films have often been treated by scholars on both sides of the Pacific as a form of cultural invasion; and the Chinese "Other," the reluctant victim of this invasion. My discursive review of the interaction...

To live and dye in China: The personal and the political in Zhang Yimou's Judou.
January 1, 2003... "You should have plugged it up." Tianqing to Judou (in Judou) The allegorical content in many of Zhang Yimou's films has frequently been acknowledged: gruesome past standing in for repressive present; feudal-era subjugation of women...

An interview with Jia Zhangke.
January 1, 2003... With his second feature film Platform [Zhantai, 2000], Chinese director Jia Zhangke established himself as the leading filmmaker of his generation in the People's Republic of China. Born in 1970 in a small town in Shanxi Province, Jia attended...

Three Japanese actresses of the 1950s: modernity, femininity and the performance of everyday life.
January 1, 2003... Japan in the 1950s was a period of accelerated social transformation as a new generation came of age in the wake of the seven-year American occupation. The so-called "golden age" of Japanese cinema corresponds to a time when a national culture...

Looking for nostalgia: memory and national identity in Hou Hsiao-Hsien's a time to live, a time to die.
January 1, 2003... Hou Hsiao-Hsien is generally regarded as the most important director in Taiwanese New Wave Cinema. His films made between 1983 and 1996 have a consistent focus on Taiwan's past that mark them as the most important materials dealing with...

The halfway house of memory: an interview with Hirokazu Kore-eda.
January 1, 2003... Hirokazu Kore-eda's first film, Lessons from a Calf (1991), ends with a resonant shot of empty space. Only a floorboard remains of a cow's stall, from when the fifth graders of Ina Elementary School cared for the animal. The image commemorates...

South Korean film genres and art-house anti-poetics: Erasure and Negation in the power Kangwon Province.
January 1, 2003... At the end of Les Mots et les choses, his breathtaking tour through four centuries worth of epistemological structures and institutional practices, Michel Foucault ruminates on the possible outcome of the modern episteme. Since the...