In Cinema Approaching Reality, Victor Fan brings together, for the first time, Chinese and Euro-American film theories and theorists to engage in critical debates about film in Shanghai and Hong Kong from the 1920s through the 1940s. His point of departure is a term popularly employed by Chinese film critics during this period, bizhen, often translated as “lifelike” but best un...(展开全部)

In Cinema Approaching Reality, Victor Fan brings together, for the first time, Chinese and Euro-American film theories and theorists to engage in critical debates about film in Shanghai and Hong Kong from the 1920s through the 1940s. His point of departure is a term popularly employed by Chinese film critics during this period, bizhen, often translated as “lifelike” but best un...(展开全部)

In Cinema Approaching Reality, Victor Fan brings together, for the first time, Chinese and Euro-American film theories and theorists to engage in critical debates about film in Shanghai and Hong Kong from the 1920s through 1940s. His point of departure is a term popularly employed by Chinese film critics during this period, bizhen, often translated as “lifelike” but best unders...(展开全部)

For centuries the sub-national languages of China have been a fundamental feature in daily life and popular culture, while a standardized form of Mandarin has been adopted as the language of the state (including education). Suppressed during powerful movements to establish a modern, national culture, these local languages or dialects have nevertheless survived, and their resurg...(展开全部)

【美】约瑟夫•安德森，著名日本电影史专家。 【美】唐纳德•里奇，1924年出生于美国，日本电影、文化专家。1947年，唐纳德里奇随军来到日本东京。很快，他就对日本文化、特别是日本电影产生了浓厚的兴趣，并开始尝试写作影评。1959年，他出版了《日本电影：艺术与工业》。之后，里奇发飙了大量介绍、论述日本电影及社会的专著和文章，开始了长达半个多世纪的日本文化情缘。

作者简介 奥蒂·波克(Audie Bock)，20世纪美国著名电影研究学者，在日本生活多年，翻译黑泽明自传，撰写成濑巳喜男导演专论。 译者简介 张汉辉，笔名连城，杂志编辑，业余从事翻译，译作有《小津》、《乡关何处贾樟柯的故乡三部曲》、《日本恐怖电影》等。

A fascinating story of writing across cultures and time While other ancient nonalphabetic scripts—Sumerian cuneiform, Egyptian hieroglyphs, and Mayan hieroglyphs—are long extinct, Chinese characters, invented over three thousand years ago, are today used by well over a billion people to write Chinese and Japanese. In medieval East Asia, the written Classical Chinese language kn...(展开全部)

A fascinating story of writing across cultures and time While other ancient nonalphabetic scripts—Sumerian cuneiform, Egyptian hieroglyphs, and Mayan hieroglyphs—are long extinct, Chinese characters, invented over three thousand years ago, are today used by well over a billion people to write Chinese and Japanese. In medieval East Asia, the written Classical Chinese language kn...(展开全部)

The book shows the connections between Japanese historical avant-garde movements and new Japanese experimental films. The author provides insight into the development of Japanese avant-garde visual culture and experimental aesthetics, also featuring the expanded cinema after 2000. The author focuses on the detailed presentation of the chosen aspects, artists and films of the Ja...(展开全部)