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Introduction: The Fantastic as Sino-Enchantment in Contemporary Chinese Cinemas 引言:《梦幻般的中国——当代中国电影的魅力》
Sino-Enchantment Pub Date : 2021-06-30 DOI: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474460842.003.0001
K. Chan, Andrew Stuckey
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Domesticity, Sentimentality and Otherness: The Boundary of the Human in Monster Hunt 家庭性、多愁善感与他者性:《捉妖记》中人类的边界
Sino-Enchantment Pub Date : 2021-06-30 DOI: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474460842.003.0011
Mei Yang
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The Sacred Spectacle: Subverting Scepticism in Tsui Hark’s Detective Dee Films 神圣的奇观:徐克狄仁杰电影中的颠覆怀疑主义
Sino-Enchantment Pub Date : 2021-06-30 DOI: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474460842.003.0009
I. Pettigrew
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Heroic Human Pixels: Mass Ornaments and Digital Multitudes in Zhang Yimou’s Spectacles 英雄像素:张艺谋眼镜中的大众装饰与数字大众
Sino-Enchantment Pub Date : 2021-06-30 DOI: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474460842.003.0002
Jason McGrath
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The Restrained Fantastic in Hou Hsiao-hsien’s The Assassin 侯孝贤《刺客聂隐娘》中克制的幻想
Sino-Enchantment Pub Date : 2021-06-30 DOI: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474460842.003.0005
Andrew Stuckey
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Almost Wild, But Not Quite: The Indexical and the Fantastic Animal Other in China-Co-Produced (Eco)Cinema 近乎狂野，但不完全狂野:《指数》和《神奇动物Other》在中国的联合制作(生态)电影
Sino-Enchantment Pub Date : 2021-06-30 DOI: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474460842.003.0010
Yiman Wang
{"title":"Almost Wild, But Not Quite: The Indexical and the Fantastic Animal Other in China-Co-Produced (Eco)Cinema","authors":"Yiman Wang","doi":"10.3366/edinburgh/9781474460842.003.0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474460842.003.0010","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter studies two recent Chinese co-productions, Born in China (2016) and Wolf Totem (2015), which foreground the construction of the indexical and the fantastic wildlife in the very process of renegotiating the parameters of Chinese cinema. Navigating multilayered boundaries between ethnicities, species, and media industries, I analyse how the two films construct and address the tension between and intertwinement of the indexical and the fantastic wildlife. I describe the films’ de-anthropocentric impulse, articulated through technological mediation, as almost wild, but not quite. More specifically, I argue that Wolf Totem features ‘cultivated wildness’, while Born in China depends on ‘intercepted wildness’. Both bespeak fantastic ecocinematic consciousness without carrying it to full fruition.","PeriodicalId":273378,"journal":{"name":"Sino-Enchantment","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127160623","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Coda: Sino-Enchantment in a Time of Crisis 结束语:危机时期的中国魅力
Sino-Enchantment Pub Date : 2021-06-30 DOI: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474460842.003.0013
K. Chan, Andrew Stuckey
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Tracing the Science Fiction Genre in Hong Kong Cinema 追溯香港电影的科幻类型
Sino-Enchantment Pub Date : 2021-06-30 DOI: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474460842.003.0007
T. Cunliffe
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An Auteurist Journey through the Fantastic Mode: A Case Study of Ho Meng-hua 怪诞模式的导演之旅——以何梦华为例
Sino-Enchantment Pub Date : 2021-06-30 DOI: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474460842.003.0006
S. Chao
{"title":"An Auteurist Journey through the Fantastic Mode: A Case Study of Ho Meng-hua","authors":"S. Chao","doi":"10.3366/edinburgh/9781474460842.003.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474460842.003.0006","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter uses Hong Kong commercial filmmaker Ho Meng-hua and his fantastic work to address three main lines of inquiry: the articulations of the fantastic mode across different genres, the kinds of mise-en-scène of desire facilitated by the public forms of generic conventions, and the sorts of preferred subject positions animated by different kinds of mise-en-scène of desire in question. Along with the particular manoeuvre of the fantastic mode across three key genres (fantasy adventure, martial arts and horror genres), coupled with a changing formulation of the fantastic’s double appeal to what the author terms ‘fantastic impossibility’ and ‘spectacular probability’, this chapter comes to the conclusion that Ho Meng-hua’s career at Shaws studio during the 1960s and 1970s reflected the way the Hong Kong people negotiated their distinct subjectivity in a transnational framework, which is the socio-political significance of the fantastic mode in its Hong Kong articulation.","PeriodicalId":273378,"journal":{"name":"Sino-Enchantment","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115217789","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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The Spectacle of Co-Production in The Great Wall 《长城》的合拍片奇观
Sino-Enchantment Pub Date : 2021-06-30 DOI: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474460842.003.0003
Dan North
{"title":"The Spectacle of Co-Production in The Great Wall","authors":"Dan North","doi":"10.3366/edinburgh/9781474460842.003.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474460842.003.0003","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter offers a case study of Zhang Yimou’s film The Great Wall (2017) and the way it became emblematic of debates around co-productions between China and other filmmaking nations, especially the USA. Principally, it analyses the way visual effects are used to present fantastic imagery that shapes the visual identity of the film through a blend of Chinese and Hollywood conventions. A burgeoning visual effects industry in Chinese cinema, sustained by a wider interest in fantasy films, consumer electronics and the international marketability of visual spectacle, serves as a site of contest and cooperation, where national and cultural symbols are rendered with a combination of state-of-the-art technology and quasi-ancient designs. The production histories of The Great Wall, and the critical discourses accompanying its reception, illustrate how visual effects give visual form to the material infrastructure of film, inflected by the cultural contexts in which they are made, even as they work to efface and conceal the traces of their own manufacture.","PeriodicalId":273378,"journal":{"name":"Sino-Enchantment","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116515853","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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