Sino-EnchantmentPub Date : 2021-06-30DOI: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474460842.003.0004
Li Yang
{"title":"The Blockbuster Breakthrough: The Fantastic in Hero","authors":"Li Yang","doi":"10.3366/edinburgh/9781474460842.003.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474460842.003.0004","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter identifies the fantastic as a crucial element that makes Zhang Yimou’s Hero (2002) the first successful locally grown blockbuster in China. In addition to a high budget and all-star cast, Hero distinguished itself from many previous failed blockbuster attempts though a “fantastic” makeover that turned a household historical tale into an enthralling viewing experience featuring mythicised narrative and spectacular visuals. The fantastic energy, unleashed by the adoption of the beloved martial arts film genre, helped to find the optimal aesthetic solution to the imported blockbuster financial model and to land the film at the balance point between art and commerce. The result was a stylistically unique, yet crowd-pleasing, local blockbuster that channelled the wonderous exhibitionist impulse of early cinema and ushered Chinese commercial cinema into a new era.","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":"133895745","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}
Sino-EnchantmentPub Date : 2021-06-30DOI: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474460842.003.0008
Elaine Chung
{"title":"Chick Flick Fantasy and Postfeminism in Chinese Cinema: 20 Once Again as a Transnational Remake","authors":"Elaine Chung","doi":"10.3366/edinburgh/9781474460842.003.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474460842.003.0008","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter analyses chick flick fantasy as an emerging film genre in mainland Chinese cinema. It borrows the Hollywood-derived framework to read this hybridised genre with the concept of postfeminism. After surveying the rise of the chick flick fantasy in multiple Chinese media platforms, this chapter explores how the socio-cultural meanings of the global genre evolve when it travels across national borders to mainland China. From an inter-Asian perspective, it studies the case of 20 Once Again (2015), the Chinese remake of the South Korean film Miss Granny (2014), which together constitute also one of the best-selling Chinese-Korean films. It examines how the two versions, telling the same story, characterise their female protagonists with fantastical devices and generate distinctive gender discourses.","PeriodicalId":273378,"journal":{"name":"Sino-Enchantment","volume":"72 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":"127581544","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}
Sino-EnchantmentPub Date : 2021-06-30DOI: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474460842.003.0012
K. Chan
{"title":"Transforming Tripitaka: Toward a (Buddhist) Planetary Ethics in Stephen Chow’s Adaptation of Journey to the West","authors":"K. Chan","doi":"10.3366/edinburgh/9781474460842.003.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474460842.003.0012","url":null,"abstract":"In studying Stephen Chow’s innovative reimagining of the Chinese literary and religious classic Journey to the West, this chapter begins by considering the intersections between global Buddhism, Sino-enchantment and the numerous cinematic adaptations of the Ming dynasty classic. Director Chow inverts the epic scope of the literary work by focusing on the personal quotidian specificities of relationality and alterity, accomplished by opening the film within the context of a small idyllic fishing village. He then allows the film to zoom out into the universal, as the Monkey King battles the Buddha. This inverted narrative structure lends the film a planetary ethics of feeling and connection between human and nonhuman life. Through Sino-enchantment as an interpretive lens, this chapter rethinks love and compassion in a posthuman era, thus making Journey to the West relevant to contemporary audiences.","PeriodicalId":273378,"journal":{"name":"Sino-Enchantment","volume":"17 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":"117109801","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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