Chris Berry Bücher

Perspectives of Chinese Cinema is a revised and much expanded edition of a pioneering work, bringing together the best of contemporary critical writing on Chinese cinema from an international range of distinguished contributors. It offers a broad and revealing view of Chinese cinema past and present, with particular emphasis on films of the new wave, "Fifth Generation" directors such as Yellow Earth and Red Sorghum, and on the political and economic struggles they face.

Chinese cinema continues to go from strength to strength.  After art-house hits like Yellow Earth and In the Mood for Love, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon launched the new century by disproving the old myth that subtitled films could not succeed at the multiplex.  Chinese Films in Focus II updates and expands its predecessor: Chinese Films in Focus: 25 New Takes with fourteen new essays, providing, in total, 35 in-depth and original readings of an individual Chinese film.  Films from Mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and other parts of the diaspora are all represented, and the historical coverage ranges from the 1930s to the present.Leading international experts including Rey Chow, Yingjin Zhang, Berenice Reynaud, Kam Louie and Mary Farquhar join younger scholars to address significant and popular films  such as Hero, Farewell My Concubine, Chungking Express, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Blind Shaft, Suzhou River and many more.  This volume will be essential reading for students and fans of Chinese cinema.