Postcolonialism, diaspora, and alternative histories : the cinema of Evans Chan
INITIAL_TITLE_SRCH:
Postcolonialism, diaspora, and alternative histories : the cinema of Evans Chan
AUTHOR:
Williams, Tony, 1946 January 11-
ISBN:
9789888208166
PUBLICATION_INFO:
Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, c2015.
PHYSICAL_DESC:
xii, 169 p., [16] p. of plates : col. ill. ; 24 cm. + 2 videodiscs (4 3/4 in.)
GENERAL_NOTE:
2 videodiscs attached to Barcode 00653464 are lost.
ABSTRACT:
This volume offers the first comprehensive survey of the cinema of Evans Chan, a New York-based playwright, author, and filmmaker whose acclaimed films include To Liv(e), The Map of Sex and Love, and Datong. In this collection of essays on Chan's documentary and feature films seven experts on cultural and film studies examine the unique blending of fictional representation, historical investigation, and critical essayism that characterize Chan's oeuvre. They discuss how Chan's work brings out the contradictory nature of the distant and recent past through his exploration of Hong Kong's rapid t.
Contributors; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; 1: Introduction to the Work of Evans Chan; 2: The Film Essay and Political Discourse in Evans Chan's 'To Liv(e)'; 3: 'Crossings'; 4: Homelessness and Self-Disclosure; 5: "Absurd Connections, " or Cosmopolitan Conviviality in 'The Map of Sex and Love'; 6: Issues of Decolonization; 7: Brecht in Hong Kong; 8: Sound and Vision; 9: Global Aches; 10: An Interview with Evans Chan; Filmography; Selected Bibliography; Index.
PERSONAL_SUBJECT:
SUBJECT:
| Motion picture producers and directors -- China -- Hong Kong. |
| Motion pictures -- China -- Hong Kong. |
| Postcolonialism in motion pictures. |
| Emigration and immigration in motion pictures. |
| Chen, Yaocheng -- Criticism and interpretation. |
BIBSUMMARY:
This volume offers the first comprehensive survey of the cinema of Evans Chan, a New York-based playwright, author, and filmmaker whose acclaimed films include To Liv(e), The Map of Sex and Love, and Datong. In this collection of essays on Chan's documentary and feature films seven experts on cultural and film studies examine the unique blending of fictional representation, historical investigation, and critical essayism that characterize Chan's oeuvre. They discuss how Chan's work brings out the contradictory nature of the distant and recent past through his exploration of Hong Kong's rapid t.
Contributors; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; 1: Introduction to the Work of Evans Chan; 2: The Film Essay and Political Discourse in Evans Chan's 'To Liv(e)'; 3: 'Crossings'; 4: Homelessness and Self-Disclosure; 5: "Absurd Connections, " or Cosmopolitan Conviviality in 'The Map of Sex and Love'; 6: Issues of Decolonization; 7: Brecht in Hong Kong; 8: Sound and Vision; 9: Global Aches; 10: An Interview with Evans Chan; Filmography; Selected Bibliography; Index.