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Postcolonialism, diaspora, and alternative histories : the cinema of Evans Chan / edited by Tony Williams.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (200 pages, 15 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), photographsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789888313488 (e-book)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Postcolonialism, diaspora, and alternative histories : the cinema of Evans Chan.DDC classification:
  • 791.4302330951 23
LOC classification:
  • PN1995.9.P7 .P678 2015
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Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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CHOICE Review

This is the first volume devoted to Hong Kong independent filmmaker Evans Chan. Williams (Southern Illinois Univ., Carbondale) includes nine essays and an interview he conducted with Chan. The essays view Chan not only as a director concerned with Chinese issues but also as a diasporic talent with a place in international film criticism. Chan has been labeled the "Chinese Godard," since his works are visual essays. Perhaps the most interesting essay in the collection belongs to Kenneth Chan (no relation), who examines the filmmaker's sense of connection in the film The Map of Sex and Love, which reflects his transnationalism and cosmopolitanism over and beyond the concerns about China's politics and oppression of democratic critics. For those interested in gender study, Stacilee Ford's contribution on teaching Bauhinia clearly transcribes students' reactions to the subject of the "one child" rule in China. The two DVDs include five of Chan's films. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty. --Allan Hirsh, Central Connecticut State University

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