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This collection of essays on transnational Chinese cinema explores the corporal, psychological, and affective aspects of experiencing bodies on screen; engages with the material and discursive elements of embodiment; and highlights the dynamics between the mind and body involved in bio-cultural practices of cinematic production, distribution, exhibition, and reception.

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-Transnational Chinese Cinema touches the edge of previously unexplored grounds, providing new perspectives on the ways films can be read. By incorporating the sensibilities of scholars adept in film theory, embodiment studies, philosophy and cultural studies, the collection engages insightfully with Chinese cinema, charting the way we encounter transnational Chinese cinema and how we in turn interact with it.- --Roy Lee, Singapore Review of Books -An impressive body of extraordinary scholarship that is enhanced further with the inclusion of a sixteen page Bibliography, a six page Filmography, a list of contributors along with their credentials, and a nine page Index. A unique and highly recommended contribution to academic library Cinematic Studies and Chinese Popular Culture reference collections and supplemental studies reading lists. . .- --Roy Lee, MBR Booklist ""Transnational Chinese Cinema touches the edge of previously unexplored grounds, providing new perspectives on the ways films can be read. By incorporating the sensibilities of scholars adept in film theory, embodiment studies, philosophy and cultural studies, the collection engages insightfully with Chinese cinema, charting the way we encounter transnational Chinese cinema and how we in turn interact with it."" --Roy Lee, Singapore Review of Books ""An impressive body of extraordinary scholarship that is enhanced further with the inclusion of a sixteen page Bibliography, a six page Filmography, a list of contributors along with their credentials, and a nine page Index. A unique and highly recommended contribution to academic library Cinematic Studies and Chinese Popular Culture reference collections and supplemental studies reading lists. . ."" --Roy Lee, MBR Booklist ""Transnational Chinese Cinema touches the edge of previously unexplored grounds, providing new perspectives on the ways films can be read. By incorporating the sensibilities of scholars adept in film theory, embodiment studies, philosophy and cultural studies, the collection engages insightfully with Chinese cinema, charting the way we encounter transnational Chinese cinema and how we in turn interact with it."" --Roy Lee, Singapore Review of Books ""An impressive body of extraordinary scholarship that is enhanced further with the inclusion of a sixteen page Bibliography, a six page Filmography, a list of contributors along with their credentials, and a nine page Index. A unique and highly recommended contribution to academic library Cinematic Studies and Chinese Popular Culture reference collections and supplemental studies reading lists. . ."" --Roy Lee, MBR Booklist

Transnational Chinese Cinema touches the edge of previously unexplored grounds, providing new perspectives on the ways films can be read. By incorporating the sensibilities of scholars adept in film theory, embodiment studies, philosophy and cultural studies, the collection engages insightfully with Chinese cinema, charting the way we encounter transnational Chinese cinema and how we in turn interact with it. --Roy Lee, Singapore Review of Books An impressive body of extraordinary scholarship that is enhanced further with the inclusion of a sixteen page Bibliography, a six page Filmography, a list of contributors along with their credentials, and a nine page Index. A unique and highly recommended contribution to academic library Cinematic Studies and Chinese Popular Culture reference collections and supplemental studies reading lists. . . --Roy Lee, MBR Booklist

Transnational Chinese Cinema touches the edge of previously unexplored grounds, providing new perspectives on the ways films can be read. By incorporating the sensibilities of scholars adept in film theory, embodiment studies, philosophy and cultural studies, the collection engages insightfully with Chinese cinema, charting the way we encounter transnational Chinese cinema and how we in turn interact with it. --Roy Lee, Singapore Review of Books

Author Information

Brian Bergen-Aurand is Assistant Professor of English at Nanyang Technological University, where he specializes in film, ethics, and embodiment. He is the author of the forthcoming book Blind Cinema. Mary Mazzilli is a Fellow specializing in Chinese cinema, urbanism, theater, and gender and women’s studies at Nanyang Technological University. She has published several comparative studies of Contemporary Chinese Theatre. Waisiam Hee is Assistant Professor of Chinese at Nanyang Technological University. He writes on Chinese culture and film and is completing a history of Sinophone Cinemas in Singapore and Malaya.

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