Issue 5 Editorial
There is no central theme to this issue - but it does take up several themes that have appeared in earlier issues. One of the original purposes of this journal…
A Spring River Flows East:”Progressive” ideology and gender representation
Uploaded 18 December 1998 The left-wing films of the period after World War 2 in China are collectively referred to as "progressive" (jinbu)in People's Republic of China (PRC) film discourse.…
Composing the past: music and the sense of history in Hollywood spectacles of the 1950s and early 1960s.
Uploaded 18 December 1998 During recent years, historical film has been of great interest to both historians and film scholars. There are many excellent studies that analyze historical film at…
Film history and film preservation: Reconstructing the text of The Joyless Street (1925)
[1] Uploaded 16 November 1998 I. Introduction Film history is like a massive graveyard in which lost films are buried, never again to be recovered or seen. As in life,…
Woman as spectacle in Zhang Yimou’s “Theatre of Punishments”
Uploaded 18 December 1998 Various writers on Fifth Generation filmmaking have noted a characteristic ambiguity which refuses to prescribe a single set subject position for audiences. [1] Rey Chow, for…