Christopher Rea
Index to Film Scenes
Browse scenes in this subject index to classic Chinese films, follow your interests, and make new discoveries.
Chinese Film (2023), by Jason McGrath
Chinese Cinema: Realism and Convention from the Silent Era to the Digital Age by Jason McGrath University of Minnesota Press 424 pages, 67 illustrations ISBN: 9781517914035 Publisher website: https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517914035/chinese-film/ Publisher’s description: A tour de force chronicling the development of realism in Chinese cinema The history of Chinese cinema is as long and complicated as the […]
Cinematic Guerrillas (2023), by Jie Li
Cinematic Guerrillas is a media history of Chinese film exhibition and reception that offers fresh insights into the powers and limits of propaganda.
2023/04/23: Spider Women and Light Sabers @ SOAS
Light Sabers, Spider Women and Other Discoveries in the Digital Archives of Early Chinese Cinema April 23, 2023, 5pm Room RB01, Russell Square: College Buildings, SOAS, University of London https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/light-sabers-spider-women-and-other-discoveries-digital-archives-early-chinese-cinema Abstract: What can we learn about early Chinese film history from the expanding digital archive? Which stories, images, linguistic patterns, filmmaking techniques, and industry behaviors […]
Teaching Resources for Early Chinese Cinema
The Chinese Film Classics Project is a research, teaching, and translation initiative aimed at making early Chinese cinema more accessible to the general public
2021/07/14: Seeing China Through Film – The Early Years
A conversation about “Laborer’s Love” (1922) and “The Great Road” (1934) with Weihong Bao, Richard Pena, and Christopher Rea
Events
Public events about Chinese cinema history
2021/05/20: Chinese Film Classics and Hollywood Resonances
How did Hollywood cinema influence Chinese films, circa 1920s-1940s? This talk traces influence at the level of text, identifying shared motifs and scenarios.
Zhou Xuan 周璇
Zhou Xuan 周璇 was famed as a “golden voice” of the Chinese cinema and phonograph industries before her premature death
Special Effects
Special effects were common in early Chinese cinema, especially in comedies and martial arts (wuxia) films of the 1920s
