Chinese Film Festivals: Sites of Translation

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction....Pages 1-11
Front Matter....Pages 13-13
Shanghai and Hong Kong: A Tale of Two Festivals....Pages 15-33
“Mature at Birth”: The Beijing International Film Festival Between the National Film Industry and the Global Film Festival Circuit....Pages 35-55
Culture Translation Between “Local” and “International”: The Golden Harvest Award in Taiwan....Pages 57-78
Queer as Catachresis: The Beijing Queer Film Festival in Cultural Translation....Pages 79-100
The Beijing Independent Film Festival: Translating the Non-Profit Model into China....Pages 101-120
“China’s Sundance” and Corporate Culture: Creating Space for Young Talent at the Tudou Video Festival....Pages 121-140
What Can Small Festivals Do? Toward Film Festivals as Testimony to Expanded Civic Engagement in Post-Handover Hong Kong....Pages 141-167
The China Independent Film Festival and Chinese Independent Film Festivals: Self-Legitimization and Institutionalization....Pages 169-191
Sole Traders, Cultural Brokers, and Chinese-Language Film Festivals in the United Kingdom: The London Taiwan Cinefest and the Chinese Visual Festival....Pages 193-213
Front Matter....Pages 215-215
Yingying, Zhenzhen, and Fenfen? China at the Festivals....Pages 217-235
Programming China at the Hong Kong International Film Festival and the Shanghai International Film Festival....Pages 237-257
Clara Law’s Red Earth: The Hong Kong International Film Festival and the Cultural Politics of the Sponsored Short....Pages 259-277
Rural Films in an Urban Festival: Community Media and Cultural Translation at the Yunnan Multi Culture Visual Festival....Pages 279-299
Translating the Margins: New Asian Cinema, Independent Cinema, and Minor Transnationalism at the Hong Kong Asian Film Festival....Pages 301-320
Translating Chinese Film Festivals: Three Cases in New York....Pages 321-342
Back Matter....Pages 343-376