Adapted for the Screen: The Cultural Politics of Modern Chinese Fiction and Film

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235 Index A Cheng, 36–37 Abbas,Ackbar, 99 adaptation: abstract, 8, 101; crossmedia , 1; fictional, 149, 171; intersecting, 7, 204n7; literary, 7, 9, 97, 172, 193, 204n3; narratological approach,103; nonnarrative, 193; self-adaptation, 1, 133, 147–148, 193; two-way, 150 American feminism, 5 Andrew, Dudley, 2, 11, 35, 103, 197n1 Ang, Ien, 81 angled shots, 85, 98, 138 antihero, 14, 164; hero/antihero dualism, 29 Antonioni, Michelangelo, 100–101, 115, 194 Aristotle, 16, 99, 101 Ashes ofTime, 99 AsTears Go By, 98 Auerbach, Erich, 39 Aumont, Jacques, 190 autobiographical, 149–153, 155, 178– 179; narrator, 129; novel, 9, 174, 180; standpoint, 105, 125; voice, 185 avant-gardes, 36 Babas del Diablo, Las, 100 Babenco, Hector, 100 Bail, Sabine, 66 Bakhtin, Mikhail, 2, 133, 143–144, 147, 211n5 Banquet,The (Ye yan), 198n3 bao, 18–20, 198n9; bao chou, 18; bao en, 18; reciprocation, 19–20; requital, 19 Baudelaire, Charles, 36 Bazin,André, 2, 5, 7, 207n7 Beijing Story, 64 Berry, Chris, 197n2, 200n3, 209n2, 212n7 Bhabha, Homi, 79, 203n7 bird’s-eye camera viewpoint, 129 Bloom, Michelle, 126 Blowup, 100 Bluestone, George, 2, 5, 7, 35, 47, 204n6 Boon Joon-ho, 195 Bordwell, David, 99, 149, 159, 161, 210n10 bourgeois: materialism, 8; morality, 4 Boys from Fengkuei,The (Feng gui lai de ren), 150, 162 Brokeback Mountain, 1, 13 236 Index Brown, Carolyn Thompson, 203n8 Brunette, Peter, 99–100, 204n4, 204n8, 205n11, 205n14 Buliesong (Bresson), 177 Buñuel, Luis, 194 Burdeau, 158, 162 Cahiers du cinema, 150 Cai Guorong, 15 Cai Mingliang (Tsai Ming-liang), 176 Can Xue, 36 Cape No. 7 (Hai jiao qi hao), 194 Casares,Adolfo Bioy, 100 Center Stage (Ruan ling yu), 64 centripetal family, 101, 116 Cha, Louis (JinYong), 99 chamber: ZhangYimou’s spatial and sexual metaphor, 35, 43–45, 48, 54–56, 58–59, 68 Chang Fans (Zhang mi), 61 Chao,Winston, 65 character psychology, 5, 61, 194 Charlie’s Angels, 12 Chen, Joan, 66 Chen Kaige, 1, 34, 37, 131, 198n3, 200n3 Chen Kunhou, 150 Chen Shijie, 179 Chen Shuibian, 211n4 Chen Wenqian, 181–182 ChenYingzhen, 150 Chen Zhaorong, 179–180 Chenghuang Temple, 160–161 cheongsams (qipao), 102, 114 Chiang Kai-shek (Jiang Zhongzheng), 135, 211n3 “China-as-One,” 62, 90 China, My Sorrow, 124 China’s journey to the West, 67 Chinese Botanist’s Daughters, The, 125 Chinese Cultural Revolution, 8, 37, 124–126, 130–131, 143–144, 148, 200n6, 205n16 “Chinese Educating the Family,” 63 Chinese essentialism, 78 Chinese Film and Television Bureau, 123, 132–133 “Chinese humor,” 126, 128 Chineseness, 7, 62, 80, 81, 84, 93, 97 Chow, Raymond, 199n12 Chow, Rey: Eileen Chang, 61, 63, 78, 82; “the people,” 210n12; Wong Kar-wai, 204n4; Zhang Yimou, 38, 41, 56, 60 199n1, 201n9, 201n13 Chow Tse-tsung, 67 Chun,Allen, 81 cinematic: novel, 151; fiction, 172, 194 cinematic language, 6–7, 38, 46, 132, 153. See also language of cinema “Class Teacher,” 130 close-ups, 9, 22, 41, 108, 186, 188, 210n8; Dai Sijie’s dramatic emphasis, 128, 134, 137, 139; Eileen Chang’s literary technique, 62–63, 70; theory of, 47, 190 Cohen, Keith, 2, 5, 35, 204n6 collectivism, 36, 166, 174 Confucian philosophy, 4 Confucianizing, 11, 12 Coral, 41, 43, 48–49, 56, 58–59, 200n7, 202nn20–21 Cortázar, Julio, 100–101 Crane Iron Series (He tie xi lie), 14, 198n7 Index 237 critical realism: in fiction, 131, 200n6; in film, 35, 60; techniques of, 5 “cultural China,” 80–81, 83 cultural hybridity, 6, 65, 84, 96, 152, 162 cultural politics, 3–4, 13, 65, 97, 175, 193, 199n1 Currie, Mark, 185 Dai Qing, 56, 200n9 Daoist: conviction, 22; tale, 32 Daughter of the Nile,The (Ni luo he de nüer), 150 Days of BeingWild,The, 101 de-China-fication, 9 deconstructive confessions, 9, 174, 176, 212n11 deep focus, 153 déjà disparu, 99 democraticity, 175 democratizing aesthetic, 151, 155, 162, 164–165, 186 depersonalization, 129, 153 Dianmao Film Production Company, 63 Dian ying li lun (Film theory), 177 Dian ying xin shang (Film appreciation), 177 Ding Ling, 35, 40, 61 discontinuity editing, 151, 153, 155, 157, 159, 173 Dissanayake,Wimal, 65, 203n7 Doane, Mary Ann, 47, 186, 190, 192, 201n14, 203n6 docudrama, 131 dramatic irony, 128 dramatic structure, 6 Drunkard,The, 102 dui dao, 102 Duke, Michael, 201n10, 202n20 Dumas,Alexandre, 123, 148 Duras, Marguerite, 100–101, 115 Dust in theWind, 151, 162 Eat Drink ManWoman, 13, 15 écriture feminine...