December In 2011

  According to Chinese movie, Taiwan is always an inseparable part of Chinese movie. In the 1980 s, the rise in Taiwan "new movie" movement on the development of modern movie interrelations has a far-reaching influence.

Although Tai Wan movie develop independent  in a different political environment, Taiwan is still own an important force in the field of China's national cinema movie, both Taiwan and mainland movie contain Chinese tranditional elements. 

  Taiwan's new movie and Hong Kong New Wave are quite different in the shooting technique, Taiwan's new movie is opposed to Hollywood, promote the localization, instead of Taiwan, Hong Kong New Wave is praise highly to Hollywood movies. According to  theme and content, Taiwan's new movie presents the development of  Taiwan over the years of vicissitudes. But the Hong Kong new wave lack of history, and history are loading the vicissitudes of life. In addition, the Hong Kong new wave film and failed to build a new model of the traditional thought self-sufficient. And Taiwan's new film directors own a kind of unity and cooperation of the collective consciousness.

  In Taiwan's movie, " history is not narrated but evoked, it emerges not a logical, univocal sequence of events but as a complex Benjaminian " constellation" that brings together fragments of individual life stories into  a monad that remains open, ambiguous, and " pregnant with with tensions". 

 

 

  In my project, I will show some of the new movie in Taiwan history, there is a favourite one named " GoodBye May", it will be my represent sample in Taiwan movie field.

Bibliography:

  1. June Yip (1997), Transnational Chinese Cinema: Consturcting a Nation: Taiwanese History and the Film of Hou Hsiao-hsien Page 144. University of Hawai'i Press.

 

December In 2011

  In my tutorial, my supervisor Ivan gave me a lot of related books and it helped me a lot during the whole process. I found a book related to films essay-" Film as philosophy-Essays on Cinema After Wittgenstein and Cavell," it offered amounts of successful and excellent essay samples to me. I found write a good quality essay should follow these steps: firstly, gather your thought, for example record in blog is really a good way to reach this point; secondly, form a solid thesis statement, at the first moment I have confirmed my essay scope, it should be related to films, take my advantage into consideration, Chinese movie should be more easier to me; the next should be support your topic thoroughly, no matter what topic the eassy is, we always need find plenty of envidence to support our opinion; Thirdly, reiterate your point with a conclusion, it is quite important to statement my own opinion as a conclusion, whatever I did for the whole essay is related to the result; fianlly combined with my actual situation, I though the photos and videos must attend in my essay.

Bibliography:

  1. Rupert Read & Jerry Goodenough ( 2005), FILM AS PHILOSOPHY: Essays on Cinema After Wittgenstein and Cavell. PALGRAVE MACMILLAN press.

December In 2011

  After collect all of those basic material and theory frame, I start to take my work into consideration. Combine with the tutorial and advises from Alan and Ivan, video should be the best choice to me , it is directly to show my subjective opinion and the envidence can be more impressed and powerful. It is called a " video essay" contains video, picture, text and audio. I did a similarity work in my degree final project, and it lasted around 30 minutes, however my supervisor suggeted me to do a video around 10 minutes, though the time is more shorter, it means I need select more seriously and accurately. I search a lot of videos in youtube, finally I found a target to be my sample, it is about the inception of movie editing, though it is a quite different topic from mine, it give a lot of inspiration in my work and editing , absolutly for the profession skill of editing.

November In 2011

 Chinese mainland movie is always famous for costumes and the classic flavour. “ Farewell My Concubine" is a typical and quite successful movie in Chinese film history. " Farewell's twists and turns defy summary, but one character stands at the corn of the film, a complex character divided twice-over into two parts: the little boy Douzi, given up by his prostitute mother to a training school for young actors, and the man he grows up to be, the famed female impersonator, Cheng Diyi- boy and man, male and " female"," It is the story summary, the whole movie created under the background of Chinese tranditional opera, no matter from the character modelling, make-up to the costumes, it is filled with Chinese classic flavour, and moreover feudal  tranditional and class concept was fully manifested in the whole movie, in my opinion, this movie is quite successful to show Chinese tranditional culture and concept, it will be one of my selected video clip in my project.

Bibliography:

  1. Jerome Silbergeld ( 1999), China Into Film: Frame of Reference in Contemporary Chinese Cinema. Reaktion books Ltd.

November In 2011

 " In Chinese, shadowplay ( ying xi) is a word group consisting of modifier and the word it modifies. Its key word is play, which means a drama; shadow, which means the image on the screen, is only the modifier of play. The basic understanding of the relationship of shadowplay to film is that play is the origin of film, but shadow is its means presentation."

  Shadowpaly is the core concept of Chinese movie aesthetics, it is hard to explain or understand just from the words itself, it is a traditional culture and treasure in Chinese history, I just select a video from Youtube to show about it. What is a shadowplay. Actually it is the earlist play in history, it is not played by actual person, it is just controlled by people, and dubbed by people. " Shadowplay aesthetics, as an ideology, is an expression of the Chinese culture-spirit. For a long time, it led the concept of film and filmmaking of China. It took shadowplay as its key concept, and developed a set of theoretical ideas about filmmaking, criticism, and appreciation, which influenced most artists, critics, and audiences, and became a powerful system and network covering all aspects of film theory and aesthetics in China." Based on the theory, I will start my project with shadowplay and represented for Chinese mainland movie.

Bibliography:

  1. Chen Xihe (1990), Chinese Film Theory: Chinese Film Aesthetics and Their Philosophical and Cultural Fundamentals. Praeger Publishers, A division of Greenwood Press.

Novermber In 2011

  In the early 1980s, some young directors and screenwriters who came to film through televison began to address the city's tensions in several Hong Kong films that conveyed a strong sense of the city's contemporary rthythms. Beginning in 1979, the impact of these young people on Hongkong's Cantonese cinema was powerful. Young critics used a  borrowed label and began debating the existence of a New Wave cinema in Hong Kong. Even though this new cinema has changed its contours, the directors associated with it, such as Tsui Hark and Ann Hui, have continued to play a significant role in it s subsequent development. To the extent that the New Wave filmmakers helped turn Cantonese cinema into a modern cultural entity with a comopolitan outlook, their contribution bears further discussion and analysis.

  Chinese movie is divided into three part: Mainland Hong Kong and Taiwan, Hong Kong is the earliset origin one and the first one to be well known by all of the world, it is a remarkable "milestone" in Chinese movie history. In my project, I will  select the early films of Hong Kong's, especially three filmmakers who modernized Cantonese Films. In the mid-1960s, Hong Kong cinema was dominated by studio productions and two major film genres: the Cantonese " youth" films and the Mandarin Wuxia pian ( swordplay movies). 

  " Youth film" director: Chan Wun & Wong Yiu 

   ( On the fashionable trends inspired by American popular culture, particularly the Beach Boys.)

                                   Chor Yuen

   ( The film shot in color for wide screen, responded to increasing youthful restlessness in Hong Kong by playing on young people's feeling of repression and their hatred of the bourgeoisie.)

                                   Lung Kong

   ( A talented diretor who sometimes acted in his own films, responded to film theory and practice in a more systematic way.)

   Between 1967 and 1971, these three directors and their remarkable efforts lit a beacon for a modern cinema to come, even though they could not stem the immediate decline of Cantonese cinema at the time.

Bibliography:

1. Law Kar (2001) , At Full Speed : Hong Kong Cinema in a Borderless World , Unversity of Minnesota Press.

November In 2011

                                                                       Hong Kong Film:

  During my research, I found a special case in Chinese movie, it should be Hong Kong Film. It showed a complicated phenomenon in Chinese film developing road. " While the New Hollywood directors were revamping American films, a young generation of directors in Hong Kong found footing in their industry and recast its traditonal genres and creative methods. The result was not exactly a unified film movement, but a local cinema with a robust identity. Hong Kong's innovations in cinematic style and stroytelling vigorously influenced world filmmaking well into the twenty-first century." ( David Bordwell, Film Art).

  Because of the historical reason, Hong Kong was under British rule for one hundred years, not matter from politic, economy, culture or education, it is quite different from that in mainland of China. Especailly for people's mind and creative, it is obviously shown in Hong Kong movies. It is a combination of Chinese and British culture. 

  Masterpiece:

  

  YES MADAM (1985)

  Easter Condors ( 1987)

  Drunken Master (1978)

  The Killer (1989)

  The Longest Nite (1998)

  A Better Tomorrow(1986)

  A Chinese Ghost Story ( 1987) 

  Above from the film list, as a conclusion Hong Kong film industry is famous for three typical films: Action films,  copsandrobbers film and Fantasy film.