Speaking in Images: Interviews with Contemporary Chinese Filmmakers

Speaking in Images Interviews with Contemporary Chinese Filmmakers Michael Berry, (2005) New York: Columbia University Press, 568 pp., ISBN 0231133316 (pbk), $24.50, ISBN 0231133308 (hbk), $64.50 ANYONE WHO studies or wishes to study the cinemas of China, Taiwan and Hong Kong owes it to him/herself...

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Published in:Film international (Göteborg, Sweden) Sweden), 2006, Vol.4 (3), p.94
Main Author: de Seife, Ethan
Format: Review
Language:English
Subjects:
Chinese languages
Interviews
Lee, Ang (1954- )
Motion picture directors & producers
Tian Zhuangzhuang
Zhang Yimou
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Summary:Speaking in Images Interviews with Contemporary Chinese Filmmakers Michael Berry, (2005) New York: Columbia University Press, 568 pp., ISBN 0231133316 (pbk), $24.50, ISBN 0231133308 (hbk), $64.50 ANYONE WHO studies or wishes to study the cinemas of China, Taiwan and Hong Kong owes it to him/herself to read Michael Berry's fine collection of interviews, Speaking in Images: Interviews with Contemporary Chinese Filmmakers. Berry offers a series of intelligent, probing conversations with central figures in all three of these industries, and the reader comes away with a deeper, richer sense of the film-makers, their films, the industries in which they work and the national traditions which shape their art. Berry has chosen an interesting and representative group of film-makers (though, as he acknowledges regretfully in his introduction, female film-makers are under-represented), some of whom, like Zhang Yimou and Ang Lee, have become well known in the West; and some of whom, like Xie Jin and Tian Zhuangzhuang, are vitally important figures about whom there are relatively small bodies of English-language scholarship.
ISSN:1651-6826
2040-3801