Abstract
In the 1990s the restructuring of the film industry and the incremental opening of China’s film market to foreign imports and investments have transformed the landscape of Chinese cinema. Internationalization has been accelerated through overseas film festival competitions, global distribution networks, and transnational co-productions. 3 While the state-owned August First Film Studio is still churning out “mainstream melody” ( zhuxuanlü ) military films, the more market-oriented productions are the mainstay of both the domestic and overseas markets. They are therefore more reliable indicators of the changing style and content of Chinese war films as they negotiate between two institutional terrains: the specific social, economic, and political milieu of Chinese film production and the international film scene, where a different set of artistic, commercial, and ideological parameters applies.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | American and Chinese-Language Cinemas |
| Subtitle of host publication | Examining Cultural Flows |
| Editors | Lisa Funnell, Man-Fung Yip |
| Place of Publication | New York USA |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Chapter | 7 |
| Pages | 101-118 |
| Edition | 1st |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 978-1-315-84956-0 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-0-415-73182-9 |
| Publication status | Published - 10 Oct 2014 |