Article: China on Screen.(Brief article)(Book review)

Article: China On Screen: Cinema and Nation
The China Journal;  July 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... Screen: Cinema and Nation, by Chris Berry and Mary Farquhar. New York: Columbia University ... social theory. From the first, Chris Berry has been a leader in this gestation ... his collaboration here with Mary Farquhar has produced an important and ...

Article: Theatricality and cultural critique in Chinese cinema.(Essay)
Asian Theatre Journal;  March 22, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... melodrama films of the 1930s and 1940s, continues to shape Chinese filmmaking generations later. According to Chris Berry and Mary Farquhar, all Chinese films may be divided into two broad categories: the operatic mode and the realist mode. Films ...

Article: Media received.
Afterimage;  May 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... University of California Press/310 pp./$24.95 (sb). China on Screen: Cinema and Nation, by Chris Berry and Mary Farquhar. Columbia University Press/336 pp./$24.50 (sb). The Cinema Dreams Its Rivals: Media Fantasy Films ...

Article: Chinese-Language Film: Historiography, Poetics, Politics
The China Journal;  January 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... A second important group of essays constructs or surveys genres: Zhen Zhang on early martial arts films, Mary Farquhar and Chris Berry on operatic films, Shuqin Cui on independent mainland films of the 1990s, David Desser on Hong Kong martial ...

Article: Sheldon H. Lu and Emille Yueh-yu Yeh, editors. Chinese-Language ...
China Review International;  September 22, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... the rubric "Historiography, Periodization, Trends." The first chapter, on shadow opera, coauthored by Mary Farquhar and Chris Berry, shows how deftly the Chinese adapted cinema to indigenous popular art forms that emphasize "performativitiy ...

Article: Chris Berry and Feii Lu, editors. Island on the ...
China Review International;  September 22, 2005 ;     700+ words ...Chris Berry and Feii Lu, editors. Island on the Edge: Taiwan Cinema and After ... purpose of the film. A veteran researcher on Chinese film studies, Chris Berry shows his insight in the very choice of the title of his contribution ...

Article: Panjea out to heal the world.(Entertainment)(Leader Chris ...
The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR);  May 12, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... Guard As a California white kid becoming a man in Africa, Chris Berry says he learned how to live without fear or judgment to create ... part of the human race. And I'm free." CONCERT PREVIEW Chris Berry and Panjea with Michael Kang What: Fusion of Zimbabwean indigenous ...