Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Figures vii
4. Acknowledgements ix
5. Notes on the Contributors x
6. Note on Romanisation xiii
7. 1 Introduction: Th e Fantastic as Sino-Enchantment in Contemporary Chinese Cinemas 1
8. PART I VISUALITY/VIRTUALITY
9. 2 Heroic Human Pixels: Mass Ornaments and Digital Multitudes in Zhang Yimou’s Spectacles 27
10. 3 The Spectacle of Co-Production in The Great Wall 49
11. 4 The Blockbuster Breakthrough: The Fantastic in Hero 71
12. PART II GENRES OF SINO-ENCHANTMENT
13. 5 The Restrained Fantastic in Hou Hsiao-hsien’s The Assassin 95
14. 6 An Auteurist Journey through the Fantastic Mode: A Case Study of Ho Meng-hua 112
15. 7 Tracing the Science Fiction Genre in Hong Kong Cinema 128
16. 8 Chick Flick Fantasy and Postfeminism in Chinese Cinema: 20 Once Again as a Transnational Remake 149
17. 9 The Sacred Spectacle: Subverting Scepticism in Tsui Hark’s Detective Dee Films 166
18. PART III ETHICS
19. 10 Almost Wild, But Not Quite: The Indexical and the Fantastic Animal Other in China-Co-Produced (Eco)Cinema 185
20. 11 Domesticity, Sentimentality and Otherness: The Boundary of the Human in Monster Hunt 203
21. 12 Transforming Tripitaka: Toward a (Buddhist) Planetary Ethics in Stephen Chow’s Adaptation of Journey to the West 222
22. Coda: Sino-Enchantment in a Time of Crisis 245
23. Selected Filmography 249
24. Bibliography 255
25. Index 277