Film Studies For Free's author has been busy writing, for her day job, about 婁燁/ Lou Ye's Chinese/German coproduction 苏州河 /Suzhou he/Suzhou River (2000), a striking film which plays much more cleverly than most movies with the idea of implied authorship.
Below are some links to the freely-accessible, online resources of note pertaining to that film, as well as to 'Sixth-Generation' Chinese filmmaking more generally, which were gleaned as part of the research process:
- Cody Beckman, 'Suzhou River', Transnational Chinese Cinemas, December 8, 2008
- Robert Chi, 'Review of Hitchcock with a Chinese Face: Cinematic Doubles, Oedipal Triangles, and China's Moral Voice, by Jerome Silbergeld', MCLC Resource Center Publication, September 2006
- Jerry Clode, 'Suzhou River', Intersections: Gender, History and Culture in the Asian Context Issue 7, March 2002
- Gavin Collinson, 'Suzhou River', BBC4 website, April 24, 2004
- Richard Corliss, 'Bright Lights,'Time Asia 157, 12 (March 26, 2001)
- Kirk A. Denton, Bibliography of Chinese Film, Chinese Media & Print Culture resources MCLC
- Lizzie Francke, 'Review of Suzhou RIver' , Sight & Sound, Dec. 2000
- Stephanie Hemelryk Donald and John G. Gammack, 'Shanghai: World City?', Tourism and the Branded City (Ashgate, 2007)
- J. Hoberman, 'Eternal Return', Village Voice, November 7th 2000
- Brian Hu, 'Above Ground and Over His Head', Asia Pacific Arts, February 3, 2005
- Julia Kny, 'A Chinese Vertigo? Tracing Suzhou River's Musical Independence and Innovation', Jörg Lemberg's website, 2006
- Shelly Kraicer, 'Suzhou River', chinesecinemas.org, April 2000
- Jenny Kwok Wah Lau, 'Introduction' and 'Globalization and Yoythful Subculture: The Chinese Sixth-Generation Films at the Dawn of the New Century', Multiple modernities: cinemas and popular media in transcultural East Asia (Temple University Press, 2003)
- Yung Adam Lam, Identity, tradition and globalism in post-Cultural Revolution Chinese feature films, PhD e-thesis, The University of Auckland, 2000
- Charles Leary, 'Performing the Documentary, or Making it to te Other Bank', Senses of Cinema, July 2003
- Shannon May, Film for the New Long March: The Search for National Identity in Chinese Cinema, 1984-2000. Magna Cum Laude Thesis. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University, 2000
- Shannon May, 'Power and Trauma in Chinese Film: Experiences of Zhang Yuan and the Sixth Generation” Journal for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society 8:1 (Spring 2003), 156-160
- Peter Nellhaus, 'Two by Lou Ye', Coffee, Coffee, and More Coffee, September 24, 2006
- Jenni Peisa, The Unable Individual: The Actantial Analyses of Three Chinese Films and Discussion on Their Representations of the Individual’s Position in Contemporary Chinese Society, Masters e-Thesis, University of Helsinki, April 2008
- Polar Bear, 'Suzhou River (Ye Lou, 2000)', Polar Bear's Film Journal, August 4, 2008
- Peter C. Pugsley, 'Review of The Urban Generation: Chinese Cinema and Society at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century by Zhang Zhen (ed.), Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2007, Scope, Issue 12, 2008
- Ma Ran, 'The Sixth-Generation Cinema: To Continue the Dialogue with the West', Cina Oggi, September 17, 2007
- Bérénice Reynaud, 'Dancing with Myself, Drifting with My Camera: The Emotional Vagabonds of China's New Documentary,' Senses of Cinema, No 28, 2003
- Jonathan Rosenbaum, 'The World is Watching: Suzhou River', Chicago Reader - On Film, 2001
- Damion Searls, 'Suzhou River', Film Quarterly, Vol. 55, No. 2, 2001
- Donato Totaro, 'FCMM: Into the 21st Century', Offscreen Journal, November 28, 2000
- Lara Vanderstaay, 'A case study of the influence of directorial gender on the representation of female sexuality in four contemporary Chinese films [Red Sorghum, Soul of A Painter, Blush and Suzhou River]', Proceedings of the 15th Biennial Conference of the Asian Studies Association of Australia in Canberra 29 June - 2 July 2004
- Mike Walsh, 'Review of Zhang Zhen (ed.), The Urban Generation: Chinese Cinema and Society at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century.Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2007', Screening the Past, September 20, 2008
- Gary G. Xu, 'Introduction: China's (Cinematic) Century', Sinascape: Contemporary Chinese Cinema (Rowman & Littlefield, 2007)
- Neil Young, 'Suzhou River', Jigsaw Lounge, February 28, 2001
3 comments:
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I enjoyed the film "Beijing Bicycle" and "Still Life", I am very interested in sixth generation Chinese films. On my list are "24 City" "Platform" and "Summer Palace". Sixth generation is much grittier than 5th generation, and less traditional, making the films a treat to watch.
Ooh, I love Suzhou River. Not sure when I'm going to have time to read through all these links but I'll get through as many as I can...
I saw Summer Palace at the Edinburgh film festival in 2006. Lou Ye was interviewed afterwards - he wasn't defiant at all, and even said he was prepared to cut out anything the authorities wanted him to remove (unless the translator was slipping up on that point). They didn't even give him the chance, though. They just banned the film outright.
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