Suzhou River and 'Sixth-Generation' Chinese Filmmaking

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