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Books by Gina Marchetti






Citing China(Illustrated)
Politics, Postmodernism, and World Cinema (Critical Interventions)
by Gina Marchetti, Sheldon H. Lu, Joseph H. Genz
Hardcover, 248 Pages, Published 2018 by University Of Hawaii Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8248-6657-0, ISBN: 0-8248-6657-6

"Citing China explores the role film plays in creating a common ground for the exchange of political and aesthetic ideas between China and the rest of the world. It does so by examining the depiction of China in contemporary film, looking at how global filmmakers “cite” China on screen. Author Gina Marchetti’s aim is not to point to how China continues to function as a metaphor or allusion that has little to do with the geopolitical actu ..."






From Tian'anmen to Times Square
Transnational China and the Chinese Diaspora on Global Screens, 1989-1997
by Gina Marchetti
Hardcover, 352 Pages, Published 2006 by Temple University Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-59213-277-5, ISBN: 1-59213-277-4

"Global perceptions of China have changed dramatically since the massive student protests that took place in Tian'anmen Square in April 1989. The media spotlight trained on Beijing, and the international uproar over the events of that spring still shape the world's perceptions of the People's Republic and the ways that Chinese people, within and beyond China, see and portray themselves. In From Tian'anmen to Times Square, leading film s ..."






The Palgrave Handbook of Asian Cinema(1st Edition)
by Gina Marchetti, See Kam Tan, Aaron Magnan-Park
Hardcover, 694 Pages, Published 2019 by Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN-13: 978-1-349-95821-4, ISBN: 1-349-95821-2

"THIS COLLECTION OFFERS NEW APPROACHES TO THEORIZING ASIAN FILM IN RELATION TO THE HISTORY, CULTURE, GEOPOLITICS AND ECONOMICS OF THE CONTINENT. BRINGING TOGETHER ORIGINAL ESSAYS WRITTEN BY ESTABLISHED AND EMERGING SCHOLARS, THIS ANTHOLOGY TRANSCENDS THE LIMITATIONS OF NATIONAL BORDERS TO DO JUSTICE TO THE DIVERSE WAYS IN WHICH THE CINEMA SHAPES ASIA GEOGRAPHICALLY AND IMAGINATIVELY IN THE WORLD TODAY. FROM THE REVIVAL OF THE SILK ROAD A ..."






Citing China
Politics, Postmodernism, and World Cinema (Critical Interventions)
by Gina Marchetti
Paperback, 248 Pages, Published 2020 by University Of Hawaii Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8248-8434-5, ISBN: 0-8248-8434-5

"Citing China explores the role film plays in creating a common ground for the exchange of political and aesthetic ideas between China and the rest of the world. It does so by examining the depiction of China in contemporary film, looking at how global filmmakers “cite” China on screen. Author Gina Marchetti’s aim is not to point to how China continues to function as a metaphor or allusion that has little to do with the geopolitical actu ..."






Chinese Connections
Critical Perspectives on Film, Identity, and Diaspora
by Gina Marchetti, See-Kam Tan, Peter X. Feng, Reviewer Gina Marchetti
Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2009 by Temple University Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-59213-268-3, ISBN: 1-59213-268-5

"Chinese Connections is a valuable new anthology that provides a prismatic look at the cross-fertilization between Chinese film and global popular culture. Leading film scholars consider the influence of world cinema on China-related and Chinese-related cinema over the last five decades. Highlighting the neglected connections between Chinese films and American and European cinema, the editors and contributors examine popular works such a ..."






Chinese Connections
Critical Perspectives on Film, Identity, and Diaspora
by See-Kam Tan, Gina Marchetti, Peter X. Feng, Reviewer Gina Marchetti
Hardcover, 320 Pages, Published 2009 by Temple University Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-59213-267-6, ISBN: 1-59213-267-7

"Chinese Connections is a valuable new anthology that provides a prismatic look at the cross-fertilization between Chinese film and global popular culture. Leading film scholars consider the influence of world cinema on China-related and Chinese-related cinema over the last five decades. Highlighting the neglected connections between Chinese films and American and European cinema, the editors and contributors examine popular works such a ..."






Hong Kong Film, Hollywood and New Global Cinema(1st Edition)
No Film is An Island (Routledge Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia)
by Gina Marchetti, Tan See Kam, Reviewer Gina Marchetti
Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 2007 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-0-415-54560-0, ISBN: 0-415-54560-9

"In recent years, with the establishment of the Hong Kong Film Archive and growing scholarly interest in the history of Hong Kong cinema, previously neglected historical documents and difficult-to-access films have offered new research materials. As Hong Kong film history comes into sharper focus, its inextricable links across the decades to Southeast Asia, Korea, Japan, the United States, and to the far reaches of the Chinese diaspora h ..."






Romance and the Yellow Peril
Race, Sex, and Discursive Strategies in Hollywood Fiction
by Gina Marchetti
Hardcover, 270 Pages, Published 1994 by Univ Of California Pr
ISBN-13: 978-0-520-07974-8, ISBN: 0-520-07974-4

"Focusing upon Hollywood's portrayal of Asian races, this study describes how social taboos concerning Orientals helped to perpetuate social and racial inequality in the USA. The author's discussion covers early silent films, later classics such as "Shanghai Express" and the recurring geisha movies."






The Palgrave Handbook of Asian Cinema(1st Edition)
by Gina Marchetti, See Kam Tan
Paperback, 743 Pages, Published 2019 by Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN-13: 978-1-349-95980-8, ISBN: 1-349-95980-4

"This collection offers new approaches to theorizing Asian film in relation to the history, culture, geopolitics and economics of the continent. Bringing together original essays written by established and emerging scholars, this anthology transcends the limitations of national borders to do justice to the diverse ways in which the cinema shapes Asia geographically and imaginatively in the world today. From the revival of the Silk Road a ..."






Wiley Blackwell Companions to National Cinemas
A Companion to Hong Kong Cinema
by Gina Marchetti
640 Pages, Published 2015 by John Wiley & Sons
ISBN-13: 978-1-118-88354-9, ISBN: 1-118-88354-3

"references to class difference, police graft, emigration of the well‐to‐do and the disturbances in China are structured within a self‐contained narrative of family bonding and romance, an idealized world that borders on the idyllic, by which I refer as much to the artistically touched‐up version of Wing Lee Street as to the desire of its creator for a “complete preservation” of childhood dream/memory. As a result, the film, as much ..."






Critical Interventions Ser.
Citing China : Politics, Postmodernism, and World Cinema
by Gina Marchetti
288 Pages, Published 2018 by University Of Hawaii Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8248-6660-0, ISBN: 0-8248-6660-6

"but the victim follows, shouting as Xiao Wu runs deep into the background of the shot. As in the cases of Michel ... Unlike Bresson's Pickpocket and Tam's After This Our Exile, Jia's Xiao Wu does not use any voice-overs. Rather, music, often in ..."






The Chinese Diaspora on American Screens
Race, Sex, and Cinema
by Gina Marchetti
Published 2012
ISBN-13: 978-1-59213-520-2, ISBN: 1-59213-520-X






Romance and the "Yellow Peril"
Race, Sex, and Discursive Strategies in Hollywood Fiction
by Gina Marchetti
272 Pages, Published 1994 by Univ Of California Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-520-91462-9, ISBN: 0-520-91462-7

"... Hollywood films, see Eugene Franklin Wong, On Visual Media Racism: Asians in the American Motion Picture (New York: Arno Press, 1978). 17. Sarah Kozloff, Invisible Storytellers: Voice-Over Narration in American Fiction Film (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1988): 80. ... For more on Fuller's oeuvre, see Nicholas Garnham, Samuel Fuller (London: British Film Institute, 1971)."






Documentary Across Platforms
Reverse Engineering Media, Place, and Politics
by Patricia R. Zimmermann, Gina Marchetti
Hardcover, 296 Pages, Published 2019 by Indiana Univ Pr
ISBN-13: 978-0-253-04346-7, ISBN: 0-253-04346-8

"In Documentary Across Platforms, noted scholar of film and experimental media Patricia R. Zimmermann offers a glimpse into the ever-evolving constellation of practices known as "documentary" and the way in which they investigate, engage with, and interrogate the world. Collected here for the first time are her celebrated essays and speculations about documentary, experimental, and new media published outside of traditional scholarly ven ..."






Documentary Across Platforms
Reverse Engineering Media, Place, and Politics
by Patricia R. Zimmermann, Gina Marchetti
Paperback, 268 Pages, Published 2019 by P648 - Manchester Univ Pr
ISBN-13: 978-0-253-04347-4, ISBN: 0-253-04347-6

"In Documentary Across Platforms, noted scholar of film and experimental media Patricia R. Zimmermann offers a glimpse into the continually evolving constellation of practices known as documentary and the way in which they investigate, engage with, and interrogate the world. Collected here for the first time are her celebrated essays and speculations about documentary, experimental, and new media published outside of traditional scholarl ..."






A Companion to Hong Kong Cinema(1st Edition)
(CNCZ - Wiley Blackwell Companions to National Cinemas)
by Gina Marchetti
Paperback, 640 Pages, Published 2017 by John Wiley & Sons
ISBN-13: 978-1-119-06603-3, ISBN: 1-119-06603-4

"A Companion to Hong Kong Cinema provides the first comprehensive scholarly exploration of this unique global cinema. By embracing the interdisciplinary approach of contemporary film and cultural studies, this collection navigates theoretical debates while charting a new course for future research in Hong Kong film. Examines Hong Kong cinema within an interdisciplinary context, drawing connections between media, gender, and Asian stu ..."






Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia Ser.
Hong Kong Film, Hollywood and New Global Cinema : No Film Is an Island
by Gina Marchetti, Tan See Kam
304 Pages, Published 2007 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-1-134-17916-9, ISBN: 1-134-17916-2

"These productions typically featurean interracial romancebetweena white American man and a native girl, set in the postwar era, in exotic faraway locations , or, as in the case of thetwo exampleshere, Japan and HongKong,respectively. 36 J. A. Michener, Tales of the South Pacific. NewYork, The CurtisPublishing Co., 1946, repr. Sydney: Dymock's BookArcade, 1951. In the1950,the booksawits twelfthreprint,thusattesting toitsbest selling ..."






Where the Boys Are(1st Edition)
Cinemas of Masculinity and Youth (Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series)
by Murray Pomerance, Frances K. Gateward, Professor Frances Gateward, Dianne Brooks, Christopher Ames, Matthew Tinkcom, Timothy Shary, Jerry Mosher, John Troyer, Sudhir Mahadevan, Charlene Regester, Peter Clandfield, Cordula Quint, Patrick E. White, Christian Lloyd, Chani Marchiselli, Professor Steven Alan Carr, Reviewer Gina Marchetti, Mary B. O'shea, Nicole Marie Keating, Steven J. Schneider, Tarshia L. Stanley, Reviewer Corey Creekmur, Corey Creekmur, Gina Marchetti
Paperback, 440 Pages, Published 2005 by Wayne State University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8143-3115-6, ISBN: 0-8143-3115-7

"The development of young masculine sexuality is still a cultural taboo of sorts, and until now there has been little scholarship available that discusses aspects of boyhood and its relation to cinema-in particular, the process whereby masculinities are socially, historically, economically, aesthetically, and psychologically created in male coming-of-age as depicted onscreen. Where the Boys Are: Cinemas of Masculinity and Youth scrutiniz ..."






The Palgrave Handbook of Asian Cinema
by Gina Marchetti, See Kam Tan
743 Pages, Published 2018 by Springer
ISBN-13: 978-1-349-95822-1, ISBN: 1-349-95822-0

"It takes place in a parking lot of Narita airport where Ryu picks up Toji ( Kashiwaya Michisuke), his younger brother whose study in the USA Ryu's criminal activities has paid for. When Toji's skateboard stops at the car in which Ryu is waiting, ..."






Wiley Blackwell Companions to National Cinemas
A Companion to Hong Kong Cinema
by Gina Marchetti
640 Pages, Published 2015 by John Wiley & Sons
ISBN-13: 978-1-118-88351-8, ISBN: 1-118-88351-9

"(Wai. Kafai,. 2005). As a New Year comedy, Himalaya Singh targets a very different audience to the two dramatic films just discussed. Adding an exotic Indian setting to the New Year film, the body is again foregrounded in this “mo lei tau” (nonsense) film. The film's key representation is one of malleable bodies that are able to be transformed (both through performance and through visual special effects), but only in the fantasy of ..."



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