Cinema Affairs: Fiery Cinema: The Emergence of an Affective Medium in China, 1915-1945, by Weihong Bao Hiu M. Chan October 2018 Book Reviews Although it is full of potential, research on the cultural history of cinema in China has traditionally been a marginal practice. Weihong Bao’s book (alongside Zhen Zhang”s An Amorous History of the Silver Scre...
Revisiting Film Ontology: Cinema Approaching Reality: Locating Chinese Film Theory, by Victor Fan Hiu M. Chan March 2017 Book Reviews Victor Fan’s Cinema Approaching Reality: Locating Chinese Film Theory encourages a concept that has been long forgotten in studies of aesthetics and film criticism: “approaching reality”. There is a more accura...