Issue 12.2 of Journal of Chinese Cinemas is out!
We are glad to announce that the latest issue of Journal of Chinese Cinemas has just been published online. The print edition will follow shortly. Special thanks to Xinyu Dong and Jonathan Rosenbaum for editing this special issue, titled “Comedy Mutations”! This is also the first of a number of special issues in which the journal collaborates with non-China film scholars, in this case the eminent critic and cinephile Jonathan Rosenbaum.
Yomi Braester and Weihong Bao, editors-in-chief
Table of Contents:
Editorial – Xinyu Dong and Jonathan Rosenbaum
“Eulogistic Comedy as Domestic Soft Power: Biopolitical Self-Fashioning in It’s My Day Off (1959),” by Yingjin Zhang
“Two fools: Comedy as Dialectical Tension in Mid-Century Chinese Cinemas,” by Evelyn Shih
“A Chinese Ghost Story : A Hong Kong Comedy Film’s Cult Following in Mainland China,” by Hongjian Wang
“Black Comedy Films in Postsocialist China: Case study of Ning Hao’s Crazy Series,” by Hui Liu
“Taiwanese Comedies under the Shadow of the Chinese Market,” by James Udden
“Comedy mutations: a dialogue,” by Xinyu Dong and Jonathan Rosenbaum
Posted by: Yomi Braester <yomibr@gmail.com>