Sinophone Cinemas

Sinophone Cinemas considers a range of multilingual, multidialect and multi-accented cinemas produced in Chinese-language locations outside mainland China. Showcasing a variety of new and fascinating case studies from Britain, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore and Australia, and canvassing a range of formats including commercial co-productions, short films, documentaries and independent films, the book highlights the contemporary screen cultures of Chinese-language communities situated on the margins of China and Chineseness. It engages new sites of localisation, multilingualism, and difference that have emerged in Chinese film studies, ones that are not easily contained by the notion of diaspora. The chapters cover a number of historical periods, geographical locations, and critical and methodological perspectives, such as the political economy of Sinophone film production, distribution, consumption and regulation; cinematic practices of Chinese and non-Chinese language resistance, complicity and transformation; and Sinophone communities as sites of cultural production and visual economies.

Audrey Yue is Associate Professor in Screen and Cultural Studies at The University of Melbourne, Australia. She is co-author of Transnational Australian Cinema: Ethics in the Asian Diasporas (2013), co-editor of Queer Singapore: Illiberal Citizenship and Mediated Cultures (2012) and author of Ann Hui's Song of the Exile (2010).

Olivia Khoo is Senior Lecturer in Film and Television Studies at Monash University, Australia. She is the author of The Chinese Exotic: Modern Diasporic Femininity (2007), co-author of Transnational Australian Cinema: Ethics in the Asian Diasporas (2013), and co-editor (with Sean Metzger) of Futures of Chinese Cinema: Technologies and Temporalities in Chinese Screen Cultures (2009).