Cinema, Space, and Polylocality in a Globalizing China
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Cinema, Space, and Polylocality in a Globalizing China

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Introduction 
11
were 
based 
for 
time 
in 
Urumchi, 
where 
all 
the 
street 
signs 
are 
in 
Chinese 
and 
Arabic, 
then 
all 
the 
way 
down 
south 
to 
the 
Bamboo 
Forest 
in 
Anji 
and 
north 
to 
Cheng 
De, 
where 
the 
famous 
summer 
palace 
is. 
The 
studio 
work 
was 
done 
in 
Beijing; 
we 
recorded 
the 
music 
in 
Shanghai. 
The 
background 
vocals 
for 
the 
end 
credit 
song 
were 
recorded 
in 
Los 
Angeles 
and 
we 
did 
post-production 
looping 
in 
Hong 
Kong.
53
Apart 
from 
such 
polylocality 
on 
and 
off 
screen, 
many 
other 
aspects 
of 
the 
film 
also 
underscore 
translocality 
at 
work. 
The 
screenplay 
and 
subtitles, 
for 
instance, 
undertook 
several 
translocal—or 
trans-Pacific 
in 
this 
case—shuffles. 
As 
Schamus 
recalls, 
“I 
write 
in 
English, 
it’s 
rewritten 
into 
Mandarin, 
then 
have 
it 
translated 
back 
into 
English”; 
after 
adapting 
what 
he 
calls 
the 
“international 
subtitle” 
style 
for 
the 
screenplay, 
he 
compares 
his 
translocal, 
translingual 
experience 
to 
“going 
Figure 
1.1.
DVD 
cover 
of 
Crouching 
Tiger, 
Hidden 
Dragon
(1999): 
worldwide 
martial 
arts 
sensation

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. List of Illustrations
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. 1. Introduction: Cinema, Space, Polylocality
  5. 2. Space of Scholarship: Trans/National and Comparative Studies
  6. 3. Space of Production: Postsocialist Filmmaking
  7. 4. Space of Polylocality: Remapping the City
  8. 5. Space of Subjectivity: Independent Documentary
  9. 6. Space of Performance: Media and Mediation
  10. 7. Conclusion: Progress, Problems, Prospects
  11. Notes
  12. Filmography, Videography
  13. Bibliography
  14. Index