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In Search of the “Air” of Chinese Cinema In Search of the “Air” of Chinese Cinema
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Eternal Regret Eternal Regret
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Spring in a Small Town Spring in a Small Town
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A Poetics of Screening China: The “Air” Versus the “Wall” A Poetics of Screening China: The “Air” Versus the “Wall”
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Seven A Spring That Brought Eternal Regret: Fei Mu, Mei Lanfang, and the Poetics of Screening China
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Published:January 2015
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Abstract
This chapter looks at the mutual illumination between Chinese opera and cinema on the eve of the Chinese Communist Revolution by focusing on two films made by the “poet-director” Fei Mu in 1948, Shengsihen (Eternal Regret) and Xiaocheng zhichun (Spring in a Small Town). Eternal Regret is an adaptation of the Peking opera of the same title, starring Mei Lanfang, the most popular female impersonator of traditional theater. Spring in a Small Town is a contemporary melodrama allegedly inspired by the song lyrics of Su Shi. This chapter examines how Fei, with the inspiration of Mei, negotiated a new way of screening China and offered a radical manifestation of cinematic “Chineseness” where it was least expected. By bringing traditional Chinese poetry to bear on his cinematic vision, Fei calls forth the “cinematic” potential of Chinese poetic imagination.
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