Foreword; Acknowledgements; Conventions and Abbreviations; Introduction; Part 1 Production; Chapter 1 The Business; Chapter 2 Players of the 1920s: Interconnecting, Mediating; Chapter 3 Players of the 1930s: Contestation? Collaboration?; Part 2 Product; Chapter 4 The Medium: Inside Glocal Mediascapes; Chapter 5 The Narrative (I): Melodrama as a Social Form; Chapter 6 The Narrative (II): Melodramas Fit for All; Chapter 7 The Meaning: Toward a Sentimental Education; Epilogue Toward a Glocal Viewing Public; Appendix 1 Filmography; Appendix 2 Mingxing Personnel; Bibliography; Index
Summary
In Shanghai Filmmaking, Huang Xuelei paints a multi-faceted picture of early Chinese film culture and examines a series of border-crossing practices across various ideological, geographical and medial divides
