C Berry

Datos Biográficos

ID17333
NOMBREC Berry
NOMBRESC
APELLIDOBerry
FIRMABERRY C
AFILIACIONESKing's College London
ORCID0000-0002-5752-3107
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS71
TOTAL DE CITAS40
TOTAL COMO AUTOR71
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1971
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2025
ÍNDICE H4

  • Blue, as in ‘melancholy’

    Open AccessC BerryARTICLEJournal of Chinese Cinemas2025

    Chan Tze-woon’s Sinophone documentary Blue Island (2022) marks a break with the immediate post-2019 Hong Kong documentaries that rendered the on-the-spot experience of the protests. This essay argues that Chan’s film takes a reflective step back that enacts a melancholic engagement with Hong Kong’s complex postcolonial history in a performative manner that foregrounds the filmmaker’s intervention. It also argues that this specific melancholic per…

  • Pema Tseden (1969–2023)

    C BerryARTICLEFilm Quarterly2024

    By the time of his sudden and unexpected death in May 2023, the Tibetan filmmaker Pema Tseden had changed the face of cinema from China. He was not only China’s first ethnic Tibetan feature filmmaker, but also an internationally awarded and recognized auteur. Furthermore, his films corrected the existing cinematic imagery of Tibet by countering both Chinese and Hollywood exoticism with a cycle of realist films that articulate the view from within…

  • Chinese Film

    C BerryARTICLEThe China Journal2023

  • The Landscape of Historical Memory

    C BerryARTICLEInternational Journal of Taiwan…2022

    The Politics of Museums and Memorial Culture in Post-martial Law Taiwan is the first monograph in English to analyse the boom in Taiwan's museum culture following the development of multiparty democracy on the island.While there were around 40 museums in Taiwan in 1880, there were 450 by 2002 (pp.13-14).For his study Denton selects mostly national museums to explore how they shape public memory in Taiwan, making The Landscape of Historical Memory…

  • A Woman’s Korea

    C BerryARTICLEFilm Quarterly2021

    One film stayed with me long after the annual Far East Film Festival took place, online in summer 2020 rather than in its customary Udine location in spring: Vertigo. No, not the Hitchcock one. This Vertigo (Beotigo, Jeon Kye-soo, 2019) is a recent South Korean rom-com about a young woman office worker. It starts out as a very lame office-girl fantasy. (Yes, there will be plot spoilers.) Seo-young seems to have it all. She has escaped her abusive…

  • Introducing Taiwanese-Language Cinema in Europe

    C BerryARTICLEInternational Journal of Taiwan…2021

    How do you get people interested in something they know nothing about? Something old, forgotten—and in black and white with subtitles? ‘Taiwan’s Lost Commercial Cinema: Recovered and Restored’ is a project to screen old Taiwanese-language films ( taiyupian ), mostly from the 1960s, in Europe. It was a learning experience in working with Taiwanese culture in Europe. This report is my effort to reflect on that experience and I try to answer two que…

  • The New Americans? The Sino-African Relationship on Chinese and Ethiopian Screens

    Open AccessMichael W Thomas, C BerryARTICLEOpen Screens2021Referencias: 2

    China has forged substantial political and economic relations across Africa since the turn of the new millennium. This essay scrutinises the cultural representations of these relations from the perspectives of popular, locally produced cinemas in both the Chinese and Ethiopian contexts. We argue that cultural readings of the power relations between China and Africa help to nuance the often-over-simplified narratives that posit China as the new Am…

  • An alternative cinema of poverty

    C BerryARTICLEJournal of Chinese Cinemas2020

    The term taiyupian refers to over one thousand low-budget, Taiwanese-language films made between the mid-1950s and early 1970s. How should we understand this industry? It was neglected and forgotten for many years. By the time scholars became interested in the 1990s in revisiting taiyupian as part of the ‘sadness’ of the island’s martial law era, only 178 complete films survived. More recently, they have been revalorized and promoted as cult movi…

  • No Father-and-Son Reunion

    C BerryARTICLEFilm Quarterly2020

    Chinese films in “the Chinese century” are more expansively confident than ever. A new vogue for science fiction, a genre that has taken off in China alongside the country's stratospheric growth, suggests that China is ready to take up the baton of galactic discovery adventure. Chris Berry examines the father-son narratives in The Wandering Earth (Frant Gwo, 2019) and Nova (Cao Fei, 2019), two recent films that link Chinese patriarchy to the triu…

  • Getting Real

    Open AccessC BerryCHAPTERUrban Generation2020

  • Introduction to a special issue on Taiwanese-language films ( taiyupian )

    C Berry, Ming-Yeh T RawnsleyARTICLEJournal of Chinese Cinemas2020

    In this introduction, the guest editors discuss briefly the context of organising this special issue, the approach of each paper takes, and how they are collectively related to the existing literature of Taiwanese-language films (taiyupian). The guest editors also explain the screening tour of selected taiyupian in the United Kingdom (UK) and Europe between 2017 and 2019, which became possible because of support and cooperation of many institutio…

  • All at Sea? National History and Historiology in Soul’s Protest and Phantom,the Submarine

    C BerryCHAPTERNew Korean Cinema2019

  • Film and the Chinese Medical Humanities

    C Berry, Guo Liping et al.BOOKFilm and the Chinese Medical…2019

  • Experimental Beijing

    C BerryARTICLECanberra Anthropology2019

    Sasha Su-Ling Welland’s Experimental Beijing: Gender and Globalization in Chinese Contemporary Art is a feminist anthropological account grounded in participant observation of the Chinese contempor

  • The Sinophone Cinema of Hou Hsiao-hsien

    C BerryARTICLEInternational Journal of Taiwan…2018

  • Embodied Modernities

    C Berry, Louise Edwards et al.BOOKEmbodied Modernities2017

    From feminist philosophy to genetic science, scholarship in recent years has succeeded in challenging many entrenched assumptions about the material and biological status of human bodies. Likewise in the study of Chinese cultures, accelerating globalization and the resultant hybridity have called into question previous assumptions about the boundaries of Chinese national and ethnic identity. The problem of identifying a single or definitive refer…

  • Sino-Korean screen connections

    C BerryARTICLEJournal of Chinese Cinemas2016

    How can we pursue the original drive of work on transnational cinema to combat methodological and ideological nationalism, but without becoming complicit with globalization and its ideology? This essay proposes researching Sino-Korean screen connections. It opens up five directions, illustrating each with a particular example: (1) revealing the occluded, illustrated by the role of Korean filmmakers in the Shanghai cinema of the colonial era; (2) …

  • Pema Tseden and the Tibetan road movie

    C BerryARTICLEJournal of Chinese Cinemas2016Citada por: 6Referencias: 5

    This essay analyzes the films of Pema Tseden (པད་མ་ཚེ་བརྟན།), known in Mandarin as Wanma Caidan (万玛才旦), as road movies. The essay considers the use of the road movie genre as a response to the eclipse of the old ‘minority nationalities’ shaoshu minzu (少数民族) category of filmmaking in China, and the rise of the market economy under Chinese neoliberalism. Pema's films feature male protagonists on repeated journeys to and from certain points, or circ…

  • Images of urban China in Cao Fei's 'magical metropolises

    Open AccessC BerryARTICLEChina Information2015Citada por: 5Referencias: 18

    This article examines the moving image works of Chinese artist Cao Fei as a response to China's rapid urbanization and the transformation of its existing urban spaces which are no longer shaped by socialism but instead by what this article considers as China's engagement with neo-liberalism, including and facilitated by globalization. The urban sprawl of the Pearl River Delta inspired Rem Koolhaas's writings on the 'generic city', which he celebr…

  • Transnational Culture in East Asia and the Logic of Assemblage

    C BerryARTICLEAsian journal of social science2014Citada por: 1Referencias: 7

  • Approaches to Improving the Delivery of Social Services in Difficult Environments

    C Berry, Ali Forder et al.

    Institutional and Behavioral Economics

  • Cultural Studies and Cultural Industries in Northeast Asia

    C Berry, Nicola Liscutin et al.

    Highlights how regional popular cultures and creative industries have become globally powerful, analyzing gender and labor issues amid differing regulatory frameworks of cultural production and piracy in Asia.

  • Vulgar Beauty

    C Berry

  • Screening China’s Soft Power. Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia Series, no. 53

    C Berry, Luo Hui

  • Cinema, nation, and empire in Uzbekistan, 1919–1937

    C Berry

    Cinema, nation, and empire in Uzbekistan, 1919–1937." Early Popular Visual Culture, 18(3), pp. 323–324