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Xiqu 2.0: Expanded Chinese Opera in Digital Times
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Prism (2023) 20 (2): 265–296.
Published: 01 September 2023
...Rossella Ferrari Abstract Xiqu 2.0 designates an experimental approach to adapting and updating the classical theaters of the Sinophone region ( xiqu ) and a form of expanded Chinese opera in digital times. It highlights strategies of versioning and serialization of classical texts and tropes...
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Surface Classicism: Aesthetics, Poetics, and Remediation in Digitally Enhanced Chinese Performance
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Prism (2023) 20 (2): 462–486.
Published: 01 September 2023
... 2023 surface classicism theater performance technology media Midway through the 2022 CCTV Spring Festival Gala (Zhongyang guangbo dianshi zong tai Chunjie lianhuan wanhui 中央廣播電視總台春節聯歡晚會), the annual extravaganza's dazzling special effects and glittering costumes gave way...
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The Spatiality of Emotion in Early Modern China: From Dreamscapes to Theatricality
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 304–309.
Published: 01 March 2021
... on emotion ( qing ) in the context of the historical development of the theater is pathbreaking. The work of more than a decade, it combines wide-ranging readings of vernacular plays and novels, canonical texts and their commentaries, classical tales, letters, notebook jottings, poetry, and classical prose...
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The Digital Classicism of the Cantonese Opera Film White Snake
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Prism (2023) 20 (2): 442–461.
Published: 01 September 2023
... widely regarded as a Cantonese opera film tailored for the young. The film indeed won a major following among young fans in Chinese movie theaters in May 2021. 3 Owing to popular demand, it began streaming for a fee on one of the leading Chinese streaming sites, B zhan B站 (Bilibili), in October 2021...
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Urban Life in Two 1920s Sino-Malay Poems
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 454–473.
Published: 01 September 2022
....” References Cohen, Matthew Isaac . The Komedie Stamboel: Popular Theater in Colonial Indonesia, 1891–1903 . Athens : Ohio University Press , 2006 . DeBernardi, Jean . Rites of Belonging: Memory, Modernity, and Identity in a Malaysian Chinese Community . Palo Alto, CA : Stanford University...
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The Male Dan at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century: Wu Jiwen's Fin-de-siècle Boylove Reader
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 70–88.
Published: 01 March 2021
... and 1990s Chinese-speaking world: the reappearance of the male dan ( qiandan 乾旦, the professional female impersonator in traditional Chinese theater, which in the late imperial period was sometimes intimately associated with prostitution) as one of the most conspicuous figures of male love, after decades...
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Between the World Ship and the Spaceship: Planetarianism, Hollywood, Nationalism, and the Iceberg-Shaped Story of The Wandering Earth (2019)
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 210–234.
Published: 01 March 2021
... (PRC), delineating the specific obstacles that significantly increased complexities and subtleties in the meaning of the film. The Wandering Earth was officially released in Chinese theaters on February 5, 2019, the Lunar New Year's Day. Before the release, the film had attracted much...
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Introduction
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 1–8.
Published: 01 March 2021
..., rather than as a voluntarily chosen form of diversion, the pervasive rhetoric of free love notwithstanding. Traditional musical theater ( xiqu 戲曲), with its long tradition of nongender straight acting by women and men alike, has served as a site for the imagining and mediation of same-sex relations...
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Classicism in Digital Times: Cultural Remembrance as Reimagination in the Sinophone Cyberspace
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Prism (2023) 20 (2): 249–264.
Published: 01 September 2023
... is not alone: in recent years, pop music, fashion, dance theater, films, period dramas, video games, and fantasies based on or inspired by Chinese elite traditions are among the most lavishly produced and avidly consumed cultural products worldwide. This multifaceted phenomenon, which we call “Sinophone...
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Spectacles of the Sinograph in Chinese Literary and Art Productions
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 102–124.
Published: 01 March 2022
... a certain rhetorical artfulness to their phonetic fusion of English into Chinese, which generates ludic slippages reminiscent of word play in comic theater. Many of these expressions are colloquial, with some bordering on vulgarity. Cartoonish illustrations are an integral part of such communications ( fig...
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The Life of Urban(e) Waters: Kyoto, circa 1830
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Prism (2024) 21 (1): 29–49.
Published: 01 March 2024
... ) and disembodied Truth can be traced to the physical context of its birth in the Greek city-state: “La vérité est structurée conjointement par l’‘agon’ et l’‘agora,’” with “agon” including both physical and performative dimensions of the theater, and “agora” more broadly the polity's engagement in civic life. 11...
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Beyond Imperial Aesthetics: Theories of Art and Politics in East Asia
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 244–247.
Published: 01 March 2022
... perceptive readings of artworks ranging from painting to photography and theater against the backdrop of early 1950s US-led expropriation of land in Okinawa and the onset of the Vietnam War (Inoue), violent processes of modernization in South Korea (Youngjune Lee), and the yearning for a new kind...
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Introduction: Ground and Background
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 157–166.
Published: 01 March 2022
... of the United States, focusing on a dialectics of representation and perception. First Joubin, who is a professor of English and Theater Studies at George Washington University, examines how cinematic representations help reinforce racist attitudes, focusing specifically on how many of these representations...
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Unfinished Revolutions: Wei Beihua, Chairil Anwar, and the Limits of Realism of Postwar Mahua Literature
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 479–500.
Published: 01 October 2021
... create artworks that require heavy manual labor such as sculptures. Old Gao 老高 is a hardworking fishmonger who has fought the war in China. He is interested in theater as a social movement and is able to write scripts, act, and direct plays. Little Liu 小劉 is a fatalist who is yearning for love...
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“And This Is What He Did”
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 215–223.
Published: 01 March 2022
... during and after the Second World War married girls of various Asian ancestry.” 19 At the same time, US soldiers' experiences with “R & R” in Asia-Pacific theaters of war, along with the growth of sex work surrounding US military bases in the region, perpetuated the hypersexualization of Asian...
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Ways of Seeing China through Isaac Julien's Ten Thousand Waves : Evocative Translocality, Fantastic Orientalism, Nameless Labor
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Prism (2019) 16 (1): 174–196.
Published: 01 March 2019
... movie theater to multiple midsize screens in an interactive art gallery or museum setting. Julien conceives of Ten Thousand Waves not merely as “a film about China” but also as “a film that starts with a transcultural incident and grows to encompass certain aspects of China.” 8 He dates...
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Hoax as Method
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Prism (2019) 16 (2): 236–259.
Published: 01 October 2019
... a decapitated head in lurid color, as it turns to regard the audience, breaking the fourth wall. The abrupt change reveals the creator's attitude vis-à-vis the audience, namely that their expectations can be anticipated and foiled. The hoax is a form of moral theater involving two integral structural...
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Acoustically Embodied: Film Adaptations of Radio Storytelling in 1950s Hong Kong
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 114–137.
Published: 01 March 2021
... Cantonese film to premiere at the Roxy and the Broadway, both first-tier theaters that had been dedicated exclusively to screening Hollywood films. It was praised for its artistic achievements and creative use of montage by the important Shanghai-trained director Zhu Shilin 朱石麟 (1899–1967). Also screened...
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Postornamentality: Ajumma Fabulosity and the Art of Wearing a Visor with Ferocity
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 203–214.
Published: 01 March 2022
... in Gendron, Inker, and Welleford, “Theory of Relational Ageism,” 242 . 14 Palmore, “Ageism Comes of Age,” 874 . 15 Gendron, Inker, and Welleford, “Theory of Relational Ageism,” 243 . 16 I thank Qianxiong Yang, a doctoral student in UCLA's Theater and Performance Studies Program...
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Screening Anti-Asian Racism: Gendered and Racialized Discourses in Film and Television
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 167–180.
Published: 01 March 2022
... in the Netflix series Altered Carbon (2018–20). In San Fransokyo, the fictional city and backdrop of Big Hero 6 (2014), the Kabuki-za, the principal theater in Tokyo for the classical form of dance-drama, sits comfortably among American high-rises, merging the two coasts of the Pacific in the sunny future...
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