Yomi Braester -- selected academic papers

   
  (a full list of publications is available upon request)


   
  • “The Political Campaign as Genre: Ideology and Iconography during the Seventeen Years Period,” Modern Languages Quarterly 69, no. 1 (March 2008): 119–140.

   
  • “Excuse Me, Your Camera Is in My Face: Auteurial Intervention in PRC New Documentary,” in Can Filmmaking Be a Public Sphere? Documentary Film and Video in East Asia as Social Practice, edited by Lisa Rofel, Chris Berry and Lü Xinyu (U of Minnesota Press, 2008).

   
  • “The Impossible Task of Taipei Films,” in Cinema Taiwan: State of the Art, States of the Mind, edited by Darrel Davis and Robert Chen (Routledge, 2007), pp. 51–59.

   
  "Tracing the City's Scars: Demolition and the Documentary Impulse in New Urban Cinema," in Zhen Zhang, ed., The Urban Generation: Chinese Cinema and Society at the Turn of the 21st Century, ed. Zhen Zhang (Duke UP, 2007), pp. 161–180).

   
  “‘A Big Dying Vat’: The Vilifying of Shanghai during the Good Eighth Company Campaign.” Modern China 31, no. 4 (October 2005): 411–447.

   
  “Chinese Cinema in the Age of Commercials Advertisement: the Filmmaker as a Cultural Broker.” China Quarterly September 2005: 549–564.

   
  “Longxugou—chengshi jingguan yu lishi jiyi” (Dragon Whiskers Creek: Urban Spectacle and Historical Memory). in Beijing: Dushi xiangxiang yu wenhua jiyi (Beijing: Urban imagination and cultural memory), eds. Chen Pingyuan and Wang Dewei (Beijing: Beijing daxue chubanshe, 2005), 410–431.

   
  “Tales of a Porous City: Public Residences and Private Streets in Taipei Films,” in Contested Modernities in Chinese Literature, ed. Charles Laughlin (New York: Palgrave, 2005), 157–170.

   
  "From Real Time to Virtual Reality: Chinese Cinema in the Internet Age," Journal of Contemporary China 12, no. 38 (2004): 89-104.
   
  "Farewell My Concubine: National Myth and Personal Memories," in Chinese Films in Focus: 25 New Takes, ed. Chris Berry (London: British Film Institute, 2003), 89-96. (read a review>>)
   
  "'If We Could Remember Everything, We Would Be Able to Fly': Taipei's Cinematic Poetics of Demolition," in Modern Chinese Literature and Culture 15, no. 1 (Spring 2003).
   
  "The Future of China's Memories: An Interview with Feng Jicai," Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese 5, no. 2 (January 2002): 131-48 (with Enhua Zhang).
   
  "Memory at a Standstill: Street-Smart History in Jiang Wen's In the Heat of the Sun," Screen 42, no. 4 (winter 2001): 350-362.
   
  "Revolution and Revulsion: Ideology, Monstrosity and Phantasmagoria in Ma-Xu Weibang's Film Song at Midnight," Modern Chinese Literature and Culture 12: 1 (Spring 2000): 81-114.
   
  "Taiwan rentong yu jiyi de weiji: Jiang hou de shenqi gushi" (Taiwanese Identity and the Crisis of Memory: Post-Chiang Mystery), in Liu Jihui, ed., Duanlie yu yanxu: Taiwan wutai shang wenhua jiyi de zhanyan (Disruption and continuity: the development of cultural memory on the Taiwan stage) (Taipei: Maitian, 2000).
   
  "Modern Identity and Karmic Retribution in Clara Law's Reincarnations of Golden Lotus," Asian Cinema 10: 1 (Fall 1998): 58-61.
   

"Shanghai's Economy of the Spectacle: The Shanghai Race Club in Liu Na'ou's and Mu Shiying's Stories," Modern Chinese Literature 9:1 (Spring 1995): 39-57.    
       
       
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