vernacular modernism in action

[Jonathan M. Hall]

Dear All,

Responses to Alex Zahlten's now dated request for examples of vernacular
modernism deployed in an East Asian context included the central article by
Miriam Hansen, "The Mass Production of the Senses: Classical Cinema as
Vernacular Modernism," which appears in Gledhill and Williams, eds.,
Reinventing Film Studies.

Let me add to that a strong recommendation to read Hansen's "Fallen Women,
Rising Stars, New Horizons: Shanghai Silent Film as Vernacular Modernism."
The article appears in Film Quarterly 54:1 (Fall 2000).  The piece was
awarded the  Katherine Singer Kovacs Award for best essay by  the Society
for Cinema Studies.

Recent work by Miriam Silverberg, especially her articles in Positions, also
pursues similar questions, although Silverberg does not use the concept by
name.

Jonathan M. Hall


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