Film production in Iraq, Turkey, and Iran has struggled in the face of censorship, lack of government support, and competition from the U.S. film industry. Nevertheless, in the past few decades, Iranian and Turkish films have made their way onto the...

The history of modern Chinese cinema began on 11 August 1896, when a film by the French production studio Lumière Brothers was shown in Yu Gardens in Shanghai. The first Chinese production, the opera Dingjun shan (Dingjun Mountain) was filmed in...

The history of Chinese-language cinema has three separate threads of development: Cinema of Hong Kong, Cinema of China, and Cinema of Taiwan. The cinema of mainland China after 1949 has grown up somewhat suppressed by the Communist Party of China until...

China On Screen: Cinema and Nation, by Chris Berry and Mary Farquhar. New York: Columbia University Press, 2006. xvi + 313 pp. US$64.50/£41.40 (hardcover), US$24.50/£16.00 (paperback). Since the mid- '80s, when vital, new Fifth Generation films from the PRC began to attract international...

Wireless News 04-13-2007 Dolby Makes JPEG 2000 Digital Cinema Advancement in China WIRELESS NEWS-April 13, 2007-Dolby Makes JPEG 2000 Digital Cinema Advancement in China (C)2007 10Meters - http://www.10meters.com Dolby Laboratories announced that the China Research Institute of Film Science & Technology...