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Building a New China in Cinema
Author | : Laikwan Pang |
Publsiher | : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
Total Pages | : 311 |
Release | : 2002-05-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780742572225 |
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Building a New China in Cinema introduces English readers for the first time to one of the most exciting left-wing cinema traditions in the world. This unique book explores the history, ideology, and aesthetics of China's left-wing cinema movement, a quixotic film culture that was as political as commercial, as militant as sensationalist. Drawing on detailed archival research, Pang demonstrates that this cinema movement was a product of the era's social, economic, and political discourses. The author offers a close analysis of many rarely seen films, richly illustrated with over eighty stills collected from the Beijing Film Archive. With its original conceptual approach and rich use of primary sources, this book will be of interest not only to scholars and fans of Chinese cinema but to those who study the relationship between cinema and modernity.
Building a New China in Cinema
Author | : Laikwan Pang |
Publsiher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 074250946X |
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Building a New China in Cinema introduces English readers for the first time to one of the most exciting left-wing cinema traditions in the world. This unique book explores the history, ideology, and aesthetics of China's left-wing cinema movement, a quixotic film culture that was as political as commercial, as militant as sensationalist. Originating in the 1930s, it marked the first systematic intellectual involvement in Chinese cinema. In this era of turmoil and idealism, the movement's films were characterized by fantasies of heroism intertwined with the inescapable spell of impotency, thus exposing the contradictions of the filmmakers' underlying ideology as their political and artistic agendas alternately fought against or catered to the taste and viewing habits of a popular audience. Political cinema became a commercially successful industry, resulting in a film culture that has never been replicated. Drawing on detailed archival research, Pang demonstrates that this cinema movement was a product of the era's social, economic, and political discourses. The author offers a close analysis of many rarely seen films, richly illustrated with over eighty stills collected from the Beijing Film Archive. With its original conceptual approach and rich use of primary sources, this book will be of interest not only to scholars and fans of Chinese cinema but to those who study the relationship between cinema and modernity.
Fiery Cinema
Author | : Weihong Bao |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Motion pictures |
ISBN | : 0816681333 |
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Introduction -- Resonance. Fiery action: toward an aesthetics of new heroism -- A culture of resonance: hypnotism, wireless cinema, and the invention of intermedial spectatorship -- Transparency. Dances of fire: mediating affective immediacy -- Transparent Shanghai: cinema, architecture, and a left-wing culture of glass -- Agitation. "A vibrating art in the air": the infinite cinema and the media ensemble of propaganda -- Baptism by fire: atmospheric war, agitation, and a tale of three cities.
New Chinese Cinemas
Author | : Nick Browne |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521448778 |
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New Chinese Cinemas analyses the changing forms and significance of filmmaking in the People's Republic of China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong since the end of the Cultural Revolution, with a particular emphasis on how film comments on the profound social changes that have occurred in East Asia over the past two decades. Considering in detail both conservative and progressive stances on economic 'modernisation', it also demonstrates how film has been an important formal structure and social document in the interpretation of these changes. The essays collected here, which were specially commissioned for this volume, also offer extended analyses of the important trends, styles and work that define Chinese filmmaking in the 1980s.
The Urban Generation
Author | : Zhen Zhang |
Publsiher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 468 |
Release | : 2007-03-28 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0822340747 |
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DIVAn anthology that explores film works by the "urban generation,"--filmmakers who operate outside of "mainstream" (officially sanctioned) Chinese cinema -- whose impact has been enormous./div
Ideology and Utopia in China s New Wave Cinema
Author | : Xiaoping Wang |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2018-06-27 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9783319911403 |
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Ideology and Utopia in China’s New Wave Cinema investigates the ways in which New Wave filmmakers represent China in this age of neoliberal reform. Analyzing this paradigm shift in independent cinema, this text explores the historicity of the cinematic form and its cultural-political visions. Through a close reading of the narrative strategy of key films in New Wave Cinema, Xiaoping Wang studies the movement’s impact on film, literature, culture and politics.
The Chinese Cinema Book
Author | : Song Hwee Lim,Julian Ward |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2020-04-30 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9781911239550 |
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This revised and updated new edition provides a comprehensive introduction to the history of cinema in mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, as well as to disaporic and transnational Chinese film-making, from the beginnings of cinema to the present day. Chapters by leading international scholars are grouped in thematic sections addressing key historical periods, film movements, genres, stars and auteurs, and the industrial and technological contexts of cinema in Greater China.
The New Chinese Documentary Film Movement
Author | : Chris Berry,Lu Xinyu,Lisa Rofel |
Publsiher | : Hong Kong University Press |
Total Pages | : 319 |
Release | : 2010-06-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9789888028511 |
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The New Chinese Documentary Film Movement is a groundbreaking project unveiling recent documentary film work that has transformed visual culture in China, and brought new immediacy along with a broader base of participation to Chinese media. As a foundational text, this volume provides a much-needed introduction to the topic of Chinese documentary film, the signature mode of contemporary Chinese visual culture. These essays examine how documentary filmmakers have opened up a unique new space of social commentary and critique in an era of rapid social changes amid globalization and marketization. The essays cover topics ranging from cruelty in documentary to the representation of Beijing; gay, lesbian and queer documentary; sound in documentary; the exhibition context in China; authorial intervention and subjectivity; and the distinctive "on the spot" aesthetics of contemporary Chinese documentary. This volume will be critical reading for scholars in disciplines ranging from film and media studies to Chinese studies and Asian studies.