Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Note on transliteration; 1 Smaller-screen realities; 2 Building bridges: From silver screens to smaller-screen realities; 3 Animations; 4 Portable movies: Cellflix; 5 Egao movies: Wicked fun, participatory culture, and enlightenment; 6 Light political documentaries; 7 Lightened (up) subaltern smaller screens; 8 Smaller screens: Film spaces and theories; 9 An afterword on lightness: Quasi-conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Selected movies; Selected websites; Index
Summary
Relocates Chinese independent movie making from a film to a visual culture perspective enabling the author to explore the role that other movies (mostly, but not exclusively, popular culture products) play in the making of experimental and non-mainstream visual culture
