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1 online resource (x, 447 pages) : illustrations |
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e-Duke books scholarly collection.
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Introduction: Bearing witness : Chinese urban cinema in the era of "transformation" (zhuanxing) / Zhang Zhen -- Rebel without a cause? : China's new urban generation and postsocialist filmmaking / Yingjin Zhang -- The independent cinema of Jia Zhangke : from postsocialist realism to a transnational aesthetic / Jason McGrath -- Getting real : Chinese documentary, Chinese postsocialism / Chris Berry -- Tear down the city : reconstructing urban space in contemporary Chinese popular cinema and avant-garde art / Sheldon H. Lu -- Tracing the city's scars : demolition and the limits of the documentary impulse in the new urban cinema / Yomi Braester -- Scaling the skyscraper : images of cosmopolitan consumption in Street angel (1937) and Beautiful new world (1998) / Augusta Palmer -- Whither the walker goes : spatial practices and negative poetics in 1990s Chinese urban cinema / Linda Chiu-Han Lai -- Ning Ying's Beijing trilogy : cinematic configurations of age, class, and sexuality / Shuqin Cui -- Zhang Yuan's imaginary cities and the theatricalization of the Chinese "bastards" / Bérénice Reynaud -- Mr. Zhao on and off the screen : male desire and its discontent / Xueping Zhong -- Maintaining law and order in the city : new tales of the people's police / Yaohua Shi -- Urban dreamscape, phantom sisters, and the identity of an emergent art cinema / Zhang Zhen -- The urban generation filmmakers / Charles Leary |
| Summary |
Since the early 1990s, while mainland China's state-owned movie studios have struggled with financial and ideological constraints, an exciting alternative cinema has developed. Dubbed the "Urban Generation," this new cinema is driven by young filmmakers who emerged in the shadow of the events at Tiananmen Square in 1989. What unites diverse directors under the "Urban Generation" rubric is their creative engagement with the wrenching economic and social transformations underway in China. Urban Generation filmmakers are vanguard interpreters of the confusion and anxiety triggered by the massive urbanization of contemporary China. This collection brings together some of the most recent original research on this emerging cinema and its relationship to Chinese society. The contributors analyze the historical and social conditions that gave rise to the Urban Generation, its aesthetic innovation, and its ambivalent relationship to China's mainstream film industry and the international film market |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 411-427) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Bibel Philemonbrief gnd |
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China Zusammenstellung gnd |
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Motion pictures -- China.
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Cities and towns in motion pictures.
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City and town life in motion pictures.
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ART -- Film & Video.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- Reference.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- History & Criticism.
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Cities and towns in motion pictures
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City and town life in motion pictures
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Motion pictures
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Stadt Motiv
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Sozialer Wandel
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Film
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Film -- China -- Geschichte 2001 ff.
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Film -- Gesellschaft -- China -- Geschichte 2001 ff.
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China
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China
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Zhang, Zhen, 1962 July 8- editor.
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| ISBN |
9780822390008 |
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0822390000 |
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1282923366 |
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9781282923362 |
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9786612923364 |
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6612923369 |
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0822340534 |
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9780822340539 |
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