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1 online resource (255 pages) |
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Routledge Contemporary China Ser |
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Routledge Contemporary China Ser
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Figures; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Revisiting the field of Chinese ecocinema; Theoretical perimeters and critical genealogy; "Chinese ecocinema" reconsidered; Keyword one: Chinese; Keyword two: ecology; Keyword three: film; What is Chinese ecocinema?; What can Chinese ecocinema do?; Chinese-language ecodocumentaries; Structure of the book; Notes; References; Part I: Ecodocumentaries and eco-festivals |
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Chapter 1: Mapping Taiwanese ecodocumentary landscape: Politics of aesthetics and environmental ethics in Taiwanese ecodocumentaries"Ecocinema" under debate; Ecodocumentary making in Taiwan; Laying the foundation for Taiwanese ecodocumentary making: The Lukang Anti-DuPont Movement; Endangered humans versus endanger nature: National Bandits; Eco-cosmopolitanism in practice: Swing; The politics of landscape aesthetics: Nimbus; The politics of popular ecocinema: Beyond Beauty: Taiwan from Above; Conclusion; Acknowledgements; Filmography; References |
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Chapter 2: Nature in the city: A study of Hong Kong's independent eco-film festivalIntroduction; The making of environmentally aware "citizen intellectuals"; The film festival as alternative public sphere; The FFFF and the eco-cosmopolitan public sphere; Documenting everyday life and its poetic struggle; Conclusion; Notes; References; Part II: Contemporary ecologies; Chapter 3: Three ecologies of cinema, migration, and the sea: Anchorage Prohibited and Luzon; Ecologies of the virtual; Hospitality and the acoustics of the seen and the unseen |
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Cinematic ecologies: the foreshortened lives of short cinemaMigratory ecologies and the temporal permanence of guestworkers; Luzon, maritime conflict and aesthetico-political risk; Notes; References; Chapter 4: Tracing extraction in contemporary Chinese cinema: Tie Xi Qu and the politics of the resource image; The materiality of ecocinema; Three ecologies; Tie Xi Qu; Materialities; Representational materialities; Corporeal materialities; Tangible materialities; Processual materialities; Conclusion; References; Chapter 5: Chai Jing's Under the Dome: A multimedia documentary in the digital age |
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The multiple documentary modePersonal/maternal voice; Interviews; Animation; Networked circulation and communication; The official; The netizens; The international; Conclusion; Notes; References; Part III: Humans and animals; Chapter 6: Global animal capital and animal garbage: Documentary redemption and hope; Theoretical rumination: animal-capital-garbage entanglement and documentary redemption; Animal capital and documentary activism; San Hua and Cala, My Dog!: consumption and redemption; (Trans)national moon bear documentaries: zootherapy and hope |
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The Lost Sea: cross-strait cold war and deep-time matter |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Motion pictures -- China -- History
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Documentary films -- China -- History
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Environmentalism in motion pictures.
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Ecology in motion pictures.
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Environmental protection and motion pictures.
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Documentary films
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Ecology in motion pictures
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Environmental protection and motion pictures
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Environmentalism in motion pictures
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Motion pictures
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China
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Gong, Haomin
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| ISBN |
9781000694796 |
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1000694798 |
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9781000697872 |
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1000697878 |
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9781000696332 |
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1000696332 |
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9780429316869 |
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0429316860 |
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