Screen LibraryChina on film : a century of exploration, confrontation, and controversy /
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| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | x, 364 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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| Index Number: | PN1993 |
| CLC: | J909.2 |
| Call Number: | J909.2/P597 |
| Contents: | Introduction : The sorrows and joys of Chinese filmmaking: political and personal contexts -- Shanghai twenties: early Chinese cinematic explorations of the modern marriage -- The theme of spiritual pollution in Chinese films of the 1930s -- Melodramatic representation and the May Fourth tradition of Chinese cinema -- Never-ending controversies: the case of Remorse in Shanghai and occupation-era Chinese filmmaking -- Victory as defeat: postwar visualizations of China's war of resistance -- Acting like revolutionaries: Shi Hui, the Wenhua Studio, and private-sector filmmaking, 1949-1952 -- Zheng Junli, complicity, and the cultural history of Socialist China, 1949-1976 -- The limits of cultural thaw: Chinese cinema in the early 1960s -- Popular cinema and political thought in early post-Mao China: reflections on official pronouncements, film, and the film audience -- On the eve of Tiananmen: Huang Jianxin and the notion of postsocialism -- Velvet prisons and the political economy of Chinese filmmaking in the late 1980s and early 1990s -- Social and political dynamics of underground filmmaking in early twenty-first-century China. |