| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 304 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Part I. Historical overview. Introduction / Chris Berry and Lisa Rofel ; Rethinking China's new documentary movement : engagement with the social / Lu Xinyu, translated by Tan Jia and Lisa Rofel, edited by Lisa Rofel and Chris Berry ; DV : individual filmmaking / Wu Wenguang, translated by Cathryn Clayton -- Part II. Documenting marginalization, or identities new and old. West of the tracks : history and class-consciousness / Lu Xinyu, translated by J.X. Zhang ; Coming out of The box, marching as dykes / Chao Shi-Yan -- Part III. Publics, counter-publics, and alternative publics. Blowup Beijing : the city as a twilight zone / Paola Voci ; Watching documentary : critical public discourses and contemporary urban Chinese film clubs / Seio Nakajima ; Alternative archive : China's independent documentary culture / Chris Berry and Lisa Rofel -- Part IV. Between filmmaker and subject : re-creating realism. Translating the unspeakable : on-screen and off-screen voices in Wu Wenguang's documentary work / Bérénice Reynaud ; From "public" to "private" : Chinese documentary and the logic of xianchang / Luke Robinson ; Excuse me, your camera is in my face : auteurial intervention in PRC new documentary / Yomi Braester ; "I am one of them" and "they are my actors" : performing, witnessing, and DV image-making in plebian China / Yiman Wang |
| Summary |
This title is a groundbreaking project that will be critical reading for scholars in disciplines ranging from film and media studies to Chinese studies and Asian studies. As a foundational text, it will stimulate further scholarship as well as provide a much-needed introduction to the new Chinese documentary film movement |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Documentary films -- China -- History and criticism
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Journalism.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Media Studies.
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Documentary films
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Dokumentarfilm
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China
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China
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Electronic books
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documentary film.
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Documentary films
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Documentary films.
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Documentaires.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Berry, Chris, 1959 April 28-
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Lü, Xinyu, 1965-
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Rofel, Lisa, 1953-
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| ISBN |
9789882206175 |
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9882206174 |
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9789882207202 |
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9882207200 |
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1283016982 |
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9781283016988 |
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9786613016980 |
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6613016985 |
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