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1 online resource (309 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Art, Politics, and Commerce in Chinese Cinema; copyright page; Contents; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; Contributors; Introduction; Part 1 Film Industry:Local and Global Markets; 1. The Evolution of Chinese Film as an Industry; 2. Chinese Cinema's International Market; 3. American Films in China Prior to 1950; 4. Piracy and the Dvd/Vcd Market: Contradictions and Paradoxes; Part 2 Film Politics: Genre and Reception; 5. The Triumph of Cinema: Chinese Film Culture from the 1960s to the 1980s; 6. The Martial Arts Film in Chinese Cinema: Historicism and the National |
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7. Chinese Animation Film: From Experimentation to Digitalization8. Of Institutional Supervision and Individual Subjectivity:The History and Current State of Chinese Documentary; Part 3 Film Art:Style and Authorship; 9. The Cinematic Transition of the Fifth Generation Auteurs; 10. Transmedia Strategies of Appropriation and Visualization: The Case of Zhang Yimou's Adaptation of Novels in His Early Films; 11. Boundary Shifting: New Generation Filmmaking and Jia Zhangke's Films; 12. New Year Film as Chinese Blockbuster: From Feng Xiaogang's Contemporary Urban Comedy to Zhang Yimou's Period Drama |
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NotesFilmography; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
Art, politics and commerce are intertwined everywhere, but in China the interplay is explicit, intimate and elemental, and nowhere more so than in the film industry. Understanding this interplay in the era of market reform and globalization is essential to understanding mainland Chinese cinema. This inter disciplinary book provides a comprehensive reappraisal of Chinese cinema, surveying the evolution of film production and consumption in mainland China as a product of shifting relations between art, politics, and commerce. Within these arenas, each of the twelve chapters treats a particular history, development, genre, filmmaker or generation of filmmakers, adding up to a distinctively comprehensive rendering of Chinese cinema. The book illuminates China's changing state-society relations, the trajectory of marketization and globalization, the effects of China's stark historical shifts, Hollywood's role, the role of nationalism, and related themes of interest to scholars of Asian studies, cinema and media studies, political science, sociology, comparative literature and Chinese language |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-283) and index |
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Includes filmography: pages 249-259 |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| In |
HKU Press digital editions |
| Subject |
Art and motion pictures -- China -- History
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Motion picture industry -- Economic aspects -- China -- History
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Motion picture industry -- Political aspects -- China -- History
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Motion picture industry -- Social aspects -- China -- History
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Motion pictures -- China -- History
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- Media & Communications.
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Telecommunications.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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Art and motion pictures
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Motion picture industry -- Economic aspects
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Motion picture industry -- Political aspects
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Motion picture industry -- Social aspects
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Motion pictures
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China
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History
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Zhu, Ying, 1965- author.
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Rosen, Stanley, 1942- editor.
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| ISBN |
9789882205284 |
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9882205283 |
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