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1 online resource (377 pages) |
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Acknowledgments; Introduction. The Sorrows and Joys of Chinese Filmmaking: Political and Personal Contexts; Chapter 1. Shanghai Twenties: Early Chinese Cinematic Explorations of the Modern Marriage; Chapter 2. The Theme of Spiritual Pollution in Chinese Films of the 1930s; Chapter 3. Melodramatic Representation and the May Fourth Tradition of Chinese Cinema; Chapter 4. Never-Ending Controversies: The Case of Remorse in Shanghai and Occupation-Era Chinese Filmmaking; Chapter 5. Victory as Defeat: Postwar Visualizations of China's War of Resistance |
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Chapter 6. Acting Like Revolutionaries: Shi Hui, the Wenhua Studio, and Private-Sector Filmmaking, 1949-1952Chapter 7. Zheng Junli, Complicity, and the Cultural History of Socialist China, 1949-1976; Chapter 8. The Limits of Cultural Thaw: Chinese Cinema in the Early 1960s; Chapter 9. Popular Cinema and Political Thought in Early Post-Mao China: Reflections on Official Pronouncements, Film, and the Film Audience; Chapter 10. On the Eve of Tiananmen: Huang Jianxin and the Notion of Postsocialism |
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Chapter 11. Velvet Prisons and the Political Economy of Chinese Filmmaking in the Late 1980s and Early 1990sChapter 12. Social and Political Dynamics of Underground Filmmaking in Early Twenty-First-Century China; Additional Work on Chinese Cinema by Paul G. Pickowicz; Index; About the Author |
| Summary |
Leading scholar Paul G. Pickowicz traces the dynamic history of Chinese filmmaking and its stunning development decade-by-decade since the 1920s. During the last one hundred years, China has been embroiled in a seemingly unending series of wars, revolutions, and jarring social transformations. Despite daunting censorship obstacles, Chinese filmmakers have found ingenious ways of taking poli |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Motion picture industry -- China -- History -- 20th century
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Motion pictures -- Political aspects -- China -- History -- 20th century
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Motion pictures -- Social aspects -- China -- History -- 20th century
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ART -- Film & Video.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- Reference.
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Motion picture industry
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Motion pictures
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Motion pictures -- Political aspects
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Motion pictures -- Social aspects
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China -- In motion pictures.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024205
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China
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781442211803 |
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1442211806 |
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1283362260 |
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9781283362269 |
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9786613362261 |
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6613362263 |
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