David Leiwei Li

Economy, Emotion, and Ethics in Chinese Cinema

Globalization on Speed

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Produktbeschreibung

This book investigates major Chinese-language films from mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong in order to unpack a hyper-compressed capitalist modernity with distinctive Chinese characteristics. As a dialogue between the film genre as a mediation of microscopic social life, and the narrative of economic development as a macroscopic political abstraction, it engages the two otherwise remotely related worlds, illustrating how the State and the Subject are reconstituted cinematically in late capitalism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781138120969
• ISBN-10: 1138120960
• Artikelnr.: 43858363

Autorenporträt

David Leiwei Li is Professor of English and the Collins Professor of the Humanities at the University of Oregon, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: "Culture and Contemporary Chinese Cinema in the Second Coming
of Capitalism" Part I: Homo Economicus: Individual Liberty and Market
Dependency 1. "Primitive Accumulation and the Emergence of the Liberal
Subject in the People's Republic: Zhang Yimou's Red Sorghum and Zhou
Xiaowen's Ermo" 2. "Crazy English with a Chinese Face: Zhang Yuan's
Documentary on the Neoliberal Pedagogy of the Self" Part II: Homo
Sentimentalis: The Transformation of Family and Intimacy 3.
Neoliberalism's Family Values: (Re)production and (Re)creation in Ang Lee's
Trilogy and Zhang Yimou's Happy Times 4. The Deregulation of Affect in Hou
Hsiao-hsien and Yang De-chang Part III: Homo Ethicus: Towards Ecological
Justice 5. "The World of Jia Zhangke Viewed: Neorealist Aesthetics against
Neoliberal Logics" 6. "Abiding by Nature's Time: The Cautionary of Cannibal
Capitalism in Fruit Chan's Dumplings"