The Art of Useless offers an innovative way to understand Chinaâ s political-economic, social, and cultural transformations, showing how consumer culture helps anticipate, produce, and shape a new middle-class subjectivity. Calvin Hui examines changing representations of the production and consumption of fashion in documentaries and films.
The Art of Useless offers an innovative way to understand Chinaâ s political-economic, social, and cultural transformations, showing how consumer culture helps anticipate, produce, and shape a new middle-class subjectivity. Calvin Hui examines changing representations of the production and consumption of fashion in documentaries and films.
Acknowledgments Introduction: The Trouble with Naming: Middle-Class Culture, Petty-Bourgeois Sensibility, and Zhuang (¿) 1. Dirty Fashion: Ma Ke's Fashion Exhibit Useless (2007), Jia Zhangke's Documentary Film Useless (2007), and Cognitive Mapping 2. The High-Quality Suit, Class Struggle, and Cultural Revolution: The Politics of Consumption in Xie Tieli's Film Never Forget (1964) 3. "Mao's Children Are Wearing Fashion!" Romantic Love, Fashion Consumption, and Modernization Politics in Huang Zumo's Film Romance on Lu Mountain (1980) 4. Imag(in)ing the Chinese Middle-Class Culture: White-Collar Work, Romantic Love, and Fashion Consumption 5. Between Production and Consumption: Chinese Migrant Factory Workers in Documentary Films and Ethnographic Works 6. The Psychic Life of Rubbish: On Wang Jiuliang's Documentary Film Beijing Besieged by Waste (2010) Notes Works Cited Index
Acknowledgments Introduction: The Trouble with Naming: Middle-Class Culture, Petty-Bourgeois Sensibility, and Zhuang (¿) 1. Dirty Fashion: Ma Ke's Fashion Exhibit Useless (2007), Jia Zhangke's Documentary Film Useless (2007), and Cognitive Mapping 2. The High-Quality Suit, Class Struggle, and Cultural Revolution: The Politics of Consumption in Xie Tieli's Film Never Forget (1964) 3. "Mao's Children Are Wearing Fashion!" Romantic Love, Fashion Consumption, and Modernization Politics in Huang Zumo's Film Romance on Lu Mountain (1980) 4. Imag(in)ing the Chinese Middle-Class Culture: White-Collar Work, Romantic Love, and Fashion Consumption 5. Between Production and Consumption: Chinese Migrant Factory Workers in Documentary Films and Ethnographic Works 6. The Psychic Life of Rubbish: On Wang Jiuliang's Documentary Film Beijing Besieged by Waste (2010) Notes Works Cited Index
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