The Urban Generation: Chinese Cinema and Society at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century
Herausgeber: Zhang, Zhen
The Urban Generation: Chinese Cinema and Society at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century
Herausgeber: Zhang, Zhen
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An anthology that explores film works by the "urban generation,"--filmmakers who operate outside of "mainstream" (officially sanctioned) Chinese cinema -- whose impact has been enormous.
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An anthology that explores film works by the "urban generation,"--filmmakers who operate outside of "mainstream" (officially sanctioned) Chinese cinema -- whose impact has been enormous.
Produktdetails
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- Verlag: Duke University Press
- Seitenzahl: 464
- Erscheinungstermin: März 2007
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 229mm x 159mm x 32mm
- Gewicht: 647g
- ISBN-13: 9780822340744
- ISBN-10: 0822340747
- Artikelnr.: 22534992
- Verlag: Duke University Press
- Seitenzahl: 464
- Erscheinungstermin: März 2007
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 229mm x 159mm x 32mm
- Gewicht: 647g
- ISBN-13: 9780822340744
- ISBN-10: 0822340747
- Artikelnr.: 22534992
Zhang Zhen is Associate Professor of Cinema Studies at New York University. She is the author of An Amorous History of the Silver Screen: Shanghai Cinema, 1896–1937.
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Bearing Witness: Chinese Urban Cinema in the Era of
“Transformation” (Zhuanxing) / Zhang Zhen 1
I. Ideology, Film Practice, and the Market
Rebel without a Cause? China’s New Urban Generation and Postsocialist
Filmmaking / Yingjin Zhang 49
The Independent Cinema of Jia Zhangke: From Postsocialist Realism to a
Transnational Aesthetic / Jason McGrath 81
Getting Real: Chinese Documentary, Chinese Postsocialism / Chris Berry 115
II. The Politics and Poetics of Urban Space
Tear down the City: Reconstructing Urban Space in Contemporary Chinese
Popular Cinema and Avant-Garde Art / Sheldon H. Lu 137
Tracing the City’s Scars: Demolition and the Limits of the Documentary
Impulse in the New Urban Cinema / Yomi Braester 161
Scaling the Skyscraper: Images of Cosmopolitan Consumption in Street Angel
(1937) and Beautiful New World (1998) / Augusta Palmer 181
Whither the Walker Goes: Spatial Practices and Negative Poetics in 1990s
Chinese Urban Cinema / Linda Chiu-Han Lai 205
III. The Production of Desire and Identities
Ning Ying’s Beijing Trilogy: Cinematic Configurations of Age, Class, and
Sexuality / Shuqin Cui 241
Zhang Yuan’s Imaginary Cities and the Theatricalization of the Chinese
“Bastards” / Bérénice Reynaud 264
Mr. Zhao On and Off the Screen: Male Desire and Its Discontent / Xueping
Zhong 295
Maintaining Law and Order in the City: New Tales of the People’s Police /
Yaohua Shi 316
Urban Dreamscape, Phantom Sisters, and the Identity of an Emergent Art
Cinema / Zhang Zhen 344
Appendix: The Urban Generation Filmmakers (compiled by Charles Leary) 389
Bibliography 411
Contributors 429
Index 431
Introduction: Bearing Witness: Chinese Urban Cinema in the Era of
“Transformation” (Zhuanxing) / Zhang Zhen 1
I. Ideology, Film Practice, and the Market
Rebel without a Cause? China’s New Urban Generation and Postsocialist
Filmmaking / Yingjin Zhang 49
The Independent Cinema of Jia Zhangke: From Postsocialist Realism to a
Transnational Aesthetic / Jason McGrath 81
Getting Real: Chinese Documentary, Chinese Postsocialism / Chris Berry 115
II. The Politics and Poetics of Urban Space
Tear down the City: Reconstructing Urban Space in Contemporary Chinese
Popular Cinema and Avant-Garde Art / Sheldon H. Lu 137
Tracing the City’s Scars: Demolition and the Limits of the Documentary
Impulse in the New Urban Cinema / Yomi Braester 161
Scaling the Skyscraper: Images of Cosmopolitan Consumption in Street Angel
(1937) and Beautiful New World (1998) / Augusta Palmer 181
Whither the Walker Goes: Spatial Practices and Negative Poetics in 1990s
Chinese Urban Cinema / Linda Chiu-Han Lai 205
III. The Production of Desire and Identities
Ning Ying’s Beijing Trilogy: Cinematic Configurations of Age, Class, and
Sexuality / Shuqin Cui 241
Zhang Yuan’s Imaginary Cities and the Theatricalization of the Chinese
“Bastards” / Bérénice Reynaud 264
Mr. Zhao On and Off the Screen: Male Desire and Its Discontent / Xueping
Zhong 295
Maintaining Law and Order in the City: New Tales of the People’s Police /
Yaohua Shi 316
Urban Dreamscape, Phantom Sisters, and the Identity of an Emergent Art
Cinema / Zhang Zhen 344
Appendix: The Urban Generation Filmmakers (compiled by Charles Leary) 389
Bibliography 411
Contributors 429
Index 431
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Bearing Witness: Chinese Urban Cinema in the Era of
“Transformation” (Zhuanxing) / Zhang Zhen 1
I. Ideology, Film Practice, and the Market
Rebel without a Cause? China’s New Urban Generation and Postsocialist
Filmmaking / Yingjin Zhang 49
The Independent Cinema of Jia Zhangke: From Postsocialist Realism to a
Transnational Aesthetic / Jason McGrath 81
Getting Real: Chinese Documentary, Chinese Postsocialism / Chris Berry 115
II. The Politics and Poetics of Urban Space
Tear down the City: Reconstructing Urban Space in Contemporary Chinese
Popular Cinema and Avant-Garde Art / Sheldon H. Lu 137
Tracing the City’s Scars: Demolition and the Limits of the Documentary
Impulse in the New Urban Cinema / Yomi Braester 161
Scaling the Skyscraper: Images of Cosmopolitan Consumption in Street Angel
(1937) and Beautiful New World (1998) / Augusta Palmer 181
Whither the Walker Goes: Spatial Practices and Negative Poetics in 1990s
Chinese Urban Cinema / Linda Chiu-Han Lai 205
III. The Production of Desire and Identities
Ning Ying’s Beijing Trilogy: Cinematic Configurations of Age, Class, and
Sexuality / Shuqin Cui 241
Zhang Yuan’s Imaginary Cities and the Theatricalization of the Chinese
“Bastards” / Bérénice Reynaud 264
Mr. Zhao On and Off the Screen: Male Desire and Its Discontent / Xueping
Zhong 295
Maintaining Law and Order in the City: New Tales of the People’s Police /
Yaohua Shi 316
Urban Dreamscape, Phantom Sisters, and the Identity of an Emergent Art
Cinema / Zhang Zhen 344
Appendix: The Urban Generation Filmmakers (compiled by Charles Leary) 389
Bibliography 411
Contributors 429
Index 431
Introduction: Bearing Witness: Chinese Urban Cinema in the Era of
“Transformation” (Zhuanxing) / Zhang Zhen 1
I. Ideology, Film Practice, and the Market
Rebel without a Cause? China’s New Urban Generation and Postsocialist
Filmmaking / Yingjin Zhang 49
The Independent Cinema of Jia Zhangke: From Postsocialist Realism to a
Transnational Aesthetic / Jason McGrath 81
Getting Real: Chinese Documentary, Chinese Postsocialism / Chris Berry 115
II. The Politics and Poetics of Urban Space
Tear down the City: Reconstructing Urban Space in Contemporary Chinese
Popular Cinema and Avant-Garde Art / Sheldon H. Lu 137
Tracing the City’s Scars: Demolition and the Limits of the Documentary
Impulse in the New Urban Cinema / Yomi Braester 161
Scaling the Skyscraper: Images of Cosmopolitan Consumption in Street Angel
(1937) and Beautiful New World (1998) / Augusta Palmer 181
Whither the Walker Goes: Spatial Practices and Negative Poetics in 1990s
Chinese Urban Cinema / Linda Chiu-Han Lai 205
III. The Production of Desire and Identities
Ning Ying’s Beijing Trilogy: Cinematic Configurations of Age, Class, and
Sexuality / Shuqin Cui 241
Zhang Yuan’s Imaginary Cities and the Theatricalization of the Chinese
“Bastards” / Bérénice Reynaud 264
Mr. Zhao On and Off the Screen: Male Desire and Its Discontent / Xueping
Zhong 295
Maintaining Law and Order in the City: New Tales of the People’s Police /
Yaohua Shi 316
Urban Dreamscape, Phantom Sisters, and the Identity of an Emergent Art
Cinema / Zhang Zhen 344
Appendix: The Urban Generation Filmmakers (compiled by Charles Leary) 389
Bibliography 411
Contributors 429
Index 431