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Screening post-1989 China : critical analysis of Chinese film and television / Wing Shan Ho.
Van Pelt Library PN1993.5.C4 H55 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ho, Wing Shan, 1981- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motion pictures--China--History.
- Motion pictures.
- Visual communication--Social aspects.
- History.
- Visual communication.
- China.
- Television broadcasting--China--History.
- Television broadcasting.
- Visual communication--Social aspects--China--History.
- China--Civilization--1976-2002.
- Civilization.
- China--Civilization--2002-.
- Physical Description:
- 227 pages ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
- Contents:
- Introduction: how far can we go in controlling and negotiating cultural production and consumption
- Part 1. Screening the economic subject in films
- Selfless party officials and the socialist legacy
- Insulting portrayals of the era: selling one's son, murder, and human trafficking
- Part 2. Screening the sexual subject on the television
- Golden marriage: an exemplary marriage and a harmonious society
- Narrow dwelling: extra-marital sex and the city
- Part 3. Screening the political subject in films
- Selling party patriotism to intellectuals in the Chinese blockbuster hero
- (Dis)associating political dissent and non-heteronormative sexual desire
- Conclusion: how far have we gone.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781137517609
- 1137517603
- OCLC:
- 898206188
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