Filming the everyday : independent documentaries in twenty-first-century China / edited by Paul G. Pickowicz and Yingjin Zhang.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pickowicz, Paul, editor.

Zhang, Yingjin, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Documentary films--China--History--21st century.

Documentary films.

History.

China.

Physical Description:

vii, 203 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2017]

Summary:

This cutting-edge book examines the rapidly developing scene of Chinese independent documentary, arguably the most courageous player in contemporary Chinese visual culture. The authors explore two areas that are of special interest to China studies and film studies, respectively: (1) filming the everyday in twenty-first-century China to foreground contestation and diversity and (2) exploring the aesthetic of remembering in an embodied documentary practice, which turns the gaze on artists themselves and encourages the viewer's engagement with the filmed subjects and environment. The book's emphasis on contemporary issues and its discussion of aesthetic experiments will appeal to all readers interested in China's culture, media, politics, and society. Book jacket.

Contents:

Pt. 1. Cultural context

Paul G. Pickowicz and Yingjin Zhang, "Introduction: documenting China independently"

Yingjin Zhang, "Who's afraid of the documentary camera" refiguring reality, memory, and power in Chinese independent documentary

Yomi Braester, "For whom does the director speak" the ethics of representation in documentary film criticism

Pt. 2. Rural reconfigurations

Angie Chau, "From root-searching to grassroots: returning to the countryside in contemporary Chinese fiction and independent documentary film"

Paul G. Pickowicz, "Zou Xueping's postsocialist homecoming"

Pt. 3. Embodied filmmaking

Tong Wang, "Looking back while marching forward: reconfiguration of selfhood in the folk memory project"

Laura Kissel, "The memory project and other ways of knowing: filmmaking, affect, and embodied knowledge"

Pt. 4. Documentary enactments

Alvin Wong, "Gendering intersubjectivity in new Chinese documentary: feminist multiplicity and vulnerable masculinity in postsocialist China"

Yiman Wang, "From bumming to roaming: Xu Tong's the Drifters trilogy"

Hongjian Wang, "Documenting through reenacting: revisiting the performative mode in Chinese independent documentaries" Appendix: Michael Berry, "Memory/document: in dialogue with Wu Wenguang's memory project"

Filmography.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references, filmography, and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Filming the everyday

ISBN:

9781442270244

9781442270237

1442270233

1442270241

OCLC:

968690173

Publisher Number:

99970609491