The urban generation : Chinese cinema and society at the turn of the twenty-first century / Zhang Zhen, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Zhang, Zhen, 1962 July 8-

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--China.

Motion pictures.

Cities and towns in motion pictures.

City and town life in motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (459 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Introduction: Bearing Witness: Chinese Urban Cinema in the Era of "Transformation"

(Zhuanxing) / Zhang Zhen

Part 1. Ideology, Film Practice, and the Market

Rebel without a Cause? China's New Urban Generation and Postsocialist Filmmaking / Yingjin Zhang

The Independent Cinema of Jia Zhangke: From Postsocialist Realism to a

Transnational Aesthetic / Jason McGrath

Getting Real: Chinese Documentary, Chinese Postsocialism / Chris Berry

Part 2. 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

Tracing the City's Scars: Demolition and the Limits of the Documentary Impulse in the New Urban Cinema / Yomi Braester

Scaling the Skyscraper: Images of Cosmopolitan Consumption in Street Angel (1937) and Beautiful New World (1998) / Augusta Palmer

Whither the Walker Goes: Spatial Practices and Negative Poetics in 1990s Chinese Urban Cinema / Linda Chiu-han Lai

Part 3. The Production of Desire and Identities

Ning Ying's Beijing Trilogy: Cinematic Configurations of Age, Class, and Sexuality / Shuqin Cui

Zhang Yuan's Imaginary Cities and the Theatricalization of the Chinese "Bastards" / Berenice Reynaud

Mr. Zhao On and Off the Screen: Male Desire and Its Discontent / Xueping Zhong

Maintaining Law and Order in the City: New Tales of the People's Police / Yaohua Shi

Urban Dreamscape, Phantom Sisters, and the Identity of an Emergent Art Cinema / Zhang Zhen

Appendix. The Urban Generation Filmmakers (compiled by Charles Leary)

Bibliography.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [411]-427) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-92336-6

9786612923364

0-8223-9000-0

OCLC:

651719464