China on film : a century of exploration, confrontation, and controversy / Paul G. Pickowicz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pickowicz, Paul

Contributor:

Bloomsbury (Firm), publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion picture industry--China--History--20th century.

Motion picture industry.

Motion pictures--Political aspects--China--History--20th century.

Motion pictures.

Motion pictures--Social aspects--China--History--20th century.

Motion pictures--Political aspects.

Motion pictures--Social aspects.

China--In motion pictures.

China.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (377 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2025.

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Leading scholar Paul G. Pickowicz traces the dynamic history of Chinese filmmaking and its stunning development decade-by-decade since the 1920s. During the last one hundred years, China has been embroiled in a seemingly unending series of wars, revolutions, and jarring social transformations. Despite daunting censorship obstacles, Chinese filmmakers have found ingenious ways of taking political stands and weighing in-for better or worse-on the most explosive social, cultural, and economic issues of the day. Exploring the often gut-wrenching controversies generated by their w

Contents:

Introduction: the sorrows and joys of Chinese filmmaking: political and personal contexts

Shanghai twenties: early Chinese cinematic explorations of the modern marriage

The theme of spiritual pollution in Chinese films of the 1930s

Melodramatic representation and the "May fourth" tradition of Chinese filmmaking

Never-ending controversies: the case of remorse in Shanghai and occupation-era Chinese filmmaking

Victory as defeat: postwar visualizations of China's war of resistance

Acting like revolutionaries: Shi Hui, The Wenhua Studio, and private-sector filmmaking, 1949-1952

Zheng Junli, complicity, and the cultural history of socialist China, 1949-1976

The limits of thaw: Chinese cinema in the early 1960s

Popular cinema and political thought in early Post-Mao China: reflections on official pronouncements, film, and the film audience

On the eve of Tiananmen: Huang Jianxin and the notion of postsocialism

Velvet prison and the political economy of Chinese filmmaking in the late 1980s and early 1990s

Social and political dynamics of underground filmmaking in early twenty-first century China.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

979-88-8181-561-5

1-4422-1180-6

9786613362261

1-283-36226-0

OCLC:

768082539