Building a new China in cinema : the Chinese left-wing cinema movement, 1932-1937 / Laikwan Pang.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pang, Laikwan, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--China.

Motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (311 p.)

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland ; Oxford, England : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Building a New China in Cinema introduces English readers for the first time to one of the most exciting left-wing cinema traditions in the world. This unique book explores the history, ideology, and aesthetics of China's left-wing cinema movement, a quixotic film culture that was as political as commercial, as militant as sensationalist. Drawing on detailed archival research, Pang demonstrates that this cinema movement was a product of the era's social, economic, and political discourses. The author offers a close analysis of many rarely seen films, richly illustrated with over eighty stills

Contents:

Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Translations and Abbreviations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; The History; 1 The Merging of Histories; 2 The Left-wing Cinema Movement; The Filmmakers and the Formation of a Collective Subjectivity; 3 The Role of Authorship in the Age of Nationalism; 4 Masculinity and Collectivism: Romancing Politics; 5 Women's Stories On-screen versus Off-screen; The Spectators and the Film Culture; 6 A Commercial Cinema or a Political Cinema?; 7 A Shanghai Cinema or a Chinese Cinema?; 8 Engaging Realism; Epilogue

Appendix I Chinese Left-wing Movies of the 1930sAppendix II Popular Chinese Movies, 1932-1937; Bibliography and Filmography; Index; About the Author

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9798765170854

1-299-85473-7

0-7425-7222-6

OCLC:

858229990