Western China on screen : an urban exploration / Hongyan Zou.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zou, Hongyuan, author.

Series:

Edinburgh scholarship online.

Edinburgh scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--China--History.

Motion pictures.

Cities and towns in motion pictures.

Cities and towns--China.

Cities and towns.

China--In motion pictures.

China.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 pages)

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2021.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Exploring the stories, memories and experiences attached to places, 'Western China on Screen' is the first monograph to explore the affinity between the cinema and cities of western China through a spatial perspective. Investigating how cinematic cities in western China appear as both spaces of national power and enclosed spaces of traditional cultural values, the book problematises the glamourised image of the post-socialist, technocratic metropolises of Beijing and Shanghai, breaking the long-existing rural and ethnographical images of western China established by Chinese Fifth Generation directors. Through case studies of films such as Rainclouds Over Wushan (1996), Buddha Mountain (2010) and Weaving Girl (2010), the book establishes a new way of looking at western urban China on screen: from a space of production to a space of increasing consumption.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Figures

PART I INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER 1 Cinematic Western China: The Under-represented Cinematic Cities

PART II CINEMATIC CHONGQING

CHAPTER 2 History, Cityscape and Spatial Stratification

CHAPTER 3 National Project and Disappearing Space

PART III CINEMATIC CHENGDU

CHAPTER 4 Spaces of Consumption Replace Spaces of Production

CHAPTER 5 Natural Disaster and Trauma

PART IV CINEMATIC XI’AN

CHAPTER 6 From an Enclosed Traditional Space to a Sprawling Urban Space

CHAPTER 7 Female Space and Bodies

PART V CINEMATIC LANZHOU

CHAPTER 8 Contrast between the Urban and the Rural Regarding Mental and Social Space

PART VI CONCLUSION

CHAPTER 9 Cinematic Western China: An Open Space for Spatial Imagination

Filmography

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on December 7, 2021).

ISBN:

1-4744-7788-7

1-3995-0168-2

1-4744-7787-9

OCLC:

1312726833