Xiaoping Wang

China in the Age of Global Capitalism

Jia Zhangke's Filmic World

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Produktbeschreibung

Jia Zhangke is praised as "the most internationally prominent and celebrated figure of the Six-Generation of Chinese filmmakers". This book provides an examination the content and forms of Jia's featured films and analyzes their merits and faults. Jia's films often narrate the lives of ordinary Chinese people against the backdrop of the political-economic changes. The author conducts an in-depth analysis of how this change have ferociously impinged upon the characters' living conditions since China integrated itself with the world economy in the high tide of accelerated globalization since the 1970s. The author focuses on discussing the "politics of dignity" expressed by Jia's allegorical renditions to explore the director's political unconsciousness and cultural-political notions. This book maps ten of Jia Zhangke's films onto three major themes: Jia's filmmaking and China in the market society; truth claims and political unconscious; "post-socialist modernity" in the age of globalization. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of Chinese film studies, as well as other disciplines, such as political science, sociology, anthropology, etc.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 504g
• ISBN-13: 9780367367794
• ISBN-10: 0367367793
• Artikelnr.: 58057360

Inhaltsangabe

Contents. List of Illustrations. Acknowledgements. Introduction A Lyricist
of China's "Postsocialist Modernity" in the Age of Neoliberal
Transformation Part I Chapter One Recording Human Affection within Social
Transmutation: Portrayal of Early Reform China in Platform (2000) Chapter
Two Morality and Love in Post-Revolutionary China: A Pickpocket's Being and
Nothingness in Xiao Wu (1997) Chapter Three Hedonism, Nihilism and Roaming
in the Consumerist Wasteland: Unknown pleasures (2002) as a Fable of
Drifters in the Era of Globalization Part Two Chapter Four Post-Modern
Paradise or Post-Socialist Fantasy? New Proletariat and the Commodity World
of Alienation in The World (2002) Chapter Five Revolutionary Realism or
Socialist Realism? Chinese Goodman in Jia Zhangke's Still Life (2006)
Chapter Six Contradictions of Contemporary China from An Elite' s
Perspective: Sound and Fury in A Touch of Sin (2012) Part Three Chapter
Seven Orchestrating Workers' Memories and Chinese National History: The
Narrative Strategy and Aesthetics of 24 City (2008) Chapter Eight A
Postmodern Style of Historical Fragments and Elitist Historicism: Fiction
and Reality in I Wish I Knew (2010) Chapter Nine "China Consciousness" in
the Age of Globalization and Its Shortage: Mountains May Depart (2014) as a
Postmodern Film. Conclusion. The Cultural Politics of the "Poetics of
Vanishing". References. Appendix. Index