Paul G Pickowicz

China on Film

A Century of Exploration, Confrontation, and Controversy

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Produktbeschreibung

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 work, Pickowicz offers a unique and perceptive window on Chinese culture and society.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 155mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 703g
• ISBN-13: 9781442211780
• ISBN-10: 1442211784
• Artikelnr.: 34103568

Autorenporträt

Paul G. Pickowicz is Distinguished Professor of History and Chinese Studies at the University of California, San Diego, and inaugural holder of the UC San Diego Endowed Chair in Modern Chinese History.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Sorrows and Joys of Chinese Filmmaking: Political and
Personal Contexts Chapter 1: Shanghai Twenties: Early Chinese Cinematic
Explorations of the Modern Marriage Chapter 2: The Theme of Spiritual
Pollution in Chinese Films of the 1930s Chapter 3: Melodramatic
Representation and the May Fourth Tradition of Chinese Cinema Chapter 4:
Never-Ending Controversies: The Case of Remorse in Shanghai and
Occupation-Era Chinese Filmmaking Chapter 5: Victory as Defeat: Postwar
Visualizations of China's War of Resistance Chapter 6: Acting like
Revolutionaries: Shi Hui, the Wenhua Studio, and Private-Sector Filmmaking,
1949-1952 Chapter 7: Zheng Junli, Complicity, and the Cultural History of
Socialist China, 1949-1976 Chapter 8: The Limits of Cultural Thaw: Chinese
Cinema in the Early 1960s Chapter 9: Popular Cinema and Political Thought
in Early Post-Mao China: Reflections on Official Pronouncements, Film, and
the Film Audience Chapter 10: On the Eve of Tiananmen: Huang Jianxin and
the Notion of Postsocialism Chapter 11: Velvet Prisons and the Political
Economy of Chinese Filmmaking in the Late 1980s and Early 1990s Chapter 12:
Social and Political Dynamics of Underground Filmmaking in
Early-Twenty-First-Century China Additional Work on Chinese Cinema