Filming the Everyday

Independent Documentaries in Twenty-First-Century China
Herausgeber: Pickowicz, Paul G.; Zhang, Yingjin

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Produktbeschreibung

This cutting-edge book examines the rapidly developing scene of Chinese independent documentary, arguably the most courageous player in contemporary Chinese visual culture. The book's emphasis on current issues and its discussion of aesthetic experiments will appeal to all readers interested in China's culture, media, politics, and society.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 465g
• ISBN-13: 9781442270237
• ISBN-10: 1442270233
• Artikelnr.: 45375103

Autorenporträt

Paul G. Pickowicz is Distinguished Professor of History and Chinese Studies at the University of California, San Diego. Yingjin Zhang is Distinguished Professor of Literature and Chinese Studies at the University of California, San Diego.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Part I: Cultural Context 1. Introduction: Documenting China
Independently, by Paul G. Pickowicz and Yingjin Zhang 2. Who's Afraid of
the Documentary Camera? Refiguring Reality, Memory, and Power in Chinese
Independent Documentary, by Yingjin Zhang 3. For Whom Does the Director
Speak? The Ethics of Representation in Documentary Film Criticism, by Yomi
Braester, Part II: Rural Reconfigurations 4. From Root-Searching to
Grassroots: Returning to the Countryside in Contemporary Chinese Fiction
and Independent Documentary Film, by Angie Chau 5. Zou Xueping's
Postsocialist Homecoming, by Paul G. Pickowicz Part III: Embodied
Filmmaking 6. Looking Back while Marching Forward: Reconfiguration of
Selfhood in the Folk Memory Project, by Tong Wang 7. The Memory Project and
Other Ways of Knowing: Filmmaking, Affect, and Embodied Knowledge, by Laura
Kissel Part IV: Documentary Enactments 8. Gendering Intersubjectivity in
New Chinese Documentary: Feminist Multiplicity and Vulnerable Masculinity
in Postsocialist China, by Alvin Wong 9. From Bumming to Roaming: Xu Tong's
The Drifters Trilogy, by Yiman Wang 10. Documenting through Reenacting:
Revisiting the Performative Mode in Chinese Independent Documentaries, by
Hongjian Wang Appendix: Michael Berry, "Memory/Document: In Dialogue with
Wu Wenguang's Memory Project" Documentary Filmography About the
Contributors