Xiaoping Wang

China in the Age of Global Capitalism (eBook, ePUB)

Jia Zhangke's Filmic World

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book is a comprehensive exploration of the content, forms, merits, and faults of Jia Zhangke's films. It analyzes ten of his featured film regarding 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000702439
• Artikelnr.: 57981889

Autorenporträt

Xiaoping Wang is Chair Professor of Chinese studies at Huaqiao University and adjunct professor of the Institute of Arts and Humanities at Shanghai Jiaotong University. His research interests include modern and contemporary Chinese literature, culture and critical theory.

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