Hongyan Zou

Western China on Screen (eBook, ePUB)

An Urban Exploration

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 diversifies 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474477888
• Artikelnr.: 72413290

Autorenporträt

Hongyan Zou is a lecturer at the Foreign Language School of Sichuan University, China. She is the co-author of the book Chapter "Chinese films and the sense of place: Beijing as 'Thirdspace' from In the Heat of the Sun to Mr. Six" in the edited book Making Publics, Making Places (University of Adelaide Press, 2016). Her research focuses on the dynamic relationship between cinema and cities, Chinese urban cinema, Chinese minority films and Chinese Westerns.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter One: Introduction: Cinematic western China: the under-represented cinematic cities
Chapter Two: Cinematic Chongqing: History, Cityscape and Spatial Stratification
Chapter Three: National Projects and Disappearing Spaces: the Mundane Daily Practices Matter
Chapter Four: Cinematic Chengdu: Erasing Socialist Utopia through Political Reorientation
Chapter Five: Natural disaster and trauma: dysfunctional families in urban space
Chapter Six: Cinematic Xi'an: from an enclosed traditional space to a sprawling urban space
Chapter Seven: Female space and bodies as the medium of social representations
Chapter Eight: Cinematic Lanzhou: the rural victim of urban manipulative domination
Chapter Nine: Conclusion
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Filmography