Calvin Hui

The Art of Useless

Fashion, Media, and Consumer Culture in Contemporary China

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Produktbeschreibung

The Art of Useless offers an innovative way to understand Chinaâ s political-economic, social, and cultural transformations, showing how consumer culture helps anticipate, produce, and shape a new middle-class subjectivity. Calvin Hui examines changing representations of the production and consumption of fashion in documentaries and films.

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Produktdetails

• Global Chinese Culture
• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. September 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 152mm x 226mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 394g
• ISBN-13: 9780231192491
• ISBN-10: 0231192495
• Artikelnr.: 60798024

Autorenporträt

Calvin Hui

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Trouble with Naming: Middle-Class Culture,
Petty-Bourgeois Sensibility, and Zhuang (¿)
1. Dirty Fashion: Ma Ke's Fashion Exhibit Useless (2007), Jia Zhangke's
Documentary Film Useless (2007), and Cognitive Mapping
2. The High-Quality Suit, Class Struggle, and Cultural Revolution: The
Politics of Consumption in Xie Tieli's Film Never Forget (1964)
3. "Mao's Children Are Wearing Fashion!" Romantic Love, Fashion
Consumption, and Modernization Politics in Huang Zumo's Film Romance on Lu
Mountain (1980)
4. Imag(in)ing the Chinese Middle-Class Culture: White-Collar Work,
Romantic Love, and Fashion Consumption
5. Between Production and Consumption: Chinese Migrant Factory Workers in
Documentary Films and Ethnographic Works
6. The Psychic Life of Rubbish: On Wang Jiuliang's Documentary Film
Beijing Besieged by Waste (2010)
Notes
Works Cited
Index