Contemporary Chinese Cinema and Visual Culture
Envisioning the Nation
Series: Global East Asian Screen Cultures;
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
- Date of Publication 23 February 2023
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9781350254381
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages256 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Language English
- Illustrations 40 bw illus 431
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Honourable Mention, Best Monograph Award, BAFTSS Publication Awards 2022
Sheldon Lu's wide-ranging new book investigates how filmmakers and visual artists from mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan have envisioned China as it transitions from a socialist to a globalized capitalist state. It examines how the modern nation has been refashioned and re-imagined in order to keep pace with globalization and transnationalism.
At the heart of Lu's analysis is a double movement in the relationship between nation and transnationalism in the Chinese post-socialist state. He considers the complexity of how the Chinese economy is integrated in the global capitalist system while also remaining a repressive body politic with mechanisms of control and surveillance. He explores the interrelations of the local, the national, the subnational, and the global as China repositions itself in the world.
Lu considers examples from feature and documentary film, mainstream and marginal cinema, and a variety of visual arts: photography, painting, digital video, architecture, and installation. His close case studies include representations of class, masculinity and sexuality in contemporary Taiwanese and Chinese cinema; the figure of the sex worker as a symbol of modernity and mobility; and artists' representations of Beijing at the time of the 2008 Olympics.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: Refashioning the Nation in Transnational Cinema and Art
Part 1: Nationhood, Gender, Sexuality, Masculinity in Feature Film
1.Projecting the Chinese Nation on Domestic and Global Screens
2. Space, Mobility, Modernity: The Female Prostitute in Chinese-language Film
3. Re-orientations of Hong Kong Cinema and Transformations of Masculinity
4. Masculinity in Crisis: Male Characters in Jia Zhangke's Films
Part 2. Multimedia Engagements with the Local, National, and Global
5. Peripheral, Underground, and Independent Cinema
6. Performing and Romancing the Other in Film, Television Drama, and Ballet
7. Reshaping Beijing's Space: Architecture, Art, Photography, Film
8. Artistic and Multimedia Interventions
Conclusion: Globalization at Bay
Filmography
Bibliography
Index
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