Moving Figures
Class and Feeling in the Films of Jia Zhangke
Series: Edinburgh Studies in East Asian Film;
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Edinburgh University Press
- Date of Publication 5 June 2018
- Number of Volumes Print PDF
- ISBN 9781474421614
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages208 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Weight 456 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 50 black and white illustrations Illustrations, black & white 0
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Short description:
This book focuses on how the ‘Reform Era’ has been constructed in the work of the director Jia Zhangke, analysing the archetypal class figures of worker, peasant, soldier, intellectual and entrepreneur that are found in his films.
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Since 1979, China has been undergoing a period of immense social and economic change, transitioning from state-run economics to free market capitalism. This book focuses on how the ‘Reform Era’ has been constructed in the work of the director Jia Zhangke, analysing the archetypal class figures of worker, peasant, soldier, intellectual and entrepreneur that are found in his films. Examining how these figures are represented, and how Jia’s cinematography creates those ‘structures of feeling’ that concretise around a particular time and place, the book argues that Jia’s cinema should be understood not just as narratives that represent Chinese social transition, but also as an effort to engage the audience’s emotional responses through representation, symbolism and the affective experience of specific cinematic tropes.
Making an important contribution to scholarship about the Reform Era, and opening up many new areas in the larger fields of Chinese visual culture, cultural studies and the affective qualities of film, this is groundbreaking work about a cinematic culture in a period of profound transformation.
Table of Contents:
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List of FiguresAcknowledgments
IntroductionApproach to FeelingClass in ChinaClass Figures and Their EffectsChapter Outlines
Chapter 1 – The Worker Class: From Leader To The MarginsIntroductionHistory of the ClassRepresentationCinematic Tropes: Moving Portraits and Interviews
Chapter 2 – The Peasant and the Mingong: From Empathy to Sympathy to Looking Back IntroductionHistory of the ClassRepresentation Cinematic Tropes: The POV Shot, Observation, Body, and the Gaze
Chapter 3 – The Soldier: From Degraded Reproduction to Avenging HeroIntroductionHistory of the ClassRepresentationCinematic Tropes: Wuxia and The Close-Up
Chapter 4 – The Intellectual: Power and the VoiceIntroductionHistory of the ClassRepresentationCinematic Tropes: Pseudomonologues and Observation
Chapter 5 – The Entrepreneur: From Crook to ""New Reform Model""IntroductionHistory of the ClassRepresentationCinematic Tropes: Advertisements and the Close-Up
FilmographyWorks CitedNotes
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