The Age of New Waves
Art Cinema and the Staging of Globalization
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 19 September 2013
- ISBN 9780199858286
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages378 pages
- Size 160x239x22 mm
- Weight 678 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 53 halftones 0
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Short description:
The Age of New Waves is a global and comparative study of new wave cinemas, from the French nouvelle vague to films from Taiwan and mainland China in the late twentieth century, that focuses on the relationships among art cinema, youth, and cities during the era of globalization.
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The Age of New Waves examines the origins of the concept of the "new wave" in 1950s France and the proliferation of new waves in world cinema over the past three decades. The book suggests that youth, cities, and the construction of a global market have been the catalysts for the cinematic new waves of the past half century. It begins by describing the enthusiastic engagement between French nouvelle vague filmmakers and a globalizing American cinema and culture during the modernization of France after World War II. It then charts the growing and ultimately explosive disenchantment with the aftermath of that massive social, economic, and spatial transformation in the late 1960s. Subsequent chapters focus on films and visual culture from Taiwan and contemporary mainland China during the 1980s and 1990s, and they link the recent propagation of new waves on the international film festival circuit to the "economic miracles" and consumer revolutions accompanying the process of globalization. While it travels from France to East Asia, the book follows the transnational movement of a particular model of cinema organized around mise en scène-or the interaction of bodies, objects, and spaces within the frame-rather than montage or narrative. The "master shot" style of directors like Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Tsai Ming-Liang, and Jia Zhangke has reinvented a crucial but overlooked tendency in new wave film, and this cinema of mise en scène has become a key aesthetic strategy for representing the changing relationships between people and the material world during the rise of a global market. The final chapter considers the interaction between two of the most global phenomena in recent film history-the transnational art cinema and Hollywood-and it searches for traces of an American New Wave.
The problem of the so-called 'new waves' is one that concerns cultural history and periodization generally, and not merely recent film history; nor is it exactly the same as that of 'avant-gardes', even though the two are related. James Tweedie's analysis of the French original is stimulating, but it is his study of the Chinese (and Taiwanese) versions that is truly revealing and I may even say indispensable.
Table of Contents:
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction Youth, Cities, and the Globalization of Art Cinema
SECTION ONE
Chapter One The Mise en Scène of Modernity: The French New Wave, Paris, and the Global 1960s
Chapter Two Walking in the City
Chapter Three New Wave Futures
SECTION TWO
Chapter Four The Urban Archipelago: Taiwan's New Wave and the East Asian Economic Boom
Chapter Five Morning in the Megacity: Taiwan and the Globalization of the City Film
Chapter Six The Haunting of Taipei
SECTION THREE
Chapter Seven Chinese Cinema in a World of Flows: The New Wave in the P.R.C.
Chapter Eight The Fifth Generation and the Youth of China
Chapter Nine On Living in a Young City
