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China on Film : a Century of Exploration, Confrontation, and Controversy.

Leading scholar Paul G. Pickowicz traces the dynamic history of Chinese filmmaking and its stunning development decade-by-decade since the 1920s. During the last one hundred years, China has been embroiled in a seemingly unending series of wars, revolutions, and jarring social transformations. Despi...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Pickowicz, Paul
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2011.
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  • Acknowledgments; Introduction. The Sorrows and Joys of Chinese Filmmaking: Political and Personal Contexts; Chapter 1. Shanghai Twenties: Early Chinese Cinematic Explorations of the Modern Marriage; Chapter 2. The Theme of Spiritual Pollution in Chinese Films of the 1930s; Chapter 3. Melodramatic Representation and the May Fourth Tradition of Chinese Cinema; Chapter 4. Never-Ending Controversies: The Case of Remorse in Shanghai and Occupation-Era Chinese Filmmaking; Chapter 5. Victory as Defeat: Postwar Visualizations of China's War of Resistance.
  • Chapter 6. Acting Like Revolutionaries: Shi Hui, the Wenhua Studio, and Private-Sector Filmmaking, 1949-1952Chapter 7. Zheng Junli, Complicity, and the Cultural History of Socialist China, 1949-1976; Chapter 8. The Limits of Cultural Thaw: Chinese Cinema in the Early 1960s; Chapter 9. Popular Cinema and Political Thought in Early Post-Mao China: Reflections on Official Pronouncements, Film, and the Film Audience; Chapter 10. On the Eve of Tiananmen: Huang Jianxin and the Notion of Postsocialism.
  • Chapter 11. Velvet Prisons and the Political Economy of Chinese Filmmaking in the Late 1980s and Early 1990sChapter 12. Social and Political Dynamics of Underground Filmmaking in Early Twenty-First-Century China; Additional Work on Chinese Cinema by Paul G. Pickowicz; Index; About the Author.