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Chinese ecocinema : in the age of environmental challenge /

This anthology is a book-length study of China's ecosystem through the lens of cinema. Proposing 'ecocinema' as a new critical framework, the volume collectively investigates a wide range of urgent topics in today's world.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Lu, Sheldon H., Mi, Jiayan
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hong Kong : London : Hong Kong University Press ; Eurospan [distributor], 2009.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Hydro-politics : water, river, and national trauma. Framing ambient Unheimlich : ecoggedon, ecological unconscious, and water pathology in new Chinese cinema / Jiayan Mi ; Gorgeous Three Gorges at last sight : cinematic remembrance and the dialectic of modernization / Sheldon H. Lu ; Submerged ecology and depth psychology in Wushan yunyu : aesthetic insight into national development / Nick Kaldis ; Floating consciousness : the cinematic confluence of ecological aesthetics in Suzhou River / Andrew Hageman
  • Eco-aesthetics, heteroscape, and manufactured landscape. The idea-image : conceptualizing landscape in recent martial arts movies / Mary Farquhar ; Façades : the new Beijing and the unsettled ecology of Jia Zhangke's The world / Jerome Silbergeld ; Ruins and grassroots : Jia Zhangke's cinematic discontents in the age of globalization / Hongbing Zhang
  • Urban space in production and disappearance. Of humans and nature in documentary : the logic of capital in West of the tracks and Blind shaft / Ban Wang ; Toward a Hong Kong ecocinema : the dis-appearance of "nature" in three films by Fruit Chan / Chris Tong ; A city of disappearance : trauma, displacement, and spectral cityscape in contemporary Chinese cinema / Jing Nie
  • Bioethics, non-anthropocentrism, and green sovereignty. In the face of developmental ruins : place attachment and its ethical claims / Xinmin Liu ; Ning Hao's Incense : a curious tale of earthly Buddhism / Xiaoping Lin ; Putting back the animals : woman-animal meme in contemporary Taiwanese ecofeminist imagination / Chia-ju Chang ; "Reconstructing the god-fearing community" : filming Tibet in the twenty-first century / Donghui He.