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The Urban Generation : Chinese Cinema and Society at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century /

Since the early 1990s, while mainland China's state-owned movie studios have struggled with financial and ideological constraints, an exciting alternative cinema has developed. Dubbed the "Urban Generation," this new cinema is driven by young filmmakers who emerged in the shadow of th...

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Otros Autores: Zhang, Zhen, 1962 July 8- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2007.
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  • Introduction: Bearing witness : Chinese urban cinema in the era of "transformation" (zhuanxing) / Zhang Zhen
  • Rebel without a cause? : China's new urban generation and postsocialist filmmaking / Yingjin Zhang
  • The independent cinema of Jia Zhangke : from postsocialist realism to a transnational aesthetic / Jason McGrath
  • Getting real : Chinese documentary, Chinese postsocialism / Chris Berry
  • Tear down the city : reconstructing urban space in contemporary Chinese popular cinema and avant-garde art / Sheldon H. Lu
  • Tracing the city's scars : demolition and the limits of the documentary impulse in the new urban cinema / Yomi Braester
  • Scaling the skyscraper : images of cosmopolitan consumption in Street angel (1937) and Beautiful new world (1998) / Augusta Palmer
  • Whither the walker goes : spatial practices and negative poetics in 1990s Chinese urban cinema / Linda Chiu-Han Lai
  • Ning Ying's Beijing trilogy : cinematic configurations of age, class, and sexuality / Shuqin Cui
  • Zhang Yuan's imaginary cities and the theatricalization of the Chinese "bastards" / Berenice Reynaud
  • Mr. Zhao on and off the screen : male desire and its discontent / Xueping Zhong
  • Maintaining law and order in the city : new tales of the people's police / Yaohua Shi
  • Urban dreamscape, phantom sisters, and the identity of an emergent art cinema / Zhang Zhen
  • The urban generation filmmakers / Charles Leary.