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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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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2007.
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| Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
| Résumé: | 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 the events at Tiananmen Square in 1989. What unites diverse directors under the "Urban Generation" rubric is their creative engagement with the wrenching economic and social transformations underway in China. Urban Generation filmmakers are vanguard interpreters of the confusion and anxiety triggered by the massive urbanization of contemporary China. This collection brings together some of the most recent original research on this emerging cinema and its relationship to Chinese society. The contributors analyze the historical and social conditions that gave rise to the Urban Generation, its aesthetic innovation, and its ambivalent relationship to China's mainstream film industry and the international film market |
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| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (464 pages): illustrations |
| ISBN: | 9780822390008 |