Memory, subjectivity and independent Chinese cinema / Qi Wang.

By:

Wang, Qi, 1973- [author.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Edinburgh studies in East Asian filmPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (xii, 252 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780748692347
0748692347
9781474406390
1474406394

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Memory, subjectivity and independent Chinese cinema.DDC classification:

791.430951 23

LOC classification:

PN1993.5.C4

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Contents:

Part 1. From the past: subjectivity, memory and narrative -- Toward the figuration of a postsocialist subject -- For a narration of one's own -- Part 2. In the present: camera, documentary and performance -- Surface and edge: the cinema of Jia Zhangke and Lou Ye -- Personal documentary -- Performing bodies in experimental and digital media -- Conclusion: China's luckless but hopeful angels of history.

Summary: A historically informed examination of independent moving image works made between 1990 and 2010 in China. Memory, Subjectivity and Independent Chinese Cinema provides a historically informed examination of independent moving image works made between 1990 and 2010 in China. Showcasing an evolving personal mode of narrating memory, documenting reality, and inscribing subjectivity in over sixteen selected works that range from narrative film and documentary to experimental video and digital media (even including a multimedia avant-garde play), this book presents a provocative portrait of the independent filmmakers as a peculiarly pained yet active group of historical subjects of the transitional, post-socialist era. Through a connected investigation of cultural and cinematic concepts including historical consciousness, personal memory, narrative, performance, subjectivity, spatiality, and the body, Wang weaves a critical narrative of the formation of a unique post-socialist cultural consciousness that enables independent cinema and media to become a highly significant and effective conduit for historical thinking in contemporary China. Covers the following directors. Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige, Jia Zhangke, Jiang Wen, Lou Ye, Meng Jinghui, Wang Bing, Wang Guangli, Duan Jinchuan, Cui Zi'en, Shi Tou, and Tang Danhong, this book is essential reading for all students and scholars in Chinese film.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 226-235) and index.

Includes filmography: pages 223-226.

A historically informed examination of independent moving image works made between 1990 and 2010 in China. Memory, Subjectivity and Independent Chinese Cinema provides a historically informed examination of independent moving image works made between 1990 and 2010 in China. Showcasing an evolving personal mode of narrating memory, documenting reality, and inscribing subjectivity in over sixteen selected works that range from narrative film and documentary to experimental video and digital media (even including a multimedia avant-garde play), this book presents a provocative portrait of the independent filmmakers as a peculiarly pained yet active group of historical subjects of the transitional, post-socialist era. Through a connected investigation of cultural and cinematic concepts including historical consciousness, personal memory, narrative, performance, subjectivity, spatiality, and the body, Wang weaves a critical narrative of the formation of a unique post-socialist cultural consciousness that enables independent cinema and media to become a highly significant and effective conduit for historical thinking in contemporary China. Covers the following directors. Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige, Jia Zhangke, Jiang Wen, Lou Ye, Meng Jinghui, Wang Bing, Wang Guangli, Duan Jinchuan, Cui Zi'en, Shi Tou, and Tang Danhong, this book is essential reading for all students and scholars in Chinese film.

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