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Record Nr.

UNINA9910299998203321

Autore

Wang Xiaoping

Titolo

Ideology and Utopia in China's New Wave Cinema : Globalization and Its Chinese Discontents / / by Xiaoping Wang

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018

ISBN

3-319-91140-6

Edizione

[1st ed. 2018.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (VIII, 265 p. 33 illus.)

Collana

Chinese Literature and Culture in the World, , 2945-7262

Disciplina

809.5

Soggetti

Oriental literature

Motion pictures - Asia

Asian Literature

Asian Film and TV

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

1. China’s “New Wave Cinema” in the Era of Globalization -- 2. The Arrival of Post-Socialism: Silence, Sound and Fury -- 3. The Fate and Fantasy of China’s “New Poor” -- 4. The Taste and Tragedy of China’s “Middle Class” -- 5. Memoire of Socialism and the Chinese Enlightenment -- 6. Elitism of Populism? The Problematic of Imagining the Other -- 7. The Politics of Dignity and the Destiny of China’s New Wave Cinema.

Sommario/riassunto

Ideology and Utopia in China’s New Wave Cinema investigates the ways in which New Wave filmmakers represent China in this age of neoliberal reform. Analyzing this paradigm shift in independent cinema, this text explores the historicity of the cinematic form and its cultural-political visions. Through a close reading of the narrative strategy of key films in New Wave Cinema, Xiaoping Wang studies the movement’s impact on film, literature, culture and politics.