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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458701703321

Autore

Voci Paola

Titolo

China on video : smaller-screen realities / / Paola Voci

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2010

ISBN

1-136-96001-5

1-136-96002-3

1-282-62925-5

9786612629259

0-203-85010-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (286 p.)

Collana

Asia's transformations

Disciplina

791.43/6110951

Soggetti

Experimental films - China - History and criticism

Documentary films - China - History and criticism

Motion pictures - Social aspects - China

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Note on transliteration; 1 Smaller-screen realities; 2 Building bridges: From silver screens to smaller-screen realities; 3 Animations; 4 Portable movies: Cellflix; 5 Egao movies: Wicked fun, participatory culture, and enlightenment; 6 Light political documentaries; 7 Lightened (up) subaltern smaller screens; 8 Smaller screens: Film spaces and theories; 9 An afterword on lightness: Quasi-conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Selected movies; Selected websites; Index

Sommario/riassunto

China On Video is the first in-depth study that examines smaller-screen realities and the important role they play not only in the fast-changing Chinese mediascape, but also more broadly in the practice of experimental and non-mainstream cinema. At the crossroads of several disciplines-film, media, new media, media anthropology, visual arts, contemporary China area studies, and cultural studies--this book reveals the existence of a creative, humorous, but also socially and



politically critical ""China on video"", which locates itself outside of the intellectual discourse surroundin