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Titolo |
Chinese ecocinema [[electronic resource] ] : in the age of environmental challenge / / edited by Sheldon Lu and Jiayan Mi |
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Hong Kong, : Hong Kong University Press |
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London, : Eurospan [distributor], 2009 |
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ISBN |
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988-220-672-7 |
1-282-75028-3 |
9786612750281 |
988-220-537-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (384 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Motion pictures - China - History |
Environmentalism in motion pictures |
Environmentalism - China |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Note generali |
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"This book originated from a panel on "New Chinese Ecocinema and Ethics of Environmental Imagination" that we organized for the annual convention of the Association for Asian Studies in Boston, March 2007"--P. [ix]. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references, filmography, and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Hydro-politics : water, river, and national trauma. Framing ambient Unheimlich : ecoggedon, ecological unconscious, and water pathology in new Chinese cinema / Jiayan Mi ; Gorgeous Three Gorges at last sight : cinematic remembrance and the dialectic of modernization / Sheldon H. Lu ; Submerged ecology and depth psychology in Wushan yunyu : aesthetic insight into national development / Nick Kaldis ; Floating consciousness : the cinematic confluence of ecological aesthetics in Suzhou River / Andrew Hageman -- Eco-aesthetics, heteroscape, and manufactured landscape. The idea-image : conceptualizing landscape in recent martial arts movies / Mary Farquhar ; Façades : the new Beijing and the unsettled ecology of Jia Zhangke's The world / Jerome Silbergeld ; Ruins and grassroots : Jia Zhangke's cinematic discontents in the age of globalization / Hongbing |
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Zhang -- Urban space in production and disappearance. Of humans and nature in documentary : the logic of capital in West of the tracks and Blind shaft / Ban Wang ; Toward a Hong Kong ecocinema : the dis-appearance of "nature" in three films by Fruit Chan / Chris Tong ; A city of disappearance : trauma, displacement, and spectral cityscape in contemporary Chinese cinema / Jing Nie -- Bioethics, non-anthropocentrism, and green sovereignty. In the face of developmental ruins : place attachment and its ethical claims / Xinmin Liu ; Ning Hao's Incense : a curious tale of earthly Buddhism / Xiaoping Lin ; Putting back the animals : woman-animal meme in contemporary Taiwanese ecofeminist imagination / Chia-ju Chang ; "Reconstructing the god-fearing community" : filming Tibet in the twenty-first century / Donghui He. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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In coming decades, film will be one of the primary ways in which China adopts and expands ecological consciousness. This anthology is the first book-length study of China's ecosystem through the lens of cinema, in a historic moment of unparalleled environmental crises and destruction. Proposing ""ecocinema"" as a new critical framework, the volume collectively investigates a wide range of urgent topics in today's world: Chinese and Western epistemes of nature and humanity; socialist modernization amid capitalist globalization; shifting configurations of space, locale, cityscape, and natural la |
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