03921nam 2200685 a 450 991045779660332120200520144314.01-4422-1180-697866133622611-283-36226-0(CKB)2550000000074374(EBL)817164(OCoLC)768082539(SSID)ssj0000906474(PQKBManifestationID)12422811(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000906474(PQKBWorkID)10932020(PQKB)10382806(SSID)ssj0000554488(PQKBManifestationID)12215538(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000554488(PQKBWorkID)10514359(PQKB)10739456(MiAaPQ)EBC817164(Au-PeEL)EBL817164(CaPaEBR)ebr10519538(CaONFJC)MIL336226(EXLCZ)99255000000007437420111024d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrChina on film[electronic resource] a century of exploration, confrontation, and controversy /Paul G. PickowiczLanham Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.20121 online resource (377 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-4422-1178-4 1-4422-1179-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction: the sorrows and joys of Chinese filmmaking: political and personal contexts -- Shanghai twenties: early Chinese cinematic explorations of the modern marriage -- The theme of spiritual pollution in Chinese films of the 1930s -- Melodramatic representation and the "May fourth" tradition of Chinese filmmaking -- Never-ending controversies: the case of remorse in Shanghai and occupation-era Chinese filmmaking -- Victory as defeat: postwar visualizations of China's war of resistance -- Acting like revolutionaries: Shi Hui, The Wenhua Studio, and private-sector filmmaking, 1949-1952 -- Zheng Junli, complicity, and the cultural history of socialist China, 1949-1976 -- The limits of thaw: Chinese cinema in the early 1960s -- Popular cinema and political thought in early Post-Mao China: reflections on official pronouncements, film, and the film audience -- On the eve of Tiananmen: Huang Jianxin and the notion of postsocialism -- Velvet prison and the political economy of Chinese filmmaking in the late 1980s and early 1990s -- Social and political dynamics of underground filmmaking in early twenty-first century China.Leading scholar Paul G. Pickowicz traces the dynamic history of Chinese filmmaking and its stunning development decade-by-decade since the 1920s. During the last one hundred years, China has been embroiled in a seemingly unending series of wars, revolutions, and jarring social transformations. Despite daunting censorship obstacles, Chinese filmmakers have found ingenious ways of taking political stands and weighing in-for better or worse-on the most explosive social, cultural, and economic issues of the day. Exploring the often gut-wrenching controversies generated by their wMotion picture industryChinaHistory20th centuryMotion picturesPolitical aspectsChinaHistory20th centuryMotion picturesSocial aspectsChinaHistory20th centuryChinaIn motion picturesElectronic books.Motion picture industryHistoryMotion picturesPolitical aspectsHistoryMotion picturesSocial aspectsHistory791.43095109/04Pickowicz Paul960661MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910457796603321China on film2458527UNINA