04439nam 2200649 a 450 991078559950332120200520144314.0988-220-672-71-282-75028-39786612750281988-220-537-2(CKB)2670000000065918(EBL)677307(OCoLC)707092915(SSID)ssj0000434399(PQKBManifestationID)11293884(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000434399(PQKBWorkID)10403938(PQKB)10345062(StDuBDS)EDZ0000035468(MdBmJHUP)muse7129(Au-PeEL)EBL677307(CaPaEBR)ebr10453696(CaONFJC)MIL275028(MiAaPQ)EBC677307(EXLCZ)99267000000006591820110127d2009 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrChinese ecocinema[electronic resource] in the age of environmental challenge /edited by Sheldon Lu and Jiayan MiHong Kong Hong Kong University Press ;London Eurospan [distributor]20091 online resource (384 p.)"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].962-209-086-9 962-209-085-0 Includes bibliographical references, filmography, and index.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 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.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 laMotion picturesChinaHistoryEnvironmentalism in motion picturesEnvironmentalismChinaMotion picturesHistory.Environmentalism in motion pictures.Environmentalism791.43095109/04Lu Sheldon H1536270Mi Jiayan1536271MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910785599503321Chinese ecocinema3784950UNINA