LEADER 03921nam 2200685 a 450 001 9910457796603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-4422-1180-6 010 $a9786613362261 010 $a1-283-36226-0 035 $a(CKB)2550000000074374 035 $a(EBL)817164 035 $a(OCoLC)768082539 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000906474 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12422811 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000906474 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10932020 035 $a(PQKB)10382806 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000554488 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12215538 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000554488 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10514359 035 $a(PQKB)10739456 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC817164 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL817164 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10519538 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL336226 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000074374 100 $a20111024d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aChina on film$b[electronic resource] $ea century of exploration, confrontation, and controversy /$fPaul G. Pickowicz 210 $aLanham $cRowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (377 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-4422-1178-4 311 $a1-4422-1179-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction: 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. 330 $aLeading 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 w 606 $aMotion picture industry$zChina$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aMotion pictures$xPolitical aspects$zChina$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aMotion pictures$xSocial aspects$zChina$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aChina$xIn motion pictures 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aMotion picture industry$xHistory 615 0$aMotion pictures$xPolitical aspects$xHistory 615 0$aMotion pictures$xSocial aspects$xHistory 676 $a791.43095109/04 700 $aPickowicz$b Paul$0960661 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910457796603321 996 $aChina on film$92458527 997 $aUNINA