LEADER 04381nam 22005775 450 001 9910983392003321 005 20250224115250.0 010 $a9783031790669 010 $a3031790669 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-79066-9 035 $a(CKB)37704054100041 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC31919702 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL31919702 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-79066-9 035 $a(OCoLC)1503845226 035 $a(EXLCZ)9937704054100041 100 $a20250224d2025 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aCinematically Rendering Confucius $eChinese Film Philosophy and the Efficacious Screen-Play /$fby David H. Fleming 205 $a1st ed. 2025. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer Nature Switzerland :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2025. 215 $a1 online resource (320 pages) 311 08$a9783031790652 311 08$a3031790650 327 $aChapter 1: Propagandizing China?s Master ?Philosopher?: K?ng F?z? (1940) and K?ngz? (2010) -- Chapter 2: A Sage on the Global Stage: Or, the Chinese Kant Philosophise? -- Chapter 3: On Confucian Mediality and Ren-dering xiang-thought -- Chapter 4: ?Our Confucius?: Fei?s Artful Aspirational Screen-Play -- Chapter 5: The ?Second Coming? of Confucius: Or, Hu?s Hu in Huallywood -- Chapter 6: End Game: Confucius a Go Go -- Afterword: On Xi Jinping and the Synthetic Spectres of Marx and Confucius. 330 $aCinematically Rendering Confucius marks the first book-length enquiry into China?s first two big screen treatments of arguably the best-known and most influential thinker in world history: Confucius. By interweaving methods drawn from Film Studies, Comparative Philosophy, and Media Archaeology in response to broader calls to deepen and thicken the scope and purview of film philosophical enquiry, this trailblazing book grounds Fei Mu?s 1940 patriotic art film K?ng F?z? and Hu Mei's 2010 ?Huallywood? blockbuster K?ngz? as pre- and postsocialist examples of Chinese politico-philosophical filmmaking that straddle the PRC?s revolutionary Marxist socio-political experiment. After exploring the geopolitics surrounding why Confucius has been historically included and excluded from the European classification of ?philosopher? and addressing the difficulties that entering into ?Chinese Thought? presents to non-natives, the book?s first half undertakes a deep dive into the history of (re)mediating the Confucian image-imagination. Arguing that Confucius might be a form of film philosopher avant la lettre, we thereafter explore repetitions and differences surrounding the ever-changing treatment and representation of Confucius on-screen?concluding with a look at the latest AI-infused theory-film When Marx Met Confucius (2023). David H. Fleming is a Senior Lecturer in Film & Media at the University of Stirling. He is series editor of the Screens, Thinking, Worlds book series and author of The Squid Cinema From Hell: Kinoteuthis Infernalis and the Emergence of Chthulumedia (with William Brown 2020), Chinese Urban Shi-nema: Cinematicity, Society and Millennial China (with Simon Harrison, 2020), and Unbecoming Cinema: Unsettling Encounters with Ethical Event Films (2017). Forthcoming he has monographs entitled Infinite Ontologies of the Chthulustream (with William Brown) and Global Philosophers on Film: Conceptualising Aesthetics. David also increasingly researches using the video-essay form and has several practical film-philosophy works forthcoming, including his gonzo Hiber-nation: The Green Ray from Under the Skin with [In]Transition. 606 $aMotion pictures$xAesthetics 606 $aMotion pictures$zAsia 606 $aMotion pictures 606 $aFilm Philosophy 606 $aAsian Film and TV 606 $aFilm Theory 615 0$aMotion pictures$xAesthetics. 615 0$aMotion pictures 615 0$aMotion pictures. 615 14$aFilm Philosophy. 615 24$aAsian Film and TV. 615 24$aFilm Theory. 676 $a791.43684 700 $aFleming$b David H$0867474 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910983392003321 996 $aCinematically Rendering Confucius$94317049 997 $aUNINA