China on video : smaller-screen realities / / Paola Voci

• Autore: Voci Paola
• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Routledge, , 2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (286 p.)
• Disciplina: 791.43/6110951
• Soggetto topico: Experimental films - China - History and criticism; Documentary films - China - History and criticism; Motion pictures - Social aspects - China
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Note on transliteration; 1 Smaller-screen realities; 2 Building bridges: From silver screens to smaller-screen realities; 3 Animations; 4 Portable movies: Cellflix; 5 Egao movies: Wicked fun, participatory culture, and enlightenment; 6 Light political documentaries; 7 Lightened (up) subaltern smaller screens; 8 Smaller screens: Film spaces and theories; 9 An afterword on lightness: Quasi-conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Selected movies; Selected websites; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: China On Video is the first in-depth study that examines smaller-screen realities and the important role they play not only in the fast-changing Chinese mediascape, but also more broadly in the practice of experimental and non-mainstream cinema. At the crossroads of several disciplines-film, media, new media, media anthropology, visual arts, contemporary China area studies, and cultural studies--this book reveals the existence of a creative, humorous, but also socially and politically critical ""China on video"", which locates itself outside of the intellectual discourse surroundin
• Titolo autorizzato: China on video
• ISBN: 1-136-96001-5; 1-136-96002-3; 1-282-62925-5; 9786612629259; 0-203-85010-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910791121603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Asia's transformations.