China on film : a century of exploration, confrontation, and controversy / / Paul G. Pickowicz
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| Autore: |
Pickowicz Paul
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| Titolo: |
China on film : a century of exploration, confrontation, and controversy / / Paul G. Pickowicz
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| Pubblicazione: | Lanham : , : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, , 2011 |
| New York : , : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), , 2025 | |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (377 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 791.43095109/04 |
| 791.4309510904 | |
| Soggetto topico: | Motion picture industry - China - History - 20th century |
| Motion pictures - Political aspects - China - History - 20th century | |
| Motion pictures - Social aspects - China - History - 20th century | |
| ART - Film & Video | |
| Film theory & criticism | |
| Motion picture industry | |
| Motion pictures | |
| Motion pictures - Political aspects | |
| Motion pictures - Social aspects | |
| PERFORMING ARTS - Film & Video - Reference | |
| Soggetto geografico: | China In motion pictures |
| China | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | History |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 w |
| Titolo autorizzato: | China on film |
| ISBN: | 979-88-8181-561-5 |
| 1-4422-1180-6 | |
| 9786613362261 | |
| 1-283-36226-0 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910956373303321 |
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