Western China on Screen
An Urban Exploration
Seiten
2023
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-7786-4 (ISBN)
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-7786-4 (ISBN)
Explores the relationship between cinema and the cities of Western China.
Explores the relationship between cinema and the cities of Western China
Bridges the gap where the cinematic landscape in China has long been dominated by developed metropolises
Breaks the cinematic stereotypes of the region characterised by rural and ethnographic images in films such as Yellow Earth (dir. Chen Kaige, 1984) and Old Well (dir. Wu Tianming, 1987) by adding the urban facets of western China
Explores four Han-dominated urban centres of western China (Chongqing, Chengdu, Xi'an and Lanzhou) represented in films investigating material spaces
Discusses class, gender, post-colonialism and the history of post-socialism
Exploring the stories, memories and experiences attached to places, Western China on Screen is the first monograph to explore the affinity between the cinema and cities of western China through a spatial perspective. Investigating how cinematic cities in western China appear as both spaces of national power and enclosed spaces of traditional cultural values, the book diversifies the glamourised image of the post-socialist, technocratic metropolises of Beijing and Shanghai, breaking the long-existing rural and ethnographical images of western China established by Chinese Fifth Generation directors. Through case studies of films such as Rainclouds Over Wushan (1996), Buddha Mountain (2010) and Weaving Girl (2010), the book establishes a new way of looking at western urban China on screen: from a space of production to a space of increasing consumption.
Explores the relationship between cinema and the cities of Western China
Bridges the gap where the cinematic landscape in China has long been dominated by developed metropolises
Breaks the cinematic stereotypes of the region characterised by rural and ethnographic images in films such as Yellow Earth (dir. Chen Kaige, 1984) and Old Well (dir. Wu Tianming, 1987) by adding the urban facets of western China
Explores four Han-dominated urban centres of western China (Chongqing, Chengdu, Xi'an and Lanzhou) represented in films investigating material spaces
Discusses class, gender, post-colonialism and the history of post-socialism
Exploring the stories, memories and experiences attached to places, Western China on Screen is the first monograph to explore the affinity between the cinema and cities of western China through a spatial perspective. Investigating how cinematic cities in western China appear as both spaces of national power and enclosed spaces of traditional cultural values, the book diversifies the glamourised image of the post-socialist, technocratic metropolises of Beijing and Shanghai, breaking the long-existing rural and ethnographical images of western China established by Chinese Fifth Generation directors. Through case studies of films such as Rainclouds Over Wushan (1996), Buddha Mountain (2010) and Weaving Girl (2010), the book establishes a new way of looking at western urban China on screen: from a space of production to a space of increasing consumption.
Hongyan Zou is a lecturer at the Foreign Language School of Sichuan University, China. She is the co-author of the book Chapter Chinese films and the sense of place: Beijing as 'Thirdspace' from In the Heat of the Sun to Mr. Six in the edited book Making Publics, Making Places (University of Adelaide Press, 2016). Her research focuses on the dynamic relationship between cinema and cities, Chinese urban cinema, Chinese minority films and Chinese Westerns.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 31.01.2023 |
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| Zusatzinfo | 40 B/W illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Edinburgh |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4744-7786-0 / 1474477860 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4744-7786-4 / 9781474477864 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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