Cinema, Space, and Polylocality in a Globalizing China

by Zhang, Yingjin

• ISBN13: 9780824834081
• ISBN10: 0824834089
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-03-30
• Publisher: Univ of Hawaii Pr

Summary

In This Milestone Work, Prominent China film scholar Yingjin Zhang proposes "polylocality" as a new conceptual framework for investigating the shifting spaces of contemporary Chinese cinema in the age of globalization. Questioning the national cinema paradigm, Zhang calls for comparative studies of underdeveloped areas beyond the imperative of transnationalism.

Author Biography

Yingjin Zhang is director of the Chinese Studies Program and professor of Chinese comparative literature, and cultural studies at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of seven academic books in English.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction: Cinema, Space, Polylocality	p. 1
Space of Scholarship: Trans/National and Comparative Studies	p. 16
Space of Production: Postsocialist Filmmaking	p. 42
Space of Polylocality: Remapping the City	p. 73
Space of Subjectivity: Independent Documentary	p. 103
Space of Performance: Media and Mediation	p. 138
Conclusion: Progress, Problems, Prospects	p. 170
Notes	p. 187
Filmography, Videography	p. 219
Bibliography	p. 231
Index	p. 251
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