Art, Politics, and Commerce in Chinese Cinema

by Zhu, Ying; Rosen, Stanley

• ISBN13: 9789622091764
• ISBN10: 9622091768
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-04-15
• Publisher: Hong Kong Univ Pr

Summary

Art, politics and commerce are intertwined everywhere, but in China the interplay is explicit, intimate and elemental, and nowhere more so than in the film industry. Understanding this interplay in the era of market reform and globalization is essential to understanding mainland Chinese cinema. This interdisciplinary book provides a comprehensive reappraisal of Chinese cinema, surveying the evolution of film production and consumption in mainland China as a product of shifting relations between art, politics, and commerce. Within these arenas, each of twelve chapters treats a particular history, development, genre, filmmaker or generation of filmmakers, adding up to a distinctively comprehensive rendering of Chinese cinema. The book illuminates China's changing state-society relations, the trajectory of marketization and globalization, the effects of China's stark historical shifts, Hollywood's role, the role of nationalism, and related themes of interest to scholars of Asian studies, cinema and media studies, political science, sociology, comparative literature, and Chinese language. Contributors include Ying Zhu, Seio Nakajima, Zhiwei Xiao, Shujen Wang, Paul Clark, Stephen Teo, John Lent, Ying Xu, Yingjin Zhang, Bruce Robinson, Liyan Qin, and Shuqin Cui.-- --- -Ying Zhu is associate professor in the Media Culture Department at the College of Staten Island, the City University of New York. --Stanley Rosen is director of the East Asian Studies Center and a professor of political science at the University of Southern California.-

Table of Contents

List of Tables	p. vii
Acknowledgements	p. ix
List of Contributors	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
Film Industry: Local and Global Markets	p. 15
The Evolution of Chinese Film as an Industry	p. 17
Chinese Cinema's International Market	p. 35
American Films in China Prior to 1950	p. 55
Piracy and the DVD/VCD Market: Contradictions and Paradoxes	p. 71
Film Politics: Genre and Reception	p. 85
The Triumph of Cinema: Chinese Film Culture from the 1960s to the 1980s	p. 87
The Martial Arts Film in Chinese Cinema: Historicism and the National	p. 99
Chinese Animation Film: From Experimentation to Digitalization	p. 111
Of Institutional Supervision and Individual Subjectivity: The History and Current State of Chinese Documentary	p. 127
Film Art: Style and Authorship	p. 143
The Cinematic Transition of the Fifth Generation Auteurs	p. 145
Transmedia Strategies of Appropriation and Visualization: The Case of Zhang Yimou's Adaptation of Novels in His Early Films	p. 163
Boundary Shifting: New Generation Filmmaking and Jia Zhangke's Films	p. 175
New Year Film as Chinese Blockbuster: From Feng Xiaogang's Contemporary Urban Comedy to Zhang Yimou's Period Drama	p. 195
Notes	p. 209
Filmography	p. 249
Bibliography	p. 261
Index	p. 285
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