From Underground to Independent Alternative Film Culture in Contemporary China

by Pickowicz, Paul G.; Zhang, Yingjin

• ISBN13: 9780742554375
• ISBN10: 0742554376
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-08-11
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

This groundbreaking book presents a critical introduction to the cultural and political dimensions of contemporary Chinese cinema. Exploring the complex and shifting world of Chinese underground and independent film, leading Western and Chinese scholars trace the changing dynamics of Chinese film culture since the early 1990s as it moves away from underground and toward independence in the new century. With its fresh and knowledgeable analysis of Chinese underground and independent filmmaking, this book will be essential reading for all those interested in a society caught between socialism and global currents.

Author Biography

Paul G. Pickowicz is professor of history at the University of California, San Diego. Yingjin Zhang is professor of literature at the University of California, San Diego.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Social and Political Dynamics of Underground Filmmaking in China	p. 1
My Camera Doesn't Lie? Truth, Subjectivity, and Audience in Chinese Independent Film and Video	p. 23
"A Scene beyond Our Line of Sight": Wu Wenguang and New Documentary Cinema's Politics of Independence	p. 47
"Every Man a Star": The Ambivalent Cult of Amateur Art in New Chinese Documentaries	p. 77
Independently Chinese: Duan Jinchuan, Jiang Yue, and Chinese Documentary	p. 109
Trapped Freedom and Localized Globalism	p. 123
Chinese Underground Films: Critical Views from China	p. 143
Film Clubs in Beijing: The Cultural Consumption of Chinese Independent Films	p. 161
List of Films Screened at the First Independent Film Festival, Organized by the Film Movement Society	p. 189
List of Films Screened by Culture Salon	p. 194
List of Films Screened by Formula 3	p. 198
List of Films Screened by Studio Z	p. 203
Appendix	p. 209
Filmography	p. 245
Bibliography	p. 249
Internet Resources	p. 259
Index	p. 261
About the Contributors	p. 267
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