Ecology and Chinese-Language Cinema
Title | Ecology and Chinese-Language Cinema PDF eBook |
Author | Sheldon H. Lu |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 442 |
Release | 2019-10-10 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1000697878 |
This edited collection explores new developments in the burgeoning field of Chinese ecocinema, examining a variety of works from local productions to global market films, spanning the Maoist era to the present. The ten chapters examine films with ecological significance in mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, including documentaries, feature films, blockbusters and independent productions. Covering not only well-known works, such as Under the Dome, Wolf Totem, Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracts, and Mermaid, this book also provides analysis of less well-known but critically important works, such as Anchorage Prohibited, Luzon, and Three Flower/Tri-Color. The unique perspectives this book provides, along with the comprehensive engagement with existing Chinese and English scholarship, not only extend the scope of the growing field of ecocinematic studies, but also seeks to reform the means through which Chinese-language eco-films are understood in the years to come. Ecology and Chinese-Language Ecocinema will be of huge interest to students and scholars in the fields of Chinese cinema, environmental studies, media and communication studies.
Chinese Ecocinema
Title | Chinese Ecocinema PDF eBook |
Author | Sheldon H. Lu |
Publisher | Hong Kong University Press |
Total Pages | 384 |
Release | 2009-12-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9622090869 |
This anthology is a book-length study of China's ecosystem through the lens of cinema. Proposing 'ecocinema' as a new critical framework, the volume collectively investigates a wide range of urgent topics in today's world.
Transnational Chinese Cinemas
Title | Transnational Chinese Cinemas PDF eBook |
Author | Sheldon H. Lu |
Publisher | University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | 438 |
Release | 1997-10-01 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 9780824818456 |
Zhang Yimou's first film, Red Sorghum, took the Golden Bear Award in 1988 at the Berlin International Film Festival. Since then Chinese films have continued to arrest worldwide attention and capture major film awards, winning an international following that continues to grow. Transnational Chinese Cinemas spans nearly the entire length of twentieth-century Chinese film history. The volume traces the evolution of Chinese national cinema, and demonstrates that gender identity has been central to its formation. Femininity, masculinity and sexuality have been an integral part of the filmic discourses of modernity, nationhood, and history. This volume represents the most comprehensive, wide-ranging, and up-to-date study of China's major cinematic traditions. It is an indispensable source book for modern Chinese and Asian history, politics, literature, and culture.
Youth Culture in Chinese Language Film
Title | Youth Culture in Chinese Language Film PDF eBook |
Author | Xuelin Zhou |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 408 |
Release | 2016-08-05 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1317194101 |
This book explores the vigorous film cultures of mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong from the perspective of youth culture. The book relates this important topic to the wider social, cultural, and institutional context, and discusses the relationship between the films and the changes that today are transforming each society. Among the areas explored are the differences between the three film industries, their creation of new types of screen hero and heroine, and their conflicts with traditional Chinese attitudes such as respect for age. The many films discussed provide fresh perspectives on the ways in which young people are coping with gender, sexuality, class, coming of age, the pressures of education, and major social shifts such as rural to urban migration. They show young adults in each society striving to construct new value systems for a complex, rapidly changing environment.
Chinese Movie Magazines
Title | Chinese Movie Magazines PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Fonoroff |
Publisher | University of California Press |
Total Pages | 11 |
Release | 2018-09-25 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0520300483 |
Showcasing an exotic, eclectic, and rare array of covers from more than five hundred movie publications from a glamorous bygone age, Chinese Movie Magazines sheds fresh light on China’s film industry during a transformative period of its history. Expertly curated by collector and Chinese cinema specialist Paul Fonoroff, this volume provides insightful commentary relating the magazines to the times in which they were created, embracing everything from cinematic trends to politics and world events, along with gossip, fashion, and pop culture. The cover designs reflected the diverse contents of the publications, ranging from sophisticated Art Deco drawings by acclaimed artists to glamorous photos of top Chinese and Hollywood celebrities, including Ruan Lingyu, Butterfly Wu, Ingrid Bergman, and Shirley Temple. Organized thematically within a chronological structure, this visually extraordinary volume includes many rare illustrations from the Paul Kendel Fonoroff Collection in Berkeley’s C.V. Starr East Asian Library, the largest collection of Eastern movie memorabilia outside China.
Screening Nature
Title | Screening Nature PDF eBook |
Author | Anat Pick |
Publisher | Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | 303 |
Release | 2013-11-01 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1782382275 |
Environmentalism and ecology are areas of rapid growth in academia and society at large. Screening Nature is the first comprehensive work that groups together the wide range of concerns in the field of cinema and the environment, and what could be termed “posthuman cinema.” It comprises key readings that highlight the centrality of nature and nonhuman animals to the cinematic medium, and to the language and institution of film. The book offers a fresh and timely intervention into contemporary film theory through a focus on the nonhuman environment as principal register in many filmic texts. Screening Nature offers an extensive resource for teachers, undergraduate students, and more advanced scholars on the intersections between the natural world and the worlds of film. It emphasizes the cross-cultural and geographically diverse relevance of the topic of cinema ecology.
Adapted for the Screen
Title | Adapted for the Screen PDF eBook |
Author | Hsiu-Chuang Deppman |
Publisher | University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | 258 |
Release | 2010-04-30 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 0824833732 |
Hsiu-Chang Deppman puts landmark contemporary Chinese films in the context of their literary origins & explores how the best Chinese directors adapt fictional narratives & styles for film.