Chinese Cinema during the Era of Reform : The Ingenuity of the System
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“Well informed by current cultural theories in the West, Zhu is able to share her insights into China's film industry during the past two decades in a way that is interesting not only to film scholars and specialists but also those generalists looking for ways to engage modern Chinese culture of the last century....Having been aquainted with the interlocking relationships among film economy, film production, film art, film criticism, and film history, the reader is left to marvel at the bewildering mosaic of postmodernismm in its truest and most dynamic forms.”–
Book Description
The political economy and culture of Chinese cinema during the era of China's prolonged economic reform has not until now been examined in detail. Ying Zhu's new and comprehensive study examines the institutional as well as the stylistic transitions of Chinese cinema from pedagogy to art to commerce, focusing on the key film reform measures as well as the metamorphosis of Chinese Fifth Generation films from art film narration-as in Chen Kaige's 1984 Yellow Earth-to post-New-Wave classical film narration-as in the same director's 1993 Farewell, My Concubine. Zhu's work reconciles the stylistic, cultural, and economic dimensions of the nation's cinematic output, also providing the first systematic institutional analysis of an industry in a state of constant flux.
Chinese Cinema during the Era of Reform : The Ingenuity of the System
Chinese Cinema during the Era of Reform : The Ingenuity of the System,Ying Zhu,Praeger Publishers,0275979598,China,Cinema/Film: Book,Communication,Film & Video - General,History,Motion picture industry,Motion pictures,Performing Arts,Technology & Industrial Arts,Telecommunications,Language Arts & Disciplines / Communication
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