Description |
x, 365 p. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
Introduction: the sorrows and joys of Chinese filmmaking: political and personal contexts -- Shanghai twenties: early Chinese cinematic explorations of the modern marriage -- The theme of spiritual pollution in Chinese films of the 1930s -- Melodramatic representation and the "May fourth" tradition of Chinese filmmaking -- Never-ending controversies: the case of remorse in Shanghai and occupation-era Chinese filmmaking -- Victory as defeat: postwar visualizations of China's war of resistance -- Acting like revolutionaries: Shi Hui, The Wenhua Studio, and private-sector filmmaking, 1949-1952 -- Zheng Junli, complicity, and the cultural history of socialist China, 1949-1976 -- The limits of thaw: Chinese cinema in the early 1960s -- Popular cinema and political thought in early Post-Mao China: reflections on official pronouncements, film, and the film audience -- On the eve of Tiananmen: Huang Jianxin and the notion of postsocialism -- Velvet prison and the political economy of Chinese filmmaking in the late 1980s and early 1990s -- Social and political dynamics of underground filmmaking in early twenty-first century China. |
Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
Subject |
Motion picture industry -- China -- History -- 20th century.
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Motion pictures -- Political aspects -- China -- History -- 20th century.
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Motion pictures -- Social aspects -- China -- History -- 20th century.
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China -- In motion pictures.
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Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Added Author |
ProQuest (Firm)
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ISBN |
9781442211780 (cloth alk. paper) |
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9781442211797 |
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9781442211803 (electronic bk.) |
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9781442211803 (electronic bk.) |
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