Feng Xiaogang's New Year Films

Industry, Regulation, Humour and Authorship
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-94-6372-195-0
Verlag: Amsterdam University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 18, 286 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Asian Visual Cultures

This book offers not only an in-depth study of Feng Xiaogang as a cinematic auteur but also a comprehensive and informative discussion of the industrial transformation of mainstream Chinese cinema under party-state regulation from the 1990s to the 2010s. It argues that Feng is not simply a commercially and artistically successful auteur but also a strategist who manages to achieve such success by his ability to negotiate governmental and market expectations. The negotiation facilitates his New Year filmmaking and dynamically affects the textual form of the resulting works. Feng engages in this textual construction, through which he delivers his own interpretations of the Chinese film industry’s state-led commercialisation, cultural policy, film regulation, and even political campaigns, establishes his authorship and restores his creative authority. Through this book, readers will comprehend the edges and limitations of auteur studies in order to understand the current cultural landscape of the film industry.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ai, Qi

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1. Event Film and New Year Expectation

Chapter 2. Industry Allegory and State-led Commercialisation

Chapter 3. Film Regulation and Creative Compliance

Chapter 4. Tiaokan Humour and Popular Culture

Chapter 5. Auteur Status and Commercial Aesthetics

Conclusion

Bibliography

Appendix

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Ai, Qi
Qi Ai is a Lecturer in the School of Journalism and Communication at Shandong Normal University in China. He was a post-doctoral fellow at Shandong University and the visiting scholar at University of Nottingham Ningbo. He holds a Ph.D. in Film and Television Studies from the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom.