Zhang The Urban Generation

Chinese Cinema and Society at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century
1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9000-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 464 Seiten

An anthology that explores film works by the "urban generation,"--filmmakers who operate outside of "mainstream" (officially sanctioned) Chinese cinema -- whose impact has been enormous.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zhang, Zhen

Weitere Mitwirkende

McGrath, Jason

Berry, Chris

Lu, Sheldon H.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction: Bearing Witness: Chinese Urban Cinema in the Era of “Transformation” (Zhuanxing) / Zhang Zhen 1

I. Ideology, Film Practice, and the Market

Rebel without a Cause? China’s New Urban Generation and Postsocialist Filmmaking / Yingjin Zhang 49

The Independent Cinema of Jia Zhangke: From Postsocialist Realism to a Transnational Aesthetic / Jason McGrath 81

Getting Real: Chinese Documentary, Chinese Postsocialism / Chris Berry 115

II. The Politics and Poetics of Urban Space

Tear down the City: Reconstructing Urban Space in Contemporary Chinese Popular Cinema and Avant-Garde Art / Sheldon H. Lu 137

Tracing the City’s Scars: Demolition and the Limits of the Documentary Impulse in the New Urban Cinema / Yomi Braester 161

Scaling the Skyscraper: Images of Cosmopolitan Consumption in Street Angel (1937) and Beautiful New World (1998) / Augusta Palmer 181

Whither the Walker Goes: Spatial Practices and Negative Poetics in 1990s Chinese Urban Cinema / Linda Chiu-Han Lai 205

III. The Production of Desire and Identities

Ning Ying’s Beijing Trilogy: Cinematic Configurations of Age, Class, and Sexuality / Shuqin Cui 241

Zhang Yuan’s Imaginary Cities and the Theatricalization of the Chinese “Bastards” / Bérénice Reynaud 264

Mr. Zhao On and Off the Screen: Male Desire and Its Discontent / Xueping Zhong 295

Maintaining Law and Order in the City: New Tales of the People’s Police / Yaohua Shi 316

Urban Dreamscape, Phantom Sisters, and the Identity of an Emergent Art Cinema / Zhang Zhen 344

Appendix: The Urban Generation Filmmakers (compiled by Charles Leary) 389

Bibliography 411

Contributors 429

Index 431

Über Autor(innen)

Zhang Zhen is Associate Professor of Cinema Studies at New York University. She is the author of An Amorous History of the Silver Screen: Shanghai Cinema, 1896–1937.