Building a New China in Cinema: The Chinese Left-wing Cinema Movement, 1932-1937Rowman & Littlefield, 2002 - 279 páginas Building a New China in Cinema introduces English readers for the first time to one of the most exciting left-wing cinema traditions in the world. This unique book explores the history, ideology, and aesthetics of China's left-wing cinema movement, a quixotic film culture that was as political as commercial, as militant as sensationalist. Originating in the 1930s, it marked the first systematic intellectual involvement in Chinese cinema. In this era of turmoil and idealism, the movement's films were characterized by fantasies of heroism intertwined with the inescapable spell of impotency, thus exposing the contradictions of the filmmakers' underlying ideology as their political and artistic agendas alternately fought against or catered to the taste and viewing habits of a popular audience. Political cinema became a commercially successful industry, resulting in a film culture that has never been replicated. Drawing on detailed archival research, Pang demonstrates that this cinema movement was a product of the era's social, economic, and political discourses. The author offers a close analysis of many rarely seen films, richly illustrated with over eighty stills collected from the Beijing Film Archive. With its original conceptual approach and rich use of primary sources, this book will be of interest not only to scholars and fans of Chinese cinema but to those who study the relationship between cinema and modernity. |
Índice
The Merging of Histories | 19 |
The Leftwing Cinema Movement | 37 |
The Filmmakers and the Formation of a Collective Subjectivity | 71 |
The Role of Authorship in the Age of Nationalism | 73 |
Masculinity and Collectivism Romancing Politics | 91 |
Womens Stories Onscreen versus Offscreen | 113 |
Spectators and the Film Culture | 139 |
A Commercial Cinema or a Political Cinema? | 141 |
Engaging Realism | 197 |
Epilogue | 231 |
Chinese Leftwing Movies of the 1930s | 241 |
Chinese Films with the Longest FirstRun Screening Periods in Shanghai January 1932 to July 1937 | 245 |
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About the Author | |
A Shanghai Cinema or a Chinese Cinema? | 165 |
Otras ediciones - Ver todo
Building a New China in Cinema: The Chinese Left-Wing Cinema Movement, 1932-1937 Laikwan Pang Vista previa restringida - 2002 |
Building a New China in Cinema: The Chinese Left-wing Cinema Movement, 1932-1937 Laikwan Pang Vista de fragmentos - 2002 |
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