Revolutionary Becomings - Documentary Media in Twentieth-Century China

Revolutionary upheavals characterized China's twentieth century. Ying Qian studies documentary film as an "eventful medium" deeply embedded in these upheavals and as a prism to investigate the entwined histories of media and China's revolutionary movements.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Emergence: Colonial War, Nationalist Revolution, and Documentary’s Beginnings
2. Bombs and Seafarings: Documentaries Hard and Soft
3. Winning Realities: Wartime Propaganda and Solidarity
4. When Taylorism Met Revolutionary Romanticism: Great Leap Temporalities
5. The Uncertainty of Political Knowledge: Documentary in Crisis
6. Rehabilitation: Documentary in the Post-Mao Decade
Epilogue: Notes on Chinese Independent Documentary
Notes
Index

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Ying Qian is an associate professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University.

Zusammenfassung

Revolutionary upheavals characterized China’s twentieth century. Ying Qian studies documentary film as an “eventful medium” deeply embedded in these upheavals and as a prism to investigate the entwined histories of media and China’s revolutionary movements.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Ying Qian
• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 26.01.2024
• EAN: 9780231204460
• ISBN: 978-0-231-20446-0
• Seiten: 328
• Serie: Investigating Visible Evidence: New Challenges for Documentary
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Kunst > Theater, Ballett; China, 20th Century, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, HISTORY / Asia / China, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / Genres / Documentary, Documentary films, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General, performing arts; history