Chinese Cinema During The Era Of Reform

Informationen zum Autor Ying Zhu Klappentext The political economy and culture of Chinese cinema during the era of China's prolonged economic reform has not until now been examined in detail. Ying Zhu's new and comprehensive study examines the institutional as well as the stylistic transitions of Chinese cinema from pedagogy to art to commerce, focusing on the key film reform measures as well as the metamorphosis of Chinese Fifth Generation films from art film narration-as in Chen Kaige's 1984 Yellow Earth -to post-New-Wave classical film narration-as in the same director's 1993 Farewell, My Concubine . Zhu's work reconciles the stylistic, cultural, and economic dimensions of the nation's cinematic output, also providing the first systematic institutional analysis of an industry in a state of constant flux. Zusammenfassung Offers an insider's account of the rise and fall of Chinese cinema's art and entertainment industry! including its transition to commercialization. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword Preface Chinese Cinema: A Culture and and Economy in Disarray Cinematic Modernization and Chinese Cinems"s Firt Art Wave Economic Reform and Populist Cinematic Revival From New Wave to Post-New Wave Post-Wave: "It's the Economy, Stupid" Shadowplay: Early Chinese Cinema in the Shadow of Hollywood Chinese Cinema: A Cultural or and Economic Issue? Index

Product details

• Authors: Zhu Ying, Ying Zhu
• Publisher: Praeger Publications
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2003
• EAN: 9780275979591
• ISBN: 978-0-275-97959-1
• Dimensions: 170 mm x 2445 mm x 22 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Electronics, electrical engineering, communications engineering; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries; Films, cinema, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General, Popular Culture: Film