China's iGeneration - Cinema and Moving Image Culture for the Twenty-First Century

Zusatztext This volume of essays on the culture of the moving image in contemporary China strikes bold new ground in how we conceptualise "cinema", both in China and elsewhere. Moving away from notions of film dominated by the box office and the big screen, these consistently fascinating essays – written by both established and emerging scholars – argue collectively for what they call a "cinema of dispersion": an understanding of film for the digital epoch which acknowledges that cinematic culture is as mobile and mutable as the people who make and watch it. Informationen zum Autor Matthew D. Johnson is Assistant Professor of East Asian History at Grinnell College, US. As a doctoral student at the University of California, San Diego he conducted one of the first oral histories of China's early socialist film industry. His scholarly writing focuses on the history of the motion picture in China; documentary cinema and practice; public cultural service and security; and U.S.-China transnational relations. He is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Chinese Cinemas. Keith B. Wagner is an Assistant Professor of Film Studies and Social Theory in the Graduate School of Film and Digital Media at Hongik University in Seoul, South Korea. Before moving to Asia, he completed his M.Phil degree at the University of Cambridge and his PhD at King’s College London. He is the co-editor of Neoliberalism and Global Cinema: Capital, Culture and Marxist Critique (2011) and is completing a manuscript based on his dissertation entitled Living with Uncertainty: Precarious Labor in Global Cinema . Kiki Tianqi Yu is a filmmaker and Lecturer in Film at the University of the West of Scotland, UK. She publishes on first person documentary, Chinese documentary, camera activism, amateur cinema culture, and cinematic memory in Studies in Documentary Film, Journal of Chinese Cinemas , and Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art , among others. Yu is the author of ‘My’ Self On Camera: First Person Documentary Practice in 21st century China (2018). As a filmmaker, her film works include Photographing Shenzhen (2007), Memory of Home (2009) and the recent feature length documentary film China’s van Gogh (2016). Luke Vulpiani is a PhD candidate at King’s College London under the supervision of Dr Viktor Fan. He has a 1st Class BA Degree in Film Studies from The University of Warwick and a MA in Chinese Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. His research focuses on aesthetic theory, Chinese film and the relationship between film and philosophy, psychoanalysis and politics. This innovative collection of essays on twenty-first century Chinese cinema and moving image culture features contributions from an international community of scholars, critics, and practitioners. Taken together, their perspectives make a compelling case that the past decade has witnessed a radical transformation of conventional notions of cinema. Following China's accession to the WTO in 2001, personal and collective experiences of changing social conditions have added new dimensions to the increasingly diverse Sinophone media landscape, and provided a novel complement to the existing edifice of blockbusters, documentaries, and auteur culture. The numerous 'iGeneration' productions and practices examined in this volume include 3D and IMAX films, experimental documentaries, animation, visual aides-memoires, and works of pirated pastiche. Together, they bear witness to the emergence of a new Chinese cinema characterized by digital and, trans-media representational strategies, the blurring of private/public distinctions, and dynamic reinterpretations of the very notion of 'cinema' itself. Vorwort Offers a new interpretation of how both 'cinema' and 'generation' are terms that have been redefined by iGeneration filmm...

About the author

Matthew D. Johnson is Assistant Professor of East Asian History at Grinnell College, US. As a doctoral student he conducted one of the first oral histories of China's early socialist film industry, and is currently working on a book-length project titled The Most Important Art: Motion Pictures as Political Communication in Maoist China. He has written on mass media, documentary cinema, and U.S.-China transnational relations, and is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Chinese Cinemas.Keith B. Wagner is an Assistant Professor of Film Studies at Hongik University in Seoul, South Korea. He holds an M.Phil degree from the University of Cambridge and previously taught at London South Bank University and the University of Rhode Island. He is the co-editor (with Jyotsna Kapur) of Neoliberalism and Global Cinema: Capital, Culture and Marxist Critique (2011) and is now co-editing a special edition journal on Hollywood and the Financial Crisis.Kiki Tianqi Yu is a filmmaker and Lecturer in Film at the University of the West of Scotland, UK. She publishes on first person documentary, Chinese documentary, camera activism, amateur cinema culture, and cinematic memory in Studies in Documentary Film, Journal of Chinese Cinemas, and Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, among others. Yu is the author of ‘My’ Self On Camera: First Person Documentary Practice in 21st century China (2018). As a filmmaker, her film works include Photographing Shenzhen (2007), Memory of Home (2009) and the recent feature length documentary film China’s van Gogh (2016). Luke Vulpiani is a PhD candidate at King’s College London under the supervision of Professor Richard Dyer.

Product details

• Authors: Matthew D Johnson, Matthew D. Vulpiani Johnson, Keith B Wagner, Kiki Ti Yu
• Assisted by: Matthew D. Johnson (Editor), Luke Vulpiani (Editor), Keith B. Wagner (Editor), Kiki Tianqi Yu (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.07.2014
• EAN: 9781623565954
• ISBN: 978-1-62356-595-4
• No. of pages: 368
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous