Independent Chinese Documentary - Alternative Visions, Alternative Publics

Informationen zum Autor Dan Edwards has published over 70 articles on film and media in Australian newspapers and magazines. He worked as a magazine writer in Beijing, China from 2007-11, before completing a PhD in film and television at Monash University in 2014. Prior to living in China he worked for the Communications Branch of the Australian Film Commission and was the editor of the OnScreen section of RealTime arts magazine. He now lives in Melbourne, Australia, where he teaches film at the University of Melbourne and Monash University. Klappentext EDINBURGH STUDIES IN EAST ASIAN FILM Series Editor: Margaret Hillenbrand This series explores all aspects of East Asian cinema, encompassing its major genres, its leading auteurs, links between regional cinematic traditions and the growth of transnational cinema. Since the turn of the twenty-first century there has been an explosion in Chinese independent documentary filmmaking. But how are we to understand this vibrant burst of activity? Are these films brave expressions of dissidence, or are they part of a broader, more complex push to expand the terms of public discourse in the People's Republic? Considering the relationship between independent documentaries and China's official film and television sectors, this timely study explores the ways in which independent films probe, question and challenge the dominant ideas and narratives circulating in the state-sanctioned public sphere. Based on detailed interviews with Chinese documentary filmmakers that are rarely available in English, the author draws on his own insights as a journalist working in Beijing to provide a detailed analysis of key contemporary documentaries. This groundbreaking book reveals a sustained attempt to forge an alternative public sphere, where the views and experiences of petitioners, AIDS sufferers, dispossessed farmers and the victims of Mao's repression can be publicly aired for a small but steadily growing public. Dan Edwards is a lecturer at the University of Melbourne and Monash University, Melbourne, Australia Zusammenfassung Analyses how independent documentaries are forging a new public sphere in today's China. This book offers a detailed account of one of the world's active and challenging contemporary documentary sectors. It draws extensively on first hand interviews with filmmakers. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsA Note on TerminologyIntroductionDefining Independence in a Chinese ContextEngineering Hegemony in Today's ChinaChina's Official Public Sphere as an Arena of Hegemonic InfluenceWhat Distinguishes Independent Documentaries from State-sanctioned Representations?Chapter One: From Underground Practice to Alternative Public SphereThe New Documentary Movement as an Underground Filmmaking PracticeIndependent Documentary Culture in the Digital EraChapter Two: A Public of Viewer-producersU-thèque: Screening Group, Training Centre and Production CollectiveParticipatory Documentary Practice: Meishi StreetParticipatory Documentary as Rural ReconstructionChapter Three: Remembering the Past, Reclaiming HistoryThe Chinese Amnesia and Official Historical RepresentationsReclaiming the Historical Subject: Searching for Lin Zhao's SoulReclaiming the Public Memorial: Though I Am GoneA Growing Body of Historical TestimonyChapter Four: The Right to be Public and a Public with RightsDocumentary and the Rights Defence MovementProvoking an Interclass Response: Taishi VillageAIDS and Activism: The Central Plains and Care and LoveThe Impact of Activist Documentaries in Contemporary ChinaChapter Five: The Ethics of Encounter in Chinese DocumentaryThe Perceived Crisis of Values in Contemporary ChinaComplicity and Reflexivity: Paper AirplaneThe Ethics of Portraying the Powerless: PetitionEthical Questions as Political Threat in China's Alternative Public SpheresAfterword: Future Prospects for the Alternative...

Product details

• Authors: Edwards, Dan Edwards, Dan (University of Melbourne and Monash U Edwards, Edwards Dan
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2015
• EAN: 9780748695621
• ISBN: 978-0-7486-9562-1
• No. of pages: 216
• Series: Edinburgh Studies in East Asia
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet