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Informationen zum Autor Paul G. Pickowicz is Distinguished Professor of History and Chinese Studies at the University of California, San Diego. Yingjin Zhang is Distinguished Professor of Literature and Chinese Studies at the University of California, San Diego. Klappentext This cutting-edge book examines the rapidly developing scene of Chinese independent documentary, arguably the most courageous player in contemporary Chinese visual culture. The book's emphasis on current issues and its discussion of aesthetic experiments will appeal to all readers interested in China's culture, media, politics, and society. Zusammenfassung This cutting-edge book examines the rapidly developing scene of Chinese independent documentary, arguably the most courageous player in contemporary Chinese visual culture. The book’s emphasis on current issues and its discussion of aesthetic experiments will appeal to all readers interested in China’s culture, media, politics, and society. Inhaltsverzeichnis AcknowledgmentsPart I: Cultural Context1. Introduction: Documenting China Independently, by Paul G. Pickowicz and Yingjin Zhang2. Who's Afraid of the Documentary Camera? Refiguring Reality, Memory, and Power in Chinese Independent Documentary, by Yingjin Zhang3. For Whom Does the Director Speak? The Ethics of Representation in Documentary Film Criticism, by Yomi Braester,Part II: Rural Reconfigurations4. From Root-Searching to Grassroots: Returning to the Countryside in Contemporary Chinese Fiction and Independent Documentary Film, by Angie Chau5. Zou Xueping's Postsocialist Homecoming, by Paul G. PickowiczPart III: Embodied Filmmaking6. Looking Back while Marching Forward: Reconfiguration of Selfhood in the Folk Memory Project, by Tong Wang7. The Memory Project and Other Ways of Knowing: Filmmaking, Affect, and Embodied Knowledge, by Laura KisselPart IV: Documentary Enactments8. Gendering Intersubjectivity in New Chinese Documentary: Feminist Multiplicity and Vulnerable Masculinity in Postsocialist China, by Alvin Wong9. From Bumming to Roaming: Xu Tong's The Drifters Trilogy, by Yiman Wang10. Documenting through Reenacting: Revisiting the Performative Mode in Chinese Independent Documentaries, by Hongjian WangAppendix: Michael Berry, "Memory/Document: In Dialogue with Wu Wenguang's Memory Project" Documentary FilmographyAbout the Contributors...
