Painting the City Red - Chinese Cinema and the Urban Contract

Informationen zum Autor Yomi Braester Klappentext A historical account of how films and theater pieces created in the PRC (and Taiwan) since 1949 have interacted with state and local governments, developers and city planners, and ordinary residents in the dramatic urbanization of China. Zusammenfassung An examination of the role of cinema and theater in representing urban transformations in China from 1949 to the present. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction: Film and the Urban Contract 1 1. New China, New Beijing: Staging the Socialist City of the Future 27 2. A Big Dyeing Vat: The Rise of Proletarian Shanghai and the Fall of Nanjing Road 56 3. Mansions of Uneven Rhyme: Beijing Courtyards and the Instant City 95 4. The First Precinct Under Heaven: State Symbolism and Unplanned Urbanism at Tiananmen Square 151 5. Angel Sanctuaries: Taipei's Gentrification and the Erasure of Veterans' Villages 187 6. "This is the Story of Our Street": Urban Preservation and the Post-Maoist Politics of Memory 224 7. The Day Trip of Your Dreams: Globalizing Beijing and the Postspatial City 281 Notes 311 Filmography 341 Stage Plays 351 Bibliography 353 Index 383

Product details

• Authors: Yomi Braester
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.04.2010
• EAN: 9780822347064
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-4706-4
• No. of pages: 424
• Series: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society; Asia-Pacific, Culture, Politic; Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society; Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politic
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous