China on film : a century of exploration, confrontation, and controversy /
Pickowicz, Paul.
China on film : a century of exploration, confrontation, and controversy / Paul G. Pickowicz. - Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2012. - x, 365 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: the sorrows and joys of Chinese filmmaking: political and personal contexts -- Shanghai twenties: early Chinese cinematic explorations of the modern marriage -- The theme of spiritual pollution in Chinese films of the 1930s -- Melodramatic representation and the "May fourth" tradition of Chinese filmmaking -- Never-ending controversies: the case of remorse in Shanghai and occupation-era Chinese filmmaking -- Victory as defeat: postwar visualizations of China's war of resistance -- Acting like revolutionaries: Shi Hui, The Wenhua Studio, and private-sector filmmaking, 1949-1952 -- Zheng Junli, complicity, and the cultural history of socialist China, 1949-1976 -- The limits of thaw: Chinese cinema in the early 1960s -- Popular cinema and political thought in early Post-Mao China: reflections on official pronouncements, film, and the film audience -- On the eve of Tiananmen: Huang Jianxin and the notion of postsocialism -- Velvet prison and the political economy of Chinese filmmaking in the late 1980s and early 1990s -- Social and political dynamics of underground filmmaking in early twenty-first century China.
Cs95E872D0.cs5EFED22FLeading scholar Paul G. Pickowicz traces the dynamic history of Chinese filmmaking and its stunning development decade-by-decade since the 1920s. During the last one hundred years, China has been embroiled in a seemingly unending series of wars, revolutions, and jarring social transformations. Despite daunting censorship obstacles, Chinese filmmakers have found ingenious ways of taking poli.
9781442211780 (cloth : alk. paper) 9781442211797 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9781442211803 (electronic)
2011041693
Motion picture industry--History--China--20th century.
Motion pictures--Political aspects--History--China--20th century.
Motion pictures--Social aspects--History--China--20th century.
20160300.
Cine chino
Homicidio político--Películas cinematográficas.--Shanghai (China)
Oficiales de inteligencia--Películas cinematográficas.--Shanghai (China)
Guerra chino-japonesa, 1937-1945--Películas cinematográficas.
China--In motion pictures.
China--Peliculas cinematograficas.
PN 1993.5 / P597c 2012
791.43095109
China on film : a century of exploration, confrontation, and controversy / Paul G. Pickowicz. - Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2012. - x, 365 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: the sorrows and joys of Chinese filmmaking: political and personal contexts -- Shanghai twenties: early Chinese cinematic explorations of the modern marriage -- The theme of spiritual pollution in Chinese films of the 1930s -- Melodramatic representation and the "May fourth" tradition of Chinese filmmaking -- Never-ending controversies: the case of remorse in Shanghai and occupation-era Chinese filmmaking -- Victory as defeat: postwar visualizations of China's war of resistance -- Acting like revolutionaries: Shi Hui, The Wenhua Studio, and private-sector filmmaking, 1949-1952 -- Zheng Junli, complicity, and the cultural history of socialist China, 1949-1976 -- The limits of thaw: Chinese cinema in the early 1960s -- Popular cinema and political thought in early Post-Mao China: reflections on official pronouncements, film, and the film audience -- On the eve of Tiananmen: Huang Jianxin and the notion of postsocialism -- Velvet prison and the political economy of Chinese filmmaking in the late 1980s and early 1990s -- Social and political dynamics of underground filmmaking in early twenty-first century China.
Cs95E872D0.cs5EFED22FLeading scholar Paul G. Pickowicz traces the dynamic history of Chinese filmmaking and its stunning development decade-by-decade since the 1920s. During the last one hundred years, China has been embroiled in a seemingly unending series of wars, revolutions, and jarring social transformations. Despite daunting censorship obstacles, Chinese filmmakers have found ingenious ways of taking poli.
9781442211780 (cloth : alk. paper) 9781442211797 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9781442211803 (electronic)
2011041693
Motion picture industry--History--China--20th century.
Motion pictures--Political aspects--History--China--20th century.
Motion pictures--Social aspects--History--China--20th century.
20160300.
Cine chino
Homicidio político--Películas cinematográficas.--Shanghai (China)
Oficiales de inteligencia--Películas cinematográficas.--Shanghai (China)
Guerra chino-japonesa, 1937-1945--Películas cinematográficas.
China--In motion pictures.
China--Peliculas cinematograficas.
PN 1993.5 / P597c 2012
791.43095109