TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pickowicz,Paul
TI  - China on film: a century of exploration, confrontation, and controversy 
SN  - 9781442211780 (cloth : alk. paper)
AV  - PN 1993.5 P597c 2012
U1  - 791.43095109 
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Lanham
PB  - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
KW  - Motion picture industry
KW  - China
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Motion pictures
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - 20160300
KW  - Cine chino
KW  - Homicidio político
KW  - Shanghai (China)
KW  - Películas cinematográficas
KW  - Oficiales de inteligencia
KW  - Guerra chino-japonesa, 1937-1945
KW  - In motion pictures
KW  - Peliculas cinematograficas
N1  - 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
N2  - Cs95E872D0{text-align:left;text-indent:0pt;margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0pt}.cs5EFED22F{color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-weight:normal; font-style:normal; }Leading 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
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