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Author Pickowicz, Paul.

Title China on Film : a Century of Exploration, Confrontation, and Controversy.

Publication Info. Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2011.

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Description 1 online resource (377 pages)
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Contents Acknowledgments; Introduction. The Sorrows and Joys of Chinese Filmmaking: Political and Personal Contexts; Chapter 1. Shanghai Twenties: Early Chinese Cinematic Explorations of the Modern Marriage; Chapter 2. The Theme of Spiritual Pollution in Chinese Films of the 1930s; Chapter 3. Melodramatic Representation and the May Fourth Tradition of Chinese Cinema; Chapter 4. Never-Ending Controversies: The Case of Remorse in Shanghai and Occupation-Era Chinese Filmmaking; Chapter 5. Victory as Defeat: Postwar Visualizations of China's War of Resistance.
Chapter 6. Acting Like Revolutionaries: Shi Hui, the Wenhua Studio, and Private-Sector Filmmaking, 1949-1952Chapter 7. Zheng Junli, Complicity, and the Cultural History of Socialist China, 1949-1976; Chapter 8. The Limits of Cultural Thaw: Chinese Cinema in the Early 1960s; Chapter 9. Popular Cinema and Political Thought in Early Post-Mao China: Reflections on Official Pronouncements, Film, and the Film Audience; Chapter 10. On the Eve of Tiananmen: Huang Jianxin and the Notion of Postsocialism.
Chapter 11. Velvet Prisons and the Political Economy of Chinese Filmmaking in the Late 1980s and Early 1990sChapter 12. Social and Political Dynamics of Underground Filmmaking in Early Twenty-First-Century China; Additional Work on Chinese Cinema by Paul G. Pickowicz; Index; About the Author.
Summary .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.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Subject Motion picture industry -- China -- History -- 20th century.
Motion picture industry.
China.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Motion pictures -- Political aspects -- China -- History -- 20th century.
Motion pictures -- Political aspects.
Motion pictures.
Motion pictures -- Social aspects -- China -- History -- 20th century.
Motion pictures -- Social aspects.
China -- In motion pictures.
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Pickowicz, Paul. China on Film : A Century of Exploration, Confrontation, and Controversy. Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, ©2011 9781442211780
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