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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Motion picture industry -- China -- History -- 20th century.
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Motion picture industry. |
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China. |
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History. |
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20th century |
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Motion pictures -- Political aspects -- China -- History -- 20th century.
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Motion pictures -- Political aspects. |
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Motion pictures. |
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Motion pictures -- Social aspects -- China -- History -- 20th century.
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Motion pictures -- Social aspects. |
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China -- In motion pictures.
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1900-1999 |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Print version: Pickowicz, Paul. China on Film : A Century of Exploration, Confrontation, and Controversy. Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, ©2011 9781442211780 |
ISBN |
9781442211803 |
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1442211806 |
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1283362260 |
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9781283362269 |
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9781442211780 (cloth alkaline paper) |
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1442211784 (cloth alkaline paper) |
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9781442211797 (paperback) |
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1442211792 (paperback) |
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