Western China on screen : an urban exploration /
Zou, Hongyuan,
Western China on screen : an urban exploration / Hongyan Zou. - Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2021. - 1 online resource (vi, 234 pages) : illustrations (black and white).
Exploring the stories, memories and experiences attached to places, 'Western China on Screen' is the first monograph to explore the affinity between the cinema and cities of western China through a spatial perspective. Investigating how cinematic cities in western China appear as both spaces of national power and enclosed spaces of traditional cultural values, the book problematises the glamourised image of the post-socialist, technocratic metropolises of Beijing and Shanghai, breaking the long-existing rural and ethnographical images of western China established by Chinese Fifth Generation directors. Through case studies of films such as Rainclouds Over Wushan (1996), Buddha Mountain (2010) and Weaving Girl (2010), the book establishes a new way of looking at western urban China on screen: from a space of production to a space of increasing consumption.
9781399501682 (ebook) : No price
Motion pictures--History.--China
Cities and towns in motion pictures.
Cities and towns--China.
China--In motion pictures.
791.430951
Western China on screen : an urban exploration / Hongyan Zou. - Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2021. - 1 online resource (vi, 234 pages) : illustrations (black and white).
Exploring the stories, memories and experiences attached to places, 'Western China on Screen' is the first monograph to explore the affinity between the cinema and cities of western China through a spatial perspective. Investigating how cinematic cities in western China appear as both spaces of national power and enclosed spaces of traditional cultural values, the book problematises the glamourised image of the post-socialist, technocratic metropolises of Beijing and Shanghai, breaking the long-existing rural and ethnographical images of western China established by Chinese Fifth Generation directors. Through case studies of films such as Rainclouds Over Wushan (1996), Buddha Mountain (2010) and Weaving Girl (2010), the book establishes a new way of looking at western urban China on screen: from a space of production to a space of increasing consumption.
9781399501682 (ebook) : No price
Motion pictures--History.--China
Cities and towns in motion pictures.
Cities and towns--China.
China--In motion pictures.
791.430951