New Chinese Cinemas: Forms, Identities, Politics - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521448778 ISBN 13: 9780521448772

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1996

Synopsis

New Chinese Cinemas analyzes the changing forms and significance of filmmaking in the People's Republic of China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong since the end of the Cultural Revolution, with a particular emphasis on how film comments on the profound social changes that have occurred in East Asia over the past two decades. Considering in detail both conservative and progressive stances on economic modernization, it also demonstrates how film has been an important formal structure and social document in the interpretation of these changes. The essays collected here, which were specially commissioned for this volume, also offer extended analyses of the important trends, styles, and work that define Chinese filmmaking in the 1980s.

About this title

Book Description:

This analysis of the changing forms and significance of Chinese filmmaking considers conservative as well as progressive stances on modernization. It reveals how film comments on the profound social changes that have occurred in East Asia over the past two decades.

Review:

"...New Chinese Cinemas...is undoubtedly the best singel-volume publication on contemporary Chinese cinema in English to date." Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0521448778
• ISBN 13: 9780521448772
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 276
• Editor: Browne Nick, Pickowicz Paul G., Sobchack Vivian, Yau Esther