Contemporary Chinese cinema and visual culture: envisioning the nation

Sheldon Lu's wide-ranging new book investigates how filmmakers and visual artists from mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan have envisioned China as it transitions from a socialist to a globalized capitalist state. It examines how the modern nation has been refashioned and re-imagined in order...

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1. Verfasser: Lu, Sheldon H. 1962- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: London ; New York Bloomsbury Academic 2023
Ausgabe:[First paperback edition]
Schriftenreihe:Global East-Asian screen cultures
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Zusammenfassung:Sheldon Lu's wide-ranging new book investigates how filmmakers and visual artists from mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan have envisioned China as it transitions from a socialist to a globalized capitalist state. It examines how the modern nation has been refashioned and re-imagined in order to keep pace with globalization and transnationalism.At the heart of Lu's analysis is a double movement in the relationship between nation and transnationalism in the Chinese post-socialist state. He considers the complexity of how the Chinese economy is integrated in the global capitalist system while also remaining a repressive body politic with mechanisms of control and surveillance. He explores the interrelations of the local, the national, the subnational, and the global as China repositions itself in the world.Lu considers examples from feature and documentary film, mainstream and marginal cinema, and a variety of visual arts: photography, painting, digital video, architecture, and installation. His close case studies include representations of class, masculinity and sexuality in contemporary Taiwanese and Chinese cinema; the figure of the sex worker as a symbol of modernity and mobility; and artists' representations of Beijing at the time of the 2008 Olympics. --
Beschreibung:First published in Great Britain 2021 by Bloomsbury Academic, London
Beschreibung:xi, 242 Seiten Illustrationen 24 cm
ISBN:135025438X
9781350254381

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