Memory, Subjectivity and Independent Chinese Cinema / / Qi Wang.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Wang, Qi,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Edinburgh Studies in East Asian Film : ESEAF
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (264 p.) :; 36 B/W illustrations

A historically informed examination of independent moving image works made between 1990 and 2010 in ChinaMemory, Subjectivity and Independent Chinese Cinema provides a historically informed examination of independent moving image works made between 1990 and 2010 in China. Showcasing an evolving personal mode of narrating memory, documenting reality, and inscribing subjectivity in over sixteen selected works that range from narrative film and documentary to experimental video and digital media (even including a multimedia avant-garde play), this book presents a provocative portrait of the independent filmmakers as a peculiarly pained yet active group of historical subjects of the transitional, post-socialist era.Through a connected investigation of cultural and cinematic concepts including historical consciousness, personal memory, narrative, performance, subjectivity, spatiality, and the body, Wang weaves a critical narrative of the formation of a unique post-socialist cultural consciousness that enables independent cinema and media to become a highly significant and effective conduit for historical thinking in contemporary China.Covers the following directorsZhang Yimou, Chen Kaige, Jia Zhangke, Jiang Wen, Lou Ye, Meng Jinghui, Wang Bing, Wang Guangli, Duan Jinchuan, Cui Zi'en, Shi Tou, and Tang Danhong, this book is essential reading for all students and scholars in Chinese film.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I From the Past: Subjectivity, Memory and Narrative -- 1 Toward the Figuration of a Postsocialist Subject -- 2 For a Narration of One's Own -- Part II In the Present: Camera, Documentary and Performance -- 3 Surface and Edge: The Cinema of Jia Zhangke and Lou Ye -- 4 Personal Documentary -- 5 Performing Bodies in Experimental and Digital Media -- Conclusion: China's Luckless but Hopeful Angels of History -- Notes -- Selected Filmography and Bibliography -- Index