Wang Bing's Filmmaking of the China Dream : : Narratives, Witnesses and Marginal Spaces / / Elena Pollacchi.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021
• VerfasserIn: Pollacchi, Elena,
• MitwirkendeR: Barbera, Alberto,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Critical Asian Cinemas ; 2
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (246 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Table of Contents --; Acknowledgements --; Editorial Note --; Foreword --; Introduction --; 1. Wang Bing’s Cinematic Journey: A Counter-Narrative of the China Dream --; 2. History in the Making: The Debut Epic Tiexi qu: West of the Tracks --; 3. Spaces of Labour: Three Sisters, ’Til Madness Do Us Part, Bitter Money --; 4. Spaces of History and Memory: The Works on the Anti-Rightist Campaign --; 5. Collective Spaces – Individual Narratives --; 6. Concluding Remarks: Spaces of Exhibition and Spaces of Human Practice --; Filmography --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9789048551156; 9783110743227; 9783110743357; 9783110753790; 9783110754032; 9783110754001; 9783110753776
• DOI: 10.1515/9789048551156?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Elena Pollacchi.

This volume offers an organic discussion of Wang Bing's filmmaking across China's marginal spaces and against the backdrop of the state-sanctioned 'China Dream'. Wang's work has contemporary China as its focus and testifies to the country's contradictions, not dissimilar to those of contemporary societies dealing with issues of inequality, labour, and migration. Without being an activist, Wang Bing gives voice to the subaltern. His internationally awarded documentaries are recognized as world masterpieces. His unique aesthetics bears references to film masters, therefore this investigation goes beyond the divide between Western and non-Western film traditions. Each chapter takes a different articulation of space (spaces of labour, spaces of history, spaces of memory) as its entry point bringing together film and documentary studies, Chinese studies, and studies in globalization issues. This volume benefits from the author's extensive conversation with Wang Bing and from insider's observations of film production and the film festival circuit.