Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction 1
5. PART ONE Ethical and Political Stakes
6. CHAPTER 1. Marking The Body 29
7. CHAPTER 2. The Cruelty of the Social 57
8. CHAPTER 3. Filming Power and the Powerless 76
9. CHAPTER 4. The Spectacular Crowd 97
10. CHAPTER 5. DV-Made Tibet 119
11. CHAPTER 6. Chinese Independent Cinema in the Age of “Digital Distribution” 163
12. PART TWO Aesthetic and Activist Experiments
13. CHAPTER 7. Chinese Digital Shadows 187
14. CHAPTER 8. The Recalcitrance of Reality 215
15. CHAPTER 9. Crossing Cameras in China 237
16. CHAPTER 10. DV and the Animateur Cinema in China 260
17. CHAPTER 11. “To Whom Do Our Bodies Belong?” 289
18. CHAPTER 12. Toward a Digital Political Mimesis 316
19. APPENDIX I: Chinese and Non-Chinese Filmography/Videography 347
20. APPENDIX II: Tibetan Filmography/ Videography 365
21. Contributors 371
22. Index 375