Maintaining Law and Order in the City: New Tales of the People’s Police

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: Bearing Witness: Chinese Urban Cinema in the Era of ‘‘Transformation’’ 1
5. I. IDEOLOGY, FILM PRACTICE, AND THE MARKET
6. Rebel without a Cause? China’s New Urban Generation and Postsocialist Filmmaking 49
7. The Independent Cinema of Jia Zhangke: From Postsocialist Realism to a Transnational Aesthetic 81
8. Getting Real: Chinese Documentary, Chinese Postsocialism 115
9. II. THE POLITICS AND POETICS OF URBAN SPACE
10. Tear down the City: Reconstructing Urban Space in Contemporary Chinese Popular Cinema and Avant-Garde Art 137
11. Tracing the City’s Scars: Demolition and the Limits of the Documentary Impulse in the New Urban Cinema 161
12. Scaling the Skyscraper: Images of Cosmopolitan Consumption in Street Angel (1937) and Beautiful New World (1998) 181
13. Whither the Walker Goes: Spatial Practices and Negative Poetics in 1990s Chinese Urban Cinema 205
14. III. THE PRODUCTION OF DESIRE AND IDENTITIES
15. Ning Ying’s Beijing Trilogy: Cinematic Configurations of Age, Class, and Sexuality 241
16. Zhang Yuan’s Imaginary Cities and the Theatricalization of the Chinese ‘‘Bastards’’ 264
17. Mr. Zhao On and O√ the Screen: Male Desire and Its Discontent 295
18. Maintaining Law and Order in the City: New Tales of the People’s Police 316
19. Urban Dreamscape, Phantom Sisters, and the Identity of an Emergent Art Cinema 344
20. Appendix. The Urban Generation Filmmakers (compiled by Charles Leary) 389
21. Bibliography 411
22. Contributors 429
23. Index 431