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