Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. List of Contributors xi
5. Part I: Historical Overview
6. 1. Introduction 1
7. 2. Rethinking China’s New Documentary Movement: Engagement with the Social 15
8. 3. DV: Individual Filmmaking 49
9. Part II: Documenting Marginalization, or Identities New and Old
10. 4. West of the Tracks: History and Class-Consciousness 57
11. 5. Coming out of The Box, Marching as Dykes 77
12. Part III: Publics, Counter-Publics, and Alternative Publics
13. 6. Blowup Beijing: The City as a Twilight Zone 99
14. 7. Watching Documentary: Critical Public Discourses and Contemporary Urban Chinese Film Clubs 117
15. 8. Alternative Archive: China’s Independent Documentary Culture 135
16. Part IV: Between Filmmaker and Subject: Re-creating Realism
17. 9. Translating the Unspeakable: On-Screen and Off-Screen Voices in Wu Wenguang’s Documentary Work 157
18. 10. From “Public” to “Private”: Chinese Documentary and the Logic of Xianchang 177
19. 11. Excuse Me, Your Camera Is in My Face: Auteurial Intervention in PRC New Documentary 195
20. 12. “I Am One of Them” and “They Are My Actors”: Performing, Witnessing, and DV Image-Making in Plebian China 217
21. Appendix 1: Biographies of Key Documentarians 237
22. Appendix 2: Sources of Films 251
23. Notes 253
24. List of Chinese Names 285
25. List of Chinese Film and Video Titles 287
26. Index 295