The Role of Association: New Thinking on “Exposition, Comparison, Association” in Films
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Haizhou Wang
Haizhou Wang is a professor of Film Studies at Beijing Film Academy. He serves as the Dean of the Postgraduate Department and the Head of the Library of Beijing Film Academy. He is the deputy president of Chinese Collegial Association for Visual Art and is the chair researcher of the China National Social Science Major Project “The Inheritance and Development of Chinese Artistic Traditions in Contemporary Chinese Films.” His monographs Imagined China: Research on Chinese Film Culture of the 1980s and 110 Years of Chinese Films (1905–2015) have won numerous research awards in film studies in China, including the Outstanding Research Awards in Humanities and Social Science of Institutions of Higher Education by Ministry of Education.
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Jian Yu
Jian Yu graduated from Beijing Film Academy with a master degree in 2022.
Abstract
Crucial to the exploration of the nationalization of Chinese films, the concept of exposition (赋 fu), comparison (比 bi), and association (兴 xing) in films has gained much significance. While these concepts still need refining, an in-depth exploration of the terms is still necessary. This article reviews the theoretical term exposition, comparison, association, and argues that it should not be treated simply as pure rhetorical discourse. In particular, any interpretation of association should address the historical and cultural context of early Chinese society, and the early analogical thinking implied in association should be taken as an entry point for exploring the ambiguous ideographic role revealed by this aesthetic concept and extend it to film studies, so as to capture the unique image thinking in Chinese films and other Eastern cinema, which differs from the aesthetic logic of Western films.
Funding source: The Great Wall Scholar Scheme of Beijing Education Commission
Award Identifier / Grant number: CIT&TCD20190316
Funding source: The China National Social Science Major Research Project in Arts "The Inheritance and Development of Chinese Artistic Traditions in Contemporary Chinese Films"
Award Identifier / Grant number: 20ZD18
About the authors
Haizhou Wang is a professor of Film Studies at Beijing Film Academy. He serves as the Dean of the Postgraduate Department and the Head of the Library of Beijing Film Academy. He is the deputy president of Chinese Collegial Association for Visual Art and is the chair researcher of the China National Social Science Major Project “The Inheritance and Development of Chinese Artistic Traditions in Contemporary Chinese Films.” His monographs Imagined China: Research on Chinese Film Culture of the 1980s and 110 Years of Chinese Films (1905–2015) have won numerous research awards in film studies in China, including the Outstanding Research Awards in Humanities and Social Science of Institutions of Higher Education by Ministry of Education.
Jian Yu graduated from Beijing Film Academy with a master degree in 2022.
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Research funding: This work was supported by The Great Wall Scholar Scheme of Beijing Education Commission (CIT&TCD20190316) and The China National Social Science Major Research Project in Arts “The Inheritance and Development of Chinese Artistic Traditions in Contemporary Chinese Films” (20ZD18).
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Special Section: Women, City and Early Chinese Cinema; guest edited by Chen Jin
- Introduction to the Special Section: Women, City and Early Chinese Cinema
- Staging Shanghai in Love and Duty 戀愛與義務 (1923, 1931)
- Revisiting the Stardom of Yang Naimei: The Typecast, the Modern Girl, and the Femme Fatale
- Practicing Runaway: What Happened to Pu Shunqing in the Early Chinese Film Industry?
- To Marry or To Write?—Sheng Qinxian and Her (Screen) Writing in 1940s Shanghai
- Other Research Articles
- The Establishment of Chinese Film Industry Studies and the Correction of Film Industrialization – Review and Prospect of the Twenty Years of Film Industrialization Reform
- The Role of Association: New Thinking on “Exposition, Comparison, Association” in Films
- The Occurrence of Cross-Media and Cross-Cultural Anxiety: Two Stars in the Milky Way from the Perspective of Meta Film
- The Application and Innovation of the Stylized Performance of Traditional Chinese Theater in the Animated Film New Sanchakou
- Film Review
- Never Say Never: Reproduction of Intergenerational Will and Return of Ideal—Interview with Wang Baoqiang
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Special Section: Women, City and Early Chinese Cinema; guest edited by Chen Jin
- Introduction to the Special Section: Women, City and Early Chinese Cinema
- Staging Shanghai in Love and Duty 戀愛與義務 (1923, 1931)
- Revisiting the Stardom of Yang Naimei: The Typecast, the Modern Girl, and the Femme Fatale
- Practicing Runaway: What Happened to Pu Shunqing in the Early Chinese Film Industry?
- To Marry or To Write?—Sheng Qinxian and Her (Screen) Writing in 1940s Shanghai
- Other Research Articles
- The Establishment of Chinese Film Industry Studies and the Correction of Film Industrialization – Review and Prospect of the Twenty Years of Film Industrialization Reform
- The Role of Association: New Thinking on “Exposition, Comparison, Association” in Films
- The Occurrence of Cross-Media and Cross-Cultural Anxiety: Two Stars in the Milky Way from the Perspective of Meta Film
- The Application and Innovation of the Stylized Performance of Traditional Chinese Theater in the Animated Film New Sanchakou
- Film Review
- Never Say Never: Reproduction of Intergenerational Will and Return of Ideal—Interview with Wang Baoqiang
