Description: Further DetailsTitle: Building a New China in CinemaCondition: NewSubtitle: The Chinese Left-Wing Cinema Movement, 1932-1937ISBN-10: 0742509451EAN: 9780742509450ISBN: 9780742509450Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield PublishersFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 05/01/2002Description: Building a New China in Cinema introduces English readers for the first time to one of the most exciting left-wing cinema traditions in the world. This unique book explores the history, ideology, and aesthetics of China's left-wing cinema movement, a quixotic film culture that was as political as commercial, as militant as sensationalist. Originating in the 1930s, it marked the first systematic intellectual involvement in Chinese cinema. In this era of turmoil and idealism, the movement's films were characterized by fantasies of heroism intertwined with the inescapable spell of impotency, thus exposing the contradictions of the filmmakers' underlying ideology as their political and artistic agendas alternately fought against or catered to the taste and viewing habits of a popular audience. Political cinema became a commercially successful industry, resulting in a film culture that has never been replicated. Drawing on detailed archival research, Pang demonstrates that this cinema movement was a product of the era's social, economic, and political discourses. The author offers a close analysis of many rarely seen films, richly illustrated with over eighty stills collected from the Beijing Film Archive. With its original conceptual approach and rich use of primary sources, this book will be of interest not only to scholars and fans of Chinese cinema but to those who study the relationship between cinema and modernity.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 161mmItem Width: 25mmItem Weight: 603gAuthor: Laikwan PangGenre: Films & TVTopic: Society & Culture, Law & Politics, HistoryRelease Year: 2002 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: Building a New China in Cinema
Title: Building a New China in Cinema
Subtitle: The Chinese Left-Wing Cinema Movement, 1932-1937
ISBN-10: 0742509451
EAN: 9780742509450
ISBN: 9780742509450
Release Date: 05/01/2002
Release Year: 2002
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Book Title: Building a New China in Cinema : the Chinese Left-Wing Cinema Movement, 1932-1937
Number of Pages: 304 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
Topic: Ethnic Studies / General
Publication Year: 2002
Item Height: 1 in
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Social Science
Item Weight: 21.3 Oz
Item Length: 9 in
Author: Laikwan Pang
Item Width: 6.3 in
Format: Hardcover
