Cecília Mello is Professor in Film Studies at the University of São Paulo, Brazil. She has written previously on Jia Zhangke in book chapters and articles, and she is the co-editor, with Lúcia Nagib, of Realism and the Audiovisual Media (2009).

The tone is serious and scholarly, and the author approaches her subject as if nothing could be as important in a world in which the liberal arts have been almost abandoned … Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.

• 1. 'Introduction: Jia Zhangke, Realism, Memory and Impurity'2. 'The Walls of China: Between Ephemerality and Permanence'3. 'Ping Yao’s City Walls: On-Location Filming and the Weight of History'4. 'Pop Music’s Sonic Memories'5. 'Landscape Painting, Chinese Philosophy and the Aesthetic Innovation of Still Life'6. 'Opera, Wuxia and China’s Imagined Civilization'7. 'Painterly Still Lives and Photographic Poses: Stillness and the Moving Image'8. 'Garden Heterotopias and the Memory of Space'9. 'I Wish I Knew’s Cinephilic Journeys (an afterword on intertextuality)'10. Bibliography

Cecília Mello is Professor in Film Studies at the University of São Paulo, Brazil. She has written previously on Jia Zhangke in book chapters and articles, and she is the co-editor, with Lúcia Nagib, of Realism and the Audiovisual Media (2009).

The tone is serious and scholarly, and the author approaches her subject as if nothing could be as important in a world in which the liberal arts have been almost abandoned … Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.

• 1. 'Introduction: Jia Zhangke, Realism, Memory and Impurity'2. 'The Walls of China: Between Ephemerality and Permanence'3. 'Ping Yao’s City Walls: On-Location Filming and the Weight of History'4. 'Pop Music’s Sonic Memories'5. 'Landscape Painting, Chinese Philosophy and the Aesthetic Innovation of Still Life'6. 'Opera, Wuxia and China’s Imagined Civilization'7. 'Painterly Still Lives and Photographic Poses: Stillness and the Moving Image'8. 'Garden Heterotopias and the Memory of Space'9. 'I Wish I Knew’s Cinephilic Journeys (an afterword on intertextuality)'10. Bibliography

Cecília Mello is Professor in Film Studies at the University of São Paulo, Brazil. She has written previously on Jia Zhangke in book chapters and articles, and she is the co-editor, with Lúcia Nagib, of Realism and the Audiovisual Media (2009).

The tone is serious and scholarly, and the author approaches her subject as if nothing could be as important in a world in which the liberal arts have been almost abandoned … Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.

• 1. 'Introduction: Jia Zhangke, Realism, Memory and Impurity'2. 'The Walls of China: Between Ephemerality and Permanence'3. 'Ping Yao’s City Walls: On-Location Filming and the Weight of History'4. 'Pop Music’s Sonic Memories'5. 'Landscape Painting, Chinese Philosophy and the Aesthetic Innovation of Still Life'6. 'Opera, Wuxia and China’s Imagined Civilization'7. 'Painterly Still Lives and Photographic Poses: Stillness and the Moving Image'8. 'Garden Heterotopias and the Memory of Space'9. 'I Wish I Knew’s Cinephilic Journeys (an afterword on intertextuality)'10. Bibliography