Postsocialist Conditions

Ideas and History in China’s "Independent Cinema", 1988-2008

AvXiaoping Wang

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

Del 19 i serien Ideas, History, and Modern China

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Beskrivning

In Postsocialist Conditions: Idea and History in China’s “Independent Cinema,” 1988-2008, WANG Xiaoping offers a comprehensive survey and trenchant critique of China’s “Independent Cinema” by the sixth-generation auteurs. By showing the multi-valence of the postsocialist conditions in contemporary Chinese society, their films articulate a new cultural-political logic in postsocialist China, which is also the logic of the market in this era of neoliberal transformation, brought about by the forces of marketization since the late 1980s.The directors laudably show the spirits of humanism and the humanitarian concerns of the underclass, yet the shortage and repudiation of class analysis prohibits the artists from exploring the social contradictions and the cause of class restructuration.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2018-09-20
Mått:155 x 235 x 33 mm
Vikt:882 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Ideas, History, and Modern China
Antal sidor:472
Förlag:Brill
ISBN:9789004385542

Utforska kategorier

Film inom Kultur
Kulturvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

WANG Xiaoping, Ph.D. (2010), is Chair Professor of Chinese studies at Huaqiao University and Adjunct Professor of the Institute of Arts and Humanities of Shanghai Jiaotong University, China. He has published more than 100 articles and numerous monographs, including Ideology and Utopia in China’s New Wave Cinema: Globalization and Its Chinese Discontents (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018).

Innehållsförteckning

ContentsAcknowledgmentsList of IllustrationsIntroduction: Articulating the Logic of China’s Postsocialist Society in the Era of Neo-Liberal Transformation1 China in Transition: Jia Zhangke’s “Hometown Trilogy”2 Postmodern Anomie or Postsocialist Alienation?3 Problematic Narration of the Historical Experience of Working Class4 Portraying the Abject and the Sublime of the Subaltern5 Exhibiting the Confusion and Melancholy of Artists6 Women’s Changing Destiny in the Post-Revolutionary Fantasyland7 In the Name of Love: Ideology of the Elite Class8 Whither China? Wang Chao’s “China Trilogy”Conclusion: On the Historicity of the Sixth-Generation Auteurs and China’s “Independent” CinemaFilmographySelected BibliographyIndex