Zhang Yimou: Interviews (Conversations with Filmmakers)
A member of the Fifth Generation of Chinese filmmakers (Beijing Film Academy class of 1982, the first filmmakers schooled post-Cultural Revolution), Zhang Yimou has earned awards and comparisons to Jean-Luc Goddard and Ingmar Bergman for such films as Ju Dou and Raise the Red Lantern, both initially banned in China. He operates in a precipitous space between governmental sanction (thanks to his success) and his own opinions on oppression particularly sexism in China. In Zhang Yimou: Interviews (part of the University of Mississippi's Conversations with Filmmakers series), edited by assistant professor of film studies at University of Michigan Frances Gateward, Zhang talks with 17 critics about censorship, cinematography and his foreign investors, among other topics.Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.--This text refers to theHardcoveredition.