Screening post-1989 China
Subtitle: critical analysis of Chinese film and television
By: Wing Shan Ho
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 227
ISBN-13: 9781137517609
Subjects: Motion pictures; History; Television broadcasting; Visual communication; Civilization
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-217) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: how far can we go in controlling and negotiating cultural production and consumption; title: Part 1. Screening the economic subject in films; title: Selfless party officials and the socialist legacy; title: Insulting portrayals of the era: selling one's son, murder, and human trafficking; title: Part 2. Screening the sexual subject on the television; title: Golden marriage: an exemplary marriage and a harmonious society; title: Narrow dwelling: extra-marital sex and the city; title: Part 3. Screening the political subject in films; title: Selling party patriotism to intellectuals in the Chinese blockbuster hero; title: (Dis)associating political dissent and non-heteronormative sexual desire; title: Conclusion: how far have we gone.