China on film
Subtitle: a century of exploration, confrontation, and controversy
By: Paul G. Pickowicz
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Lanham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 365
ISBN-13: 9781442211780; 9781442211803
Subjects: Motion pictures; Motion picture industry; History; In motion pictures
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the sorrows and joys of Chinese filmmaking: political and personal contexts; title: Shanghai twenties: early Chinese cinematic explorations of the modern marriage; title: The theme of spiritual pollution in Chinese films of the 1930s; title: Melodramatic representation and the "May fourth" tradition of Chinese filmmaking; title: Never-ending controversies: the case of remorse in Shanghai and occupation-era  Chinese filmmaking; title: Victory as defeat: postwar visualizations of China's war of resistance; title: Acting like revolutionaries: Shi Hui, The Wenhua Studio, and private-sector filmmaking, 1949-1952; title: Zheng Junli, complicity, and the cultural history of socialist China, 1949-1976; title: The limits of thaw: Chinese cinema in the early 1960s; title: Popular cinema and political thought in early Post-Mao China: reflections on official pronouncements, film, and the film audience; title: On the eve of Tiananmen: Huang Jianxin and the notion of postsocialism; title: Velvet prison and the political economy of Chinese filmmaking in the late 1980s and early 1990s; title: Social and political dynamics of underground filmmaking in early twenty-first century China.