Chinese ecocinema
Subtitle: in the age of environmental challenge
By: edited by Sheldon H. Lu and Jiayan Mi
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Hong Kong
Language: eng
Number of pages: 370
ISBN-13: 9789622090859; 9789622090866
Subjects: Motion pictures; Environmentalism; Environmental protection and motion pictures; Environmentalism in motion pictures; Documentary films; Ecology in motion pictures; History
Notes: Includes filmography (p. [329]-331).

Includes bibliographical references (p. [333]-351) and index.
Table of contents: title: Hydro-politics : water, river, and national trauma. Framing ambient Unheimlich : ecoggedon, ecological unconscious, and water pathology in new Chinese cinema / Jiayan Mi; title: Gorgeous Three Gorges at last sight : cinematic remembrance and the dialectic of modernization / Sheldon H. Lu; title: Submerged ecology and depth psychology in Wushan yunyu : aesthetic insight into national development / Nick Kaldis; title: Floating consciousness : the cinematic confluence of ecological aesthetics in Suzhou River / Andrew Hageman; title: Eco-aesthetics, heteroscape, and manufactured landscape. The idea-image : conceptualizing landscape in recent martial arts movies / Mary Farquhar; title: Façades : the new Beijing and the unsettled ecology of Jia Zhangke's The world / Jerome Silbergeld; title: Ruins and grassroots : Jia Zhangke's cinematic discontents in the age of globalization / Hongbing Zhang; title: Urban space in production and disappearance. Of humans and nature in documentary : the logic of capital in West of the tracks and Blind shaft / Ban Wang; title: Toward a Hong Kong ecocinema : the dis-appearance of "nature" in three films by Fruit Chan / Chris Tong; title: A city of disappearance : trauma, displacement, and spectral cityscape in contemporary Chinese cinema / Jing Nie; title: Bioethics, non-anthropocentrism, and green sovereignty. In the face of developmental ruins : place attachment and its ethical claims / Xinmin Liu; title: Ning Hao's Incense : a curious tale of earthly Buddhism / Xiaoping Lin; title: Putting back the animals : woman-animal meme in contemporary Taiwanese ecofeminist imagination / Chia-ju Chang; title: "Reconstructing the god-fearing community" : filming Tibet in the twenty-first century / Donghui He.