China in the mix
Subtitle: cinema, sound, and popular culture in the age of globalization
By: Ying Xiao
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 313
ISBN-13: 9781496812605
Subjects: Motion pictures; Sound in motion pictures; Popular music; Sound motion pictures; Motion pictures and music; Popular culture; History
Description: "Scarce attention has been paid to the dimension of sound and its essential role in constructing image, culture, and identity in Chinese film and media. China in the Mix fills a critical void with the first book on the sound, languages, scenery, media, and culture in post-Socialist China. In this study, Ying Xiao explores fascinating topics, including appropriations of popular folklore in the Chinese new wave of the 1980s; Chinese rock 'n' roll and youth cinema in fin de siècle China; the political-economic impact of free market imperatives and Hollywood pictures on Chinese film industry and filmmaking in the late twentieth century; the reception and adaptation of hip hop; and the emerging role of Internet popular culture and social media in the early twenty-first century. Xiao examines the articulations and representations of mass culture and everyday life, concentrating on their aural/oral manifestations in contemporary Chinese cinema and in a wide spectrum of media and cultural productions. China in the Mix offers the first comprehensive investigation of Chinese film, expressions, and culture from a unique, cohesive acoustic angle and through the prism of global media-cultural exchange. It shows how the complex, evolving uses of sound (popular music, voice-over, silence, noise, and audio mixing) in film and media reflect and engage the important cultural and socio-historical shifts in contemporary China and in the increasingly networked world. Xiao offers an innovative new conception of Chinese film and media and their audiovisual registers in the historiographical frame of China amid the global landscape"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references, filmography, and index.
Table of contents: title: Overture : Sound, Image, and Popular Media at the Nexus of Global-China; title: Northwest Wind : Folklore, Vernacular, and the Chinese New Waves; title: The Convergence of Popular Music-Film : Zhang Yimou-Zhao Jiping and Spectacles of Sound; title: "Rock 'n' Roll on the New Long March" : Cui Jian and the Voices and Moving Images of Chinese Rock Kids; title: "At the Intersection of Film and Music" : Jia Zhangke and Urban Youth Cinema; title: National Anthem at Guangchang : Languagescape, Ideoscape, and Mediascape in the Time of Global Picture; title: "Hip Hop Is My Knife, Rap Is My Sword" : Hip Hop Network and the Changing Landscape of Image and Sound Making; title: Finale : A Shift in Perception; title: Appendix I : Music and Sound in Jia Zhangke's Platform (Zhantai, 2000); title: Appendix II : Box Office Overview of Mainland China, 1985-2012.