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Building a New China in Cinema
The Chinese Left-Wing Cinema Movement, 1932-1937
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2002
Summary
Building a New China in Cinema introduces English readers for the first time to one of the most exciting left-wing cinema traditions in the world. This unique book explores the history, ideology, and aesthetics of China's left-wing cinema movement, a quixotic film culture that was as political as commercial, as militant as sensationalist. Originating in the 1930s, it marked the first systematic intellectual involvement in Chinese cinema. In this era of turmoil and idealism, the movement's films were characterized by fantasies of heroism intertwined with the inescapable spell of impotency, thus exposing the contradictions of the filmmakers' underlying ideology as their political and artistic agendas alternately fought against or catered to the taste and viewing habits of a popular audience. Political cinema became a commercially successful industry, resulting in a film culture that has never been replicated. Drawing on detailed archival research, Pang demonstrates that this cinema movement was a product of the era's social, economic, and political discourses. The author offers a close analysis of many rarely seen films, richly illustrated with over eighty stills collected from the Beijing Film Archive. With its original conceptual approach and rich use of primary sources, this book will be of interest not only to scholars and fans of Chinese cinema but to those who study the relationship between cinema and modernity.
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Copyright year
2002
ISBN-Print
978-0-7425-0945-0
ISBN-Online
978-0-7425-7222-5
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
279
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Contents No access
List of Illustrations No access
Translations and Abbreviations No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 16
1 The Merging of Histories No access
2 The Left-wing Cinema Movement No access
3 The Role of Authorship in the Age of Nationalism No access
4 Masculinity and Collectivism: Romancing Politics No access
5 Women's Stories On-screen versus Off-screen No access
6 A Commercial Cinema or a Political Cinema? No access
7 A Shanghai Cinema or a Chinese Cinema? No access
8 Engaging Realism No access
Epilogue No access Pages 231 - 240
Appendix I Chinese Left-wing Movies of the 1930s No access Pages 241 - 244
Appendix II Popular Chinese Movies, 1932-1937 No access Pages 245 - 248
Bibliography and Filmography No access Pages 249 - 272
