Chinese ecocinema: in the age of environmental challenge
This anthology is a book-length study of China's ecosystem through the lens of cinema. Proposing 'ecocinema' as a new critical framework, the volume collectively investigates a wide range of urgent topics in today's world.
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- Full title :Chinese ecocinema : in the age of environmental challenge / edited by Sheldon H. Lu and Jiayan Mi.
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This anthology is a book-length study of China's ecosystem through the lens of cinema. Proposing 'ecocinema' as a new critical framework, the volume collectively investigates a wide range of urgent topics in today's world.
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- Publication Date:©2009
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Hong Kong University Press
- Place of Publication:Hong Kong
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2009
The Physical Object
- Description:xiii, 370 pages : : illustrations ; : 24 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9789622090859, 9622090850, 9789622090866, 9622090869
- oclc:ocn338626795
- LC Classification:PN1993.5.C4
- Dewey Decimal:791.43095109/04
Table of Contents
Hydro-politics : water, river, and national trauma. Framing ambient Unheimlich : ecoggedon, ecological unconscious, and water pathology in new Chinese cinema / Jiayan Mi -- Gorgeous Three Gorges at last sight : cinematic remembrance and the dialectic of modernization / Sheldon H. Lu -- Submerged ecology and depth psychology in Wushan yunyu : aesthetic insight into national development / Nick Kaldis -- Floating consciousness : the cinematic confluence of ecological aesthetics in Suzhou River / Andrew Hageman -- Eco-aesthetics, heteroscape, and manufactured landscape. The idea-image : conceptualizing landscape in recent martial arts movies / Mary Farquhar -- Façades : the new Beijing and the unsettled ecology of Jia Zhangke's The world / Jerome Silbergeld -- Ruins and grassroots : Jia Zhangke's cinematic discontents in the age of globalization / Hongbing Zhang -- 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 -- Toward a Hong Kong ecocinema : the dis-appearance of "nature" in three films by Fruit Chan / Chris Tong -- A city of disappearance : trauma, displacement, and spectral c…
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