New Chinese-language documentaries: ethics, subject and place

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"Documentary film-making is one of the most vibrant areas of media activity in China, with many independent film-makers producing documentaries on a range of sensitive socio-political matters, often bringing a strongly ethical approach. This book outlines the development of documentary film-making in mainland China and Taiwan, contrasts independent documentaries with official state productions, considers the production and distribution of independent documentary film-makers, and discusses the r…

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Full title :New Chinese-language documentaries : ethics, subject and place / Kuei-fen Chiu and Yingjin Zhang.

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Publication Date:2015.

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Publisher(s):Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group
Place of Publication:Abingdon, Oxon
Language:eng
Publication Date:2015.

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Description:1 online resource

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ISBN:9781317936954, 1317936957, 1315858517, 9781315858517, 9781317936947, 1317936949, 9781317936930, 1317936930
oclc:ocn922965936
LC Classification:PN1995.9.D6
Dewey Decimal:070.1/8

Introduction: new Chinese-language documentaries -- Part I: History and politics -- The history of documentary filmmaking in mainland China -- The vision and voice of new Taiwan documentary -- Part II: Theory and ethics -- Independent documentary and social theories of space and locality -- Subject to movement: Wu Wenguang and the ethics of self -- Part III: Subject and gender -- New subjectivities in women's documentary films -- The other as interlocutor: "voices of the people" in Taiwan's documentaries -- Part IV: Place and migration -- Empowering place: Jia Zhangke's post-nostalgic assemblage of Shanghai -- Migration documentaries and the vision of cosmopolitanism -- Part V: Exhibition and circulation -- Taiwan documentary in the international arena -- The circulation of mainland Chinese independent documentary.

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