What is the sentimental and how can we understand it through the cinema of a particular culture in an age of globalisation? Chow explores these questions by examining nine contemporary Chinese directors whose accomplishments have become historic events in world cinema.
What is the sentimental? How can we understand it by way of the visual and narrative modes of signification specific to cinema and through the manners of social interaction and collective imagining specific to a particular culture in transition? What can the sentimental tell us …
The chapters in this book cover Chinese cinema on the eve of the Tian'anmen Incident, Chinese cinema from 1989 to the middle of the 1990s and Feng Xiaogang's early career, and the 'corporate era' of Chinese cinema in the new millennium and Feng's post-new year productions.
The chapters in this book cover Chinese cinema on the eve of the Tian'anmen Incident, Chinese cinema from 1989 to the middle of the 1990s and Feng Xiaogang's early career, and the 'corporate era' of Chinese cinema in the new millennium and Feng's post-new year productions.
The chapters in this book cover Chinese cinema on the eve of the Tian'anmen Incident, Chinese cinema from 1989 to the middle of the 1990s and Feng Xiaogang's early career, and the 'corporate era' of Chinese cinema in the new millennium and Feng's post-new year productions.
