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Screening China

Screening China


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About the Book

When Chinese films are screened in the West, viewers often prize, debate, and critique the "Chineseness" presented therein. Critics, scholars, and cultural theorists, too, latch onto the ethnic and cultural markers in Chinese film, often applying their theories as if they were universally applicable and even independent of history. They study only a small number of films from a large body of available works, often with a unidirectional Eurocentric bias. As a result, Chinese filmmakers are caught between the Western consumer and critical demand for ethnic and cultural images and the local restrictions of economics and politics. Screening China follows filmmakers' efforts to reconfigure China and position their work between the global and the local. In Part I, Yingjin Zhang catalogs the lenses Western film critics have used to break down, neatly package, and closely scrutinize China. One of the chief examples is the narrative of Communist Party censorship in which the regime notoriously represses artists and repeatedly violates human rights. In Part II of Screening China, Zhang narrates how New Chinese Cinema struggled to break free of the ethnic and cultural representation sought by Western audiences, introducing readers to the numerous Chinese filmmakers who have used the space opened up by New Chinese Cinema to present China in all its social, historical, political, ethnic, cultural, and economic facets.
About the Author: Yingjin Zhang is Professor of Chinese Literature and Film, Comparative Literature, and Cultural Studies at University of California, San Diego.


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  • ISBN-13: 9780892641475
  • Publisher: U of M Center for Chinese Studies
  • Publisher Imprint: U of M Center for Chinese Studies
  • Depth: 31
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 30 mm
  • Weight: 788 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0892641479
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jan 2001
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Height: 238 mm
  • No of Pages: 448
  • Series Title: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies
  • Sub Title: Critical Interventions, Cinematic Reconfigurations, and the Transnational Imaginary in Contemporary Chinese Cinema
  • Width: 163 mm


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