New Chinese Documentary Film Movement For the Public Record

Name: New Chinese Documentary Film Movement For the Public Record
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ISBN: 9789888028528

ISBN-10: 9888028529

ISBN-13: 9789888028528

Edition: 2010

Authors: Chris Berry, Lu Xinyu, Lisa Rofel

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The New Chinese Documentary Film Movement is a groundbreaking project unveiling recent documentary film work that has transformed visual culture in China, and brought new immediacy along with a broader base of participation to Chinese media. As a foundational text, this volume provides a much-needed introduction to the topic of Chinese documentary film, the signature mode of contemporary Chinese visual culture. These essays examine how documentary filmmakers have opened up a unique new space of social commentary and critique in an era of rapid social changes amid globalization and marketization.The essays cover topics ranging from cruelty in documentary to the representation of Beijing;…

Book details

List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Publication date: 8/9/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 268
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English



List of Illustrations


List of Contributors



Historical Overview



Introduction




Rethinking China's New Documentary Movement: Engagement with the Social




DV: Individual Filmmaking




Documenting Marginalization, or Identities New and Old



West of the Tracks: History and Class-Consciousness




Coming out of The Box, Marching as Dykes




Publics, Counter-Publics, and Alternative Publics



Blowup Beijing: The City as a Twilight Zone




Watching Documentary: Critical Public Discourses and Contemporary Urban Chinese Film Clubs




Alternative Archive: China's Independent Documentary Culture




Between Filmmaker and Subject: Re-creating Realism



Translating the Unspeakable: On-Screen and Off-Screen Voices in Wu Wenguang's Documentary Work




From "Public" to "Private": Chinese Documentary and the Logic of Xianchang




Excuse Me, Your Camera Is in My Face: Auteurial Intervention in PRC New Documentary




"I Am One of Them" and "They Are My Actors": Performing, Witnessing, and DV Image-Making in Plebian China




Biographies of Key Documentarians




Sources of Films


Notes


List of Chinese Names


List of Chinese Film and Video Titles


Index