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[ecrea] New book series: Edinburgh Studies in East Asian Film

Tue Sep 23 23:11:48 GMT 2014



Introducing a new series from Edinburgh University Press…



Edinburgh Studies in East Asian Film

Series Editor: Margaret Hillenbrand

This series explores all aspects of East Asian cinema, encompassing its major genres, its leading auteurs, links between regional cinematic traditions and the growth of transnational cinema.



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Memory, Subjectivity and Independent Chinese Cinema

By Qi Wang



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Memory, Subjectivity and Independent Chinese Cinema provides a historically informed examination of independent moving image works made between 1990 and 2010 in China. Showcasing an evolving personal mode of narrating memory, documenting reality, and inscribing subjectivity in over sixteen selected works that range from narrative film and documentary to experimental video and digital media (even including a multimedia avant-garde play), this book presents a provocative portrait of the independent filmmakers as a peculiarly pained yet active group of historical subjects of the transitional, post-socialist era. Through a connected investigation of cultural and cinematic concepts including historical consciousness, personal memory, narrative, performance, subjectivity, spatiality, and the body, Wang weaves a critical narrative of the formation of a unique post-socialist cultural consciousness that enables independent cinema and media to become a highly significant and effective conduit for historical thinking in contemporary China.



Covering directors such as Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige, Jia Zhangke, Jiang Wen, Lou Ye, Meng Jinghui, Wang Bing, Wang Guangli, Duan Jinchuan, Cui Zi’en, Shi Tou, and Tang Danhong, this book is essential reading for all students and scholars in Chinese film.



Introduction

Part I: From the Past: Subjectivity, Memory, and Narrative

1. Toward the Figuration of a Post-Socialist Subject

2. For a Narration of One’s Own

Part II: In the Present: Camera, Documentary, and Performance

3. Surface and Edge: the Cinema of Jia Zhangke and Lou Ye

4. Personal Documentary

5. Performing Bodies in Experimental and Digital Media

Conclusion: China’s Luckless but Hopeful Angels of History

Selected Filmography

Bibliography





HARDBACK: September 2014 / 264 pages / ISBN 9780748692330 / $120.00 / £70.00



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Qi Wang is an Associate Professor of film and media studies at the Georgia Institute of Technology.



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