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

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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