1st Edition

Chinese Animation, Creative Industries, and Digital Culture

By Weihua Wu Copyright 2018
208 Pages
by Routledge

206 Pages
by Routledge

206 Pages
by Routledge

This book explores the development of the Chinese animation film industry from the beginning of China’s reform process up to the present. It discusses above all the relationship between the communist state’s policies to stimulate "creative industries", concepts of creativity and aesthetics, and the creation and maintenance , through changing circumstances, of a national style by Chinese... Read more

1. Introduction



2. Catachresisand Metaphor in Theorizing Chinese Animation



3. The State, Animation Spectatorship, and Cultural Dislocation in the Reform Era



4.New Image, Old Discourse: the Post-Meishu Reorientation



5.The Everyday Practice of I-Generation in Cyberspace: Flash Empire and Chinese Shanke



6. Resistance as Hegemony: The Coming Age of Chinese Independent Animation



7. Conclusion

Biography

Weihua Wu is a Professor of Media Studies in the Faculty of Journalism and Communication at the Communication University of China.





 



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