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Chinese Film in the Twenty-First Century Movements, Genres, Intermedia

210 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

210 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

210 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

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This book examines Chinese film in the twenty-first century. Organized around the themes "movements," "genres," and "intermedia," it reflects on how Chinese cinema has changed, adapted, and evolved over past decades and prognosticates as to its future trajectories. It considers how established film genres in China have adapted and transformed themselves, and discusses current shifts in... Read more

Contents

List of Figures

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

A New Century of Chinese Film and Chinese Film Scholarship

Corey Kai Nelson SCHULTZ and Cecília MELLO

Part I: Movements

1. Chinese Documentary: Towards a Minjian Poetics

Bruno LESSARD

2. Sojourners on the Rivers and Lakes: Chinese Independent Filmmakers as Jianghu Ke (江湖客)

Clemens VON HASELBERG

3. The South China New Wave: Cinema as Xinxiang (Affective-Ideational Imagery)

LIU Siqi

4. Live-streaming and Saved Footage in Zhu Shengze’s Present.Perfect.

Regiane ISHII and Cecília MELLO

Part II: Genres

5. Mainland New Year Films: From Genre to Cinema Season, 1997–2004

Qi AI

6. The Chinese “Quasi-Noir” Cinema Tradition: From Fante Pian to Neo-Noir

Stefano LOCATI

7. Re-animating Chinese Myths: Mythology and/as Mythologies in Contemporary Chinese Animation

Thomas William WHYKE and Melissa Shani BROWN

Part III: Intermedia

8. Film in Brushstrokes: An Intermedial Study on the Integration of Traditional Chinese Painting in Mr. No Problem and Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains

Qiwen WU

9. Strategic Localization and Screen Adaptations of Journey to the West from the 1920s to the 2010s

Hening ZHANG

10. The World and Beijing World Park: Film Tourism, Intermedia, Embodiment, and the Fake

Corey Kai Nelson SCHULTZ

Index