1st Edition
Feng Xiaogang’s New Year Films Industry, Regulation, Humour and Authorship
By Qi Ai
Copyright 2025
274 Pages
by
Routledge
274 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book offers not only an in-depth study of Feng Xiaogang as a cinematic auteur but also a comprehensive and informative discussion of the industrial transformation of mainstream Chinese cinema under party-state regulation from the 1990s to the 2010s. It argues that Feng is not simply a commercially and artistically successful auteur but also a strategist who manages to achieve such success by... Read more
Acknowledgements, Introduction, Chapter 1. Event Film and New Year Expectation, Chapter 2. Industry Allegory and State-led Commercialisation, Chapter 3. Film Regulation and Creative Compliance, Chapter 4. Tiaokan Humour and Popular Culture, Chapter 5. Auteur Status and Commercial Aesthetics, Conclusion, Bibliography, Appendix, Index
Biography
Qi Ai is a Lecturer in the School of Journalism and Communication at Shandong Normal University in China. He was a post-doctoral fellow at Shandong University and the visiting scholar at University of Nottingham Ningbo. He holds a Ph.D. in Film and Television Studies from the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom.
