Contemporary chinese cinema and visual culture : Envisioning the Nation /
Lu, Sheldon H.,
Contemporary chinese cinema and visual culture : Envisioning the Nation / Sheldon H. Lu. - 1 online resource - Global East-Asian screen cultures .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Refashioning the Nation in Transnational Cinema and Art -- Part 1: Nationhood, Gender, Sexuality, Masculinity in Feature Film -- 1.Projecting the Chinese Nation on Domestic and Global Screens -- 2. Space, Mobility, Modernity: The Female Prostitute in Chinese-language Film -- 3. Re-orientations of Hong Kong Cinema and Transformations of Masculinity -- 4. Masculinity in Crisis: Male Characters in Jia Zhangke's Films -- Part 2. Multimedia Engagements with the Local, National, and Global -- 5. Peripheral, Underground, and Independent Cinema -- 6. Performing and Romancing the Other in Film, Television Drama, and Ballet -- 7. Reshaping Beijing's Space: Architecture, Art, Photography, Film -- 8. Artistic and Multimedia Interventions -- Conclusion: Globalization at Bay Filmography -- Bibliography -- Index.
"Sheldon Lu's wide-ranging new book investigates how filmmakers and visual artists from mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan have envisioned China as it transitions from a socialist to a globalized capitalist state. It examines how the modern nation has been refashioned and re-imagined in order to keep pace with globalization and transnationalism. At the heart of Lu's analysis is a double movement in the relationship between nation and transnationalism in the Chinese post-socialist state. He considers the complexity of how the Chinese economy is integrated in the global capitalist system while also remaining a repressive body politic with mechanisms of control and surveillance. He explores the interrelations of the local, the national, the subnational, and the global as China repositions itself in the world. Lu considers examples from feature and documentary film, mainstream and marginal cinema, and a variety of visual arts: photography, painting, digital video, architecture, and installation. His close case studies include representations of class, masculinity and sexuality in contemporary Taiwanese and Chinese cinema; the figure of the sex worker as a symbol of modernity and mobility; and artists' representations of Beijing at the time of the 2008 Olympics."--
9781350234215 1350234214 1350234192 9781350234208 1350234206 9781350234192
10.5040/9781350234215 doi
Olympic Games Beijing, China) 2008 : (29th :
Olympic Games.
1900-2099
Art, Chinese--Themes, motives.--20th century
Art and society--History--China--20th century.
Art and society--History--China--21st century.
Art--Political aspects--China.
Art--Economic aspects--China.
Motion pictures--Political aspects--China--20th century.
Motion pictures--History--China--Hong Kong--20th century.
Motion pictures--History--Taiwan--20th century.
Sex role in art.
Sex workers--Themes, motives.
Olympics in art.
Public art--China--Beijing.
Film & Media.
World Cinema (Film & Media)
Asian Film and Media (Asia Studies)
Asian Art History and Visual Culture (Asia Studies)
Films, cinema.
Art and society.
Art, Chinese--Themes, motives.
Art--Economic aspects.
Art--Political aspects.
Motion pictures.
Motion pictures--Political aspects.
Olympics in art.
Public art.
Sex role in art.
China.
China--Beijing.
China--Hong Kong.
Taiwan.
History.
Electronic books.
N7345 / .L82 2021
709.51
Contemporary chinese cinema and visual culture : Envisioning the Nation / Sheldon H. Lu. - 1 online resource - Global East-Asian screen cultures .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Refashioning the Nation in Transnational Cinema and Art -- Part 1: Nationhood, Gender, Sexuality, Masculinity in Feature Film -- 1.Projecting the Chinese Nation on Domestic and Global Screens -- 2. Space, Mobility, Modernity: The Female Prostitute in Chinese-language Film -- 3. Re-orientations of Hong Kong Cinema and Transformations of Masculinity -- 4. Masculinity in Crisis: Male Characters in Jia Zhangke's Films -- Part 2. Multimedia Engagements with the Local, National, and Global -- 5. Peripheral, Underground, and Independent Cinema -- 6. Performing and Romancing the Other in Film, Television Drama, and Ballet -- 7. Reshaping Beijing's Space: Architecture, Art, Photography, Film -- 8. Artistic and Multimedia Interventions -- Conclusion: Globalization at Bay Filmography -- Bibliography -- Index.
"Sheldon Lu's wide-ranging new book investigates how filmmakers and visual artists from mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan have envisioned China as it transitions from a socialist to a globalized capitalist state. It examines how the modern nation has been refashioned and re-imagined in order to keep pace with globalization and transnationalism. At the heart of Lu's analysis is a double movement in the relationship between nation and transnationalism in the Chinese post-socialist state. He considers the complexity of how the Chinese economy is integrated in the global capitalist system while also remaining a repressive body politic with mechanisms of control and surveillance. He explores the interrelations of the local, the national, the subnational, and the global as China repositions itself in the world. Lu considers examples from feature and documentary film, mainstream and marginal cinema, and a variety of visual arts: photography, painting, digital video, architecture, and installation. His close case studies include representations of class, masculinity and sexuality in contemporary Taiwanese and Chinese cinema; the figure of the sex worker as a symbol of modernity and mobility; and artists' representations of Beijing at the time of the 2008 Olympics."--
9781350234215 1350234214 1350234192 9781350234208 1350234206 9781350234192
10.5040/9781350234215 doi
Olympic Games Beijing, China) 2008 : (29th :
Olympic Games.
1900-2099
Art, Chinese--Themes, motives.--20th century
Art and society--History--China--20th century.
Art and society--History--China--21st century.
Art--Political aspects--China.
Art--Economic aspects--China.
Motion pictures--Political aspects--China--20th century.
Motion pictures--History--China--Hong Kong--20th century.
Motion pictures--History--Taiwan--20th century.
Sex role in art.
Sex workers--Themes, motives.
Olympics in art.
Public art--China--Beijing.
Film & Media.
World Cinema (Film & Media)
Asian Film and Media (Asia Studies)
Asian Art History and Visual Culture (Asia Studies)
Films, cinema.
Art and society.
Art, Chinese--Themes, motives.
Art--Economic aspects.
Art--Political aspects.
Motion pictures.
Motion pictures--Political aspects.
Olympics in art.
Public art.
Sex role in art.
China.
China--Beijing.
China--Hong Kong.
Taiwan.
History.
Electronic books.
N7345 / .L82 2021
709.51