An edition of The new Chinese documentary film movement (2010)

The new Chinese documentary film movement

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by Chris Berry

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An edition of The new Chinese documentary film movement (2010)

The new Chinese documentary film movement

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The New Chinese Documentary Film Movement is a groundbreaking project unveiling recent documentary film work that has transformed visual culture in China, and brought new immediacy along with a broader base of participation to Chinese media. As a foundational text, this volume provides a much-needed introduction to the topic of Chinese documentary film, the signature mode of contemporary Chinese visual culture. These essays examine how documentary filmmakers have opened up a unique new space of social commentary and critique in an era of rapid social changes amid globalization and marketization.

The essays cover topics ranging from cruelty in documentary to the representation of Beijing; gay, lesbian and queer documentary; sound in documentary; the exhibition context in China; authorial intervention and subjectivity; and the distinctive "on the spot" aesthetics of contemporary Chinese documentary. This volume will be critical reading for scholars in disciplines ranging from film and media studies to Chinese studies and Asian studies. --Book Jacket.

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2010

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Hong Kong University Press

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English

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304

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Part I. Historical overview. Introduction / Chris Berry and Lisa Rofel ; Rethinking China's new documentary movement : engagement with the social / Lu Xinyu, translated by Tan Jia and Lisa Rofel, edited by Lisa Rofel and Chris Berry ; DV : individual filmmaking / Wu Wenguang, translated by Cathryn Clayton

Part II. Documenting marginalization, or identities new and old. West of the tracks : history and class-consciousness / Lu Xinyu, translated by J.X. Zhang ; Coming out of The box, marching as dykes / Chao Shi-Yan

Part III. Publics, counter-publics, and alternative publics. Blowup Beijing : the city as a twilight zone / Paola Voci ; Watching documentary : critical public discourses and contemporary urban Chinese film clubs / Seio Nakajima ; Alternative archive : China's independent documentary culture / Chris Berry and Lisa Rofel

Part IV. Between filmmaker and subject : re-creating realism. Translating the unspeakable : on-screen and off-screen voices in Wu Wenguang's documentary work / Bérénice Reynaud ; From "public" to "private" : Chinese documentary and the logic of xianchang / Luke Robinson ; Excuse me, your camera is in my face : auteurial intervention in PRC new documentary / Yomi Braester ; "I am one of them" and "they are my actors" : performing, witnessing, and DV image-making in plebian China / Yiman Wang.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-284)and index.

Published in: Hong Kong

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Library of Congress: PN1995.9.D6 N3775 2010, PN1995.9.D6 N49 2010, PN1995.9.D6 N48 2010, PN1995.9.D6

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Pagination: xiii, 304 p. :
Number of pages: 304

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Open Library: OL25062946M
Internet Archive: newchinesedocume0000unse
ISBN 10: 9888028510, 9888028529
ISBN 13: 9789888028511, 9789888028528
LCCN: 2011456534
OCLC/WorldCat: 613433347

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The new Chinese documentary film movement

for the public record

by Chris Berry