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Cinema, Space, and Polylocality in a Globalizing China (Critical Interventions) by Professor Yingjin Zhang is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Cinema, Space, and Polylocality in a Globalizing China (Critical Interventions) about?

In this milestone work, prominent China film scholar Yingjin Zhang proposes polylocality as a new conceptual framework for investigating the shifting spaces of contemporary Chinese cinema in the age of globalization. Questioning the national cinema paradigm, Zhang calls for comparative studies of underdeveloped areas beyond the imperative of transnationalism. The book begins by addressing theories and practices related to space, place, and polylocality in contemporary China before focusing on the space of scholarship and urging scholars to move beyond the current paradigm and explore transnational and comparative film studies. This is followed by a chapter that concentrates on the space of production and surveys the changing landscape of postsocialist filmmaking and the transformation of China's urban generation of directors. Next is an examination of the space of polylocality and the cinematic mappings of Beijing and a persistent reel contact with polylocality in hinterland China. In the fifth chapter Zhang explores the space of subjectivity in independent film and video and contextualizes experiments by young directors with various documentary styles. Chapter 6 calls attention to

Author

Professor Yingjin Zhang

Publisher

University of Hawaiʻi Press

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780824834081

Subjects

Performing Arts, Political Science, History