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Allegory of Social Landscape Author: Zhang Xudong Publisher: Shanghai People's Publishing House Subtitle: Chinese Film Culture 1988-2015
Allegory of Social Landscape Author: Zhang Xudong Publisher: Shanghai People's Publishing House Subtitle: Chinese Film Culture 1988-2015
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Introduction · · · · · ·
★From Chen Kaige to Jia Zhangke, how did Chinese films enter the world stage?
★Review the history of contemporary Chinese films and sort out the national fables on the screen.
★They claim to be the legislators of the new national cinema. They are always prepared to subvert the existing order. Their success is still an example worthy of in-depth study in the history of world cinema.
This book collects Zhang Xudong's film research and criticism articles since 1988. The book focuses on the "New Chinese Cinema" that began to rise in the mid-to-late 1980s. Since this era, Chinese films have begun to examine their own history, take stock of the cultural resources of national films, explore strategies for aesthetic breakthroughs, and strive to learn the new "modern world film language" in order to make their own voices and "go global."
In the book, Zhang Xudong mainly analyzes the "Fifth Generation" films, and provides narrative analysis and critical interpretation of famous works such as "Red Sorghum", "The King of Children", "Qiu Ju Goes to Court", and "Furong Town", as well as the works of the "Sixth Generation" directors represented by Jia Zhangke. Combining them with China's social and historical context, he explores how history is re-presented on the screen, the position of the fifth and sixth generation directors in the national cultural landscape overseas and at home, and the position of film modernism in the stage of social and consciousness change, etc.
About the Author · · · · · ·
Zhang Xudong is a professor in the Department of Comparative Literature and the Department of East Asian Studies at New York University (NYU), and the director of the International Center for Critical Theory. He has also served as a visiting professor of the "Zijiang Lecture" at East China Normal University; a "Changjiang Scholar" lecture professor, a humanities chair professor (visiting), and the director of the International Center for Critical Theory at Peking University. His Chinese works include "Chinese Modernism in the Reform Era - The 1980s as Spiritual History", "Globalization and Cultural Politics - China in the 1990s and the End of the 20th Century", "Writing in Our Time", "Dialogue with the Age of Enlightenment", and "New York Letters". He has translated "Lyric Poets in the Age of Advanced Capitalism" and "Enlightenment". He has edited "The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism" and "Tradition and Formal Creativity".
Table of contents · · · · · ·
——An attempt to grasp the "New Chinese Cinema" The generation of "modern film language" —— The ideological aesthetic strategy of the "Fifth Generation" film The allegory of social landscape —— A critical interpretation of Chen Kaige's "The King of Children" The utopia and ideology of "Red Sorghum" The narrative and legitimacy of images Humanism as a political allegory —— Rereading "Furong Town"
Narrative, Culture and Legitimacy: Repetition and Allegory in Qiu Ju's Lawsuit Trauma, Narrative and Memory: A Review of Tian Zhuangzhuang's The Blue Kite
The Lost Poetics: Jia Zhangke's Film Creation Appendix Historical Conflicts in Film Narratives: On The Last Emperor
Watching Heroes in New York
Song of Everlasting Regret
——What is Xiangzi from the novel to the stage?
——Comment on the opera "Camel Xiangzi"
Juyi Hall or Peach Blossom Spring?
——Review of Guan Hu's "Old Cannon"
