Filming the Everyday -

Filming the Everyday

Independent Documentaries in Twenty-First-Century China
Buch | Softcover
212 Seiten
2016
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-1-4422-7024-4 (ISBN)
44,85 inkl. MwSt
This cutting-edge book examines the rapidly developing scene of Chinese independent documentary, arguably the most courageous player in contemporary Chinese visual culture.
The book’s emphasis on current issues and its discussion of aesthetic experiments will appeal to all readers interested in China’s culture, media, politics, and society.
This cutting-edge book examines the rapidly developing scene of Chinese independent documentary, arguably the most courageous player in contemporary Chinese visual culture. The authors explore two areas that are of special interest to China studies and film studies, respectively: (1) filming the everyday in twenty-first-century China to foreground contestation and diversity and (2) exploring the aesthetic of remembering in an embodied documentary practice, which turns the gaze on artists themselves and encourages the viewer’s engagement with the filmed subjects and environment. Highlighting documentary contestation in China, the book traces its cacophony of expressions, some of it featuring confrontations with domineering elites, some of it highlighting negotiations among the independent filmmakers themselves. Their goal is not a “movement” that seeks to establish and impose a single truth, but rather a creative dynamic that fosters a community of tolerance and respects diverse forms of expression. Independent documentary is quite literally a moving target that is witnessing ongoing and widening diversity and complexity when it comes to directors, themes, aesthetics, human subjects, audiences, and impact. The authors stress the enormous potential of cultural production that features non-elites (including amateurs) and that dwells on the everyday, the bottom up, the grassroots, the seemingly mundane, and the apparently marginal. The book’s emphasis on contemporary issues and its discussion of aesthetic experiments will appeal to all readers interested in China’s culture, media, politics, and society.

Paul G. Pickowicz is Distinguished Professor of History and Chinese Studies at the University of California, San Diego. Yingjin Zhang is Distinguished Professor of Literature and Chinese Studies at the University of California, San Diego.

Acknowledgments

Part I: Cultural Context
1. Introduction: Documenting China Independently, by Paul G. Pickowicz and Yingjin Zhang
2. Who’s Afraid of the Documentary Camera? Refiguring Reality, Memory, and Power in Chinese Independent Documentary, by Yingjin Zhang
3. For Whom Does the Director Speak? The Ethics of Representation in Documentary Film Criticism, by Yomi Braester,

Part II: Rural Reconfigurations
4. From Root-Searching to Grassroots: Returning to the Countryside in Contemporary Chinese Fiction and Independent Documentary Film, by Angie Chau
5. Zou Xueping’s Postsocialist Homecoming, by Paul G. Pickowicz

Part III: Embodied Filmmaking
6. Looking Back while Marching Forward: Reconfiguration of Selfhood in the Folk Memory Project, by Tong Wang
7. The Memory Project and Other Ways of Knowing: Filmmaking, Affect, and Embodied Knowledge, by Laura Kissel

Part IV: Documentary Enactments
8. Gendering Intersubjectivity in New Chinese Documentary: Feminist Multiplicity and Vulnerable Masculinity in Postsocialist China, by Alvin Wong
9. From Bumming to Roaming: Xu Tong’s The Drifters Trilogy, by Yiman Wang
10. Documenting through Reenacting: Revisiting the Performative Mode in Chinese Independent Documentaries, by Hongjian Wang

Appendix: Michael Berry, “Memory/Document: In Dialogue with Wu Wenguang’s Memory Project”
Documentary Filmography
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Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort Lanham, MD
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 227 mm
Gewicht 299 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Film / TV
Sachbuch/Ratgeber Geschichte / Politik Allgemeines / Lexika
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10 1-4422-7024-1 / 1442270241
ISBN-13 978-1-4422-7024-4 / 9781442270244
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