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Close-ups and Long Shots in Modern Chinese Cinemas (Paperback)
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Close-ups and Long Shots in Modern Chinese Cinemas (Paperback)
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Two of the most stylized shots in cinema - the close-up and the
long shot - embody distinct attractions. The iconicity of the
close-up magnifies the affective power of faces and elevates film
to the discourse of art. The depth of the long shot, in contrast,
indexes the facts of life and reinforces our faith in reality. Each
configures the relation between image and distance that expands the
viewer's power to see, feel, and conceive. To understand why a
director prefers one type of shot over the other then is to explore
more than aesthetics: It uncovers significant assumptions about
film as an art of intervention or organic representation. Close-ups
and Long Shots in Modern Chinese Cinemas is the first book to
compare these two shots within the cultural, historical, and
cinematic traditions that produced them. In particular, the global
revival of Confucian studies and the transnational appeal of
feminism in the 1980s marked a new turn in the composite cultural
education of Chinese directors whose shot selections can be seen as
not only stylistic expressions, but ethical choices responding to
established norms about self-restraint, ritualism, propriety, and
female agency. Each of the films discussed - Zhang Yimou's Red
Sorghum, Ang Lee's Lust, Caution, Hou Hsiao-Hsien's The Assassin,
Jia Zhangke's I Wish I Knew, and Wei Desheng's Cape No. 7 -
represents a watershed in Chinese cinemas that redefines the
evolving relations among film, politics, and ethics. Together these
works provide a comprehensive picture of how directors
contextualize close-ups and long shots in ways that make them
interpretable across many films as bellwethers of social change.
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Imprint: |
University of Hawaii Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
October 2020 |
Authors: |
Hsiu-Chuang Deppman
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152mm (L x W) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
192 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8248-8580-9 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
0-8248-8580-5 |
Barcode: |
9780824885809 |
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