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China on Film - A Century of Exploration, Confrontation, and Controversy (Paperback)
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China on Film - A Century of Exploration, Confrontation, and Controversy (Paperback)
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Leading scholar Paul G. Pickowicz traces the dynamic history of
Chinese filmmaking and discusses its course of development from the
early days to the present. Moving decade by decade, he explores
such key themes as the ever-shifting definitions of modern marriage
in 1920s silent features, East-West cultural conflict in the movies
of the 1930s, the strong appeal of the powerful melodramatic mode
of the 1930s and 1940s, the polarizing political controversies
surrounding Chinese filmmaking under the Japanese occupation of
Shanghai in the 1940s, and the critical role of cinema during the
bloody civil war of the late 1940s. Pickowicz then considers the
challenging Mao years, including chapters on legendary screen
personalities who tried but failed to adjust to the new socialist
order in the 1950s, celebrities who made the sort of artistic and
political accommodations that would keep them in the spotlight in
the post-revolutionary era, and insider film professionals of the
early 1960s who actively resisted the most extreme forms of Maoist
cultural production. The book concludes with explorations of the
highly cathartic films of the early post-Mao era, edgy
postsocialist movies that appeared on the eve of the Tiananmen
demonstrations of 1989, the relevance of the Eastern European
"velvet prison" cultural production model, and the rise of
underground and independent filmmaking beginning in the 1990s.
Throughout its long history of film production, China has been
embroiled in a seemingly unending series of wars, revolutions, and
jarring social transformations. Despite daunting censorship
obstacles, Chinese filmmakers have found ingenious ways of taking
political stands and weighing in-for better or worse-on the most
explosive social, cultural, and economic issues of the day.
Exploring the often gut-wrenching controversies generated by their
work, Pickowicz offers a unique and perceptive window on Chinese
culture and society.
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