Overview
- Provides first comprehensive historical account of the 1990s Chinese art wave, encompassing both institutional and aesthetic analyses
- Offers a new interpretation of the early Sixth Generation Cinema and a correction to the overtly political readings of Chinese art films in some previous scholarly and journalistic discourses
- Proposes "art film" as a central theoretical concept to films of the period for the first time
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Institutions
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
The Formation of Chinese Art Cinema: 1990–2003 examines the development of Chinese art film in the People’s Republic of China from 1990, when the first Sixth Generation film Mama was released, to 2003, when authorities acknowledged the legitimacy of underground filmmakers. Through an exploration of the production and consecration mechanisms of the new art wave and its representative styles, this book argues that the art wave of the 1990s fundamentally defined Chinese art cinema. In particular, this vital art wave was not enabled by democratic liberalism, but by the specific industrial development, in which the film system transitioned from Socialist propaganda into a commercialized entity. Allowing Chinese art film to grow but at the same time denying its legitimacy, this paradoxical transition process shaped Chinese art film’s institutional and aesthetical alternative positioning, which eventually helped consolidate the art wave into art cinema. Ultimately, this bookis a history of the Chinese portion of global art cinema, which also reveals the complex Chinese cultural experiences during the Reform Era.
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Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Li Yang is Assistant Professor of Chinese in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures and the Program of Asian Studies at Lafayette College, USA.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Formation of Chinese Art Cinema
Book Subtitle: 1990–2003
Authors: Li Yang
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97211-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-97210-7Published: 13 November 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-40524-3Published: 22 February 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-97211-4Published: 31 October 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 228
Number of Illustrations: 20 illustrations in colour
Topics: Asian Cinema and TV, Asian Culture, Film Theory, Film History, Genre