Chinese-German Female-Themed Art Film Culture in the Context of Globalization
Title | Chinese-German Female-Themed Art Film Culture in the Context of Globalization PDF eBook |
Author | Ning Xu |
Publisher | Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH |
Pages | 416 |
Release | 2022-08-01 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 3832554807 |
In the context of globalization, this book explores female-themed art films from China and Germany, in order to seek and illustrate how the cultural difference between the ways of representing women and narrating women's themes is shown in the films of both countries.
Chinese-German Female-Themed Art Film Culture in the Context of Globalization
Title | Chinese-German Female-Themed Art Film Culture in the Context of Globalization PDF eBook |
Author | Ning Xu |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2022 |
Genre | Women in motion pictures |
ISBN | 9783832584290 |
A Comparative Study of Female-Themed Art Films from China and Germany
Title | A Comparative Study of Female-Themed Art Films from China and Germany PDF eBook |
Author | Ning Xu |
Publisher | Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH |
Pages | 347 |
Release | 2017-01-17 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 3832544046 |
This book explores female-themed art films from China and Germany and seeks to illustrate how the cultural difference between the ways of representing women and narrating women's themes is shown in both countries' films, by means of analyzing two film elements: mise-en-scène and cinematography. This book analyzes female-themed art films in five topics: Marriage and Love, Birth and Motherhood, Professional Women and Housewives, Death and Despair, and Dreams and Destiny.
Children of Marx and Coca-Cola
Title | Children of Marx and Coca-Cola PDF eBook |
Author | Xiaoping Lin |
Publisher | University of Hawaii Press |
Pages | 330 |
Release | 2009-11-02 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0824837630 |
Children of Marx and Coca-Cola affords a deep study of Chinese avant-garde art and independent cinema from the mid-1990s to the beginning of the twenty-first century. Informed by the author’s experience in Beijing and New York—global cities with extensive access to an emergent transnational Chinese visual culture—this work situates selected artworks and films in the context of Chinese nationalism and post-socialism and against the background of the capitalist globalization that has so radically affected contemporary China. It juxtaposes and compares artists and independent filmmakers from a number of intertwined perspectives, particularly in their shared avant-garde postures and perceptions. Xiaoping Lin provides illuminating close readings of a variety of visual texts and artistic practices, including installation, performance, painting, photography, video, and film. Throughout he sustains a theoretical discussion of representative artworks and films and succeeds in delineating a variegated postsocialist cultural landscape saturated by market forces, confused values, and lost faith. This refreshing approach is due to Lin’s ability to tackle both Chinese art and cinema rigorously within a shared discursive space. He, for example, aptly conceptualizes a central thematic concern in both genres as "postsocialist trauma" aggravated by capitalist globalization. By thus focusing exclusively on the two parallel and often intersecting movements or phenomena in the visual arts, his work brings about a fruitful dialogue between the narrow field of traditional art history and visual studies more generally. Children of Marx and Coca-Cola will be a major contribution to China studies, art history, film studies, and cultural studies. Multiple audiences—specialists, teachers, and students in these disciplines, as well as general readers with an interest in contemporary Chinese society and culture—will find that this work fulfills an urgent need for sophisticated analysis of China’s cultural production as it assumes a key role in capitalist globalization.
A Comparative Study of Female-Themed Art Films from China and Germany
Title | A Comparative Study of Female-Themed Art Films from China and Germany PDF eBook |
Author | Ning Xu |
Publisher | |
Pages | 347 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9783832599799 |
The Politics of Images
Title | The Politics of Images PDF eBook |
Author | Hongmei Yu |
Publisher | |
Pages | 636 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Globalization |
ISBN | 9780549770244 |
Chinese Women’s Cinema
Title | Chinese Women’s Cinema PDF eBook |
Author | Lingzhen Wang |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Pages | 449 |
Release | 2011-08-30 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 0231527446 |
The first of its kind in English, this collection explores twenty one well established and lesser known female filmmakers from mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the Chinese diaspora. Sixteen scholars illuminate these filmmakers' negotiations of local and global politics, cinematic representation, and issues of gender and sexuality, covering works from the 1920s to the present. Writing from the disciplines of Asian, women's, film, and auteur studies, contributors reclaim the work of Esther Eng, Tang Shu Shuen, Dong Kena, and Sylvia Chang, among others, who have transformed Chinese cinematic modernity. Chinese Women's Cinema is a unique, transcultural, interdisciplinary conversation on authorship, feminist cinema, transnational gender, and cinematic agency and representation. Lingzhen Wang's comprehensive introduction recounts the history and limitations of established feminist film theory, particularly its relationship with female cinematic authorship and agency. She also reviews critiques of classical feminist film theory, along with recent developments in feminist practice, altogether remapping feminist film discourse within transnational and interdisciplinary contexts. Wang's subsequent redefinition of women's cinema, and brief history of women's cinematic practices in modern China, encourage the reader to reposition gender and cinema within a transnational feminist configuration, such that power and knowledge are reexamined among and across cultures and nation-states.