LEADER 00000cam a2200781 a 4500 001 748329969 003 OCoLC 005 20170410012043.0 007 cr cnunnn|uu|u 008 111024s2012 mdua b 001 0 eng 010 2011041693 019 892590929 020 9781442211780|q(cloth ;|qalk. paper) 020 1442211784|q(cloth ;|qalk. paper) 020 9781442211803|q(electronic) 020 1442211806|q(electronic) 020 9781442211797 020 1442211792 040 DLC|beng|cDLC|dYDX|dBTCTA|dYDXCP|dBWX|dCDX|dBDX|dYHM|dI8H |dOCLCQ|dCHVBK|dOCLCF|dOCLCQ|dOCL|dERL|dCUY 042 pcc 043 a-cc--- 050 00 PN1993.5.C4|bP53 2012 082 00 791.43095109/04|223 100 1 Pickowicz, Paul. 245 10 China on film :|ba century of exploration, confrontation, and controversy /|cPaul G. Pickowicz. 260 Lanham :|bRowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.,|c2012. 300 x, 365 pages :|billustrations ;|c24 cm 336 text|btxt|2rdacontent 337 unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 338 volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 504 Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 Introduction: the sorrows and joys of Chinese filmmaking: political and personal contexts -- Shanghai twenties: early Chinese cinematic explorations of the modern marriage -- The theme of spiritual pollution in Chinese films of the 1930s -- Melodramatic representation and the "May fourth" tradition of Chinese filmmaking -- Never- ending controversies: the case of remorse in Shanghai and occupation-era Chinese filmmaking -- Victory as defeat: postwar visualizations of China's war of resistance -- Acting like revolutionaries: Shi Hui, The Wenhua Studio, and private-sector filmmaking, 1949-1952 -- Zheng Junli, complicity, and the cultural history of socialist China, 1949-1976 -- The limits of thaw: Chinese cinema in the early 1960s -- Popular cinema and political thought in early Post-Mao China: reflections on official pronouncements, film, and the film audience -- On the eve of Tiananmen: Huang Jianxin and the notion of postsocialism -- Velvet prison and the political economy of Chinese filmmaking in the late 1980s and early 1990s -- Social and political dynamics of underground filmmaking in early twenty-first century China. 506 Pacific Film Archive collection; non-circulating.|5CBPF. 520 Reading 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 Chin. 648 7 1900-1999|2fast 650 0 Motion picture industry|zChina|xHistory|y20th century. 650 0 Motion pictures|xPolitical aspects|zChina|xHistory|y20th century. 650 0 Motion pictures|xSocial aspects|zChina|xHistory|y20th century. 650 7 Motion picture industry.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01027150 650 7 Motion pictures.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01027285 650 7 Motion pictures|xPolitical aspects.|2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01027353 650 7 Motion pictures|xSocial aspects.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01027384 650 7 Film.|0(DE-588)4017102-4|2gnd 650 7 Film.|2idszbz 650 7 Filmwirtschaft.|2idszbz 651 0 China|xIn motion pictures. 651 7 China.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01206073 651 7 China.|0(DE-588)4009937-4|2gnd 651 7 China.|2idszbz 655 7 History.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01411628 856 41 |3Dawsonera|uhttp://www.dawsonera.com/depp/reader/ protected/external/AbstractView/S9781442211803 956 20170410 |bpfmcq|cCC 957 OCLC xref loaded 20170423 994 C0|bCUY