Economy, Emotion, and Ethics in Chinese Cinema : Globalization on Speed Paperback / softback
by David Leiwei Li
Part of the Routledge Contemporary China Series series
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The First and Second Comings of capitalism are conceptual shorthands used to capture the radical changes in global geopolitics from the Opium War to the end of the Cold War and beyond.
Centring the role of capitalism in the Chinese everyday, the framework can be employed to comprehend contemporary Chinese culture in general and, as in this study, Chinese cinema in particular. This book investigates major Chinese-language films from mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong in order to unpack a hyper-compressed capitalist modernity with distinctive Chinese characteristics.
As a dialogue between the film genre as a mediation of microscopic social life, and the narrative of economic development as a macroscopic political abstraction, it engages the two otherwise remotely related worlds, illustrating how the State and the Subject are reconstituted cinematically in late capitalism.
A deeply cultural, determinedly historical, and deliberately interdisciplinary study, it approaches "culture" anthropologically, as a way of life emanating from the everyday, and aesthetically, as imaginative forms and creative expressions. Economy, Emotion, and Ethics in Chinese Cinema will appeal to students and scholars of Chinese cinema, cultural studies, Asian studies, and interdisciplinary studies of politics and culture.
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- Pages:246 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:24/05/2017
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:246 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:24/05/2017
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- ISBN:9781138019317