Corey Kai Nelson Schultz

Moving Figures (eBook, PDF)

Class and Feeling in the Films of Jia Zhangke

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Produktbeschreibung

This book focuses on how the Reform Era'' has been constructed in the work of the director Jia Zhangke, analysing the archetypal class figures of worker, peasant, soldier, intellectual and entrepreneur that are found in his films.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474421621
• Artikelnr.: 72412616

Autorenporträt

Corey Kai Nelson Schultz is Associate Professor at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China. He received his PhD from Goldsmiths, University of London, and his research areas are Chinese visual culture, film phenomenology and aesthetics. He has published in Asian Cinema, Film-Philosophy, Moving Image Review and Art Journal, Screen and Visual Communication.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Approach to Feeling
Class in China
Class Figures and Their Effects
Chapter Outlines
Chapter 1 - The Worker Class: From Leader To The Margins
Introduction
History of the Class
Representation
Cinematic Tropes: Moving Portraits and Interviews
Chapter 2 - The Peasant and the Mingong: From Empathy to Sympathy to
Looking Back
Introduction
History of the Class
Representation
Cinematic Tropes: The POV Shot, Observation, Body, and the Gaze
Chapter 3 - The Soldier: From Degraded Reproduction to Avenging Hero
Introduction
History of the Class
Representation
Cinematic Tropes: Wuxia and The Close-Up
Chapter 4 - The Intellectual: Power and the Voice
Introduction
History of the Class
Representation
Cinematic Tropes: Pseudomonologues and Observation
Chapter 5 - The Entrepreneur: From Crook to "New Reform Model"
Introduction
History of the Class
Representation
Cinematic Tropes: Advertisements and the Close-Up
Filmography
Works Cited
Notes