Chinese Film

Realism and Convention from the Silent Era to the Digital Age

Chinese Film
Jason McGrath
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h216 x 140mm - 424pg
31 Jan 2023 US
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9781517914035
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A tour de force chronicling the development of realism in Chinese cinema The history of Chinese cinema is as long and complicated as the tumultuous history of China itself. Be it the silent, the Communist, or the contemporary, each Chinese cinematic era has necessitated its own form in conversation with broader trends in politics and culture. In Chinese Film, Jason McGrath tells this fascinating story by tracing the varied claims to cinematic realism made by Chinese filmmakers, officials, critics, and scholars. Understanding realism as a historical dynamic that is both enabled and mitigated by aesthetic conventions of the day, he analyzes it across six different types of claims: ontological, perceptual, fictional, social, prescriptive, and apophatic. Through this method, McGrath makes major claims not just about Chinese cinema but also about realism as an aesthetic form that negotiates between cultural conventions and the ever-evolving real. He comes to envision it as more than just a cinematic question, showing how the struggle for realism is central to the Chinese struggle for modernity itself.
Jason McGrath is professor in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, where he also serves on the faculty in Moving Image, Media, and Sound Studies. He is author of Postsocialist Modernity: Chinese Cinema, Literature, and Criticism in the Market Age.
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ISBN-13: 9781517914035
Published: 31 Jan 2023
Published In: United States
Imprint: University of Minnesota Press
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Format: Paperback
Height: 216mm
Width: 140mm
Spine: 18mm
Weight: 567g
Pages: 424

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