Ideology and Utopia in China's New Wave Cinema Globalization and Its Chinese Discontents /

• Main Author: Wang, Xiaoping (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Chinese Literature and Culture in the World
• Subjects: Oriental literature.; Motion pictures-Asia.; Asian Literature.; Asian Cinema and TV.

Ideology and Utopia in China's New Wave Cinema investigates the ways in which New Wave filmmakers represent China in this age of neoliberal reform. Analyzing this paradigm shift in independent cinema, this text explores the historicity of the cinematic form and its cultural-political visions. T...

Table of Contents:

• 1. China's "New Wave Cinema" in the Era of Globalization
• 2. The Arrival of Post-Socialism: Silence, Sound and Fury
• 3. The Fate and Fantasy of China's "New Poor"
• 4. The Taste and Tragedy of China's "Middle Class"
• 5. Memoire of Socialism and the Chinese Enlightenment
• 6. Elitism of Populism? The Problematic of Imagining the Other
• 7. The Politics of Dignity and the Destiny of China's New Wave Cinema.