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Chinese Independent Cinema: Past, Present, and a Questionable Future(7 Critical Asian Cinemas)

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Independent cinema in China is not only made outside the commercial system but also without being submitted for censorship. We know that for several decades it has been the crucible out of which China’s most exciting new films have flowed. The essays in this volume interrogate what else we think we know. Did it really start with Wu Wenguang and Bumming in Beijing in 1990, or can its roots be traced back much earlier? What are its aesthetics? And its ethics, including of gender and class? Where do audiences watch these films in China and how do they circulate? And, since the 2017 Film Law defined uncensored films as illegal, is independent Chinese cinema still alive? What does it mean today? And does it have a future? The essays in this anthology—many by exciting new scholars—explore these urgent questions.

Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations Introduction – Sabrina Qiong Yu, Chris Berry, Luke Robinson, and Lydia Wu Genealogies Chapter 1. The Soil and the Scar: A Genealogy of Photography and Documentary in Post-Mao China – Zoe Meng Jiang Chapter 2. Video Relics: Hu Jie and the Official Style – Maximilian Berwald Ethics and Aesthetics Chapter 3. Hu Bo’s Ethics of Realism – Cecília Mello Chapter 4. The Filmmaker as Feminist – Jinyan Zeng Chapter 5. Of Found Objects and Projected Things: The Relational Field in Wang Bing’s West of the Tracks and Ma Li’s Born in Beijing – Yün Peng Beside the Screen: Independent Cinema as Social Practice Chapter 6. In Dependence and in Relation: A Relational Sociological Approach to Chinese Independent Cinema – Seio Nakajima Chapter 7. Distribution and Exhibition of Independent Film in China: Informal Infrastructure and Its Affordances – Chris Berry, Luke Robinson, and Sabrina Qiong Yu Chapter 8. Mediating the New Alternative Film Culture: An Ethnographic Study of Post-Independent Exhibition Practices Since 2017 – Xiang Fan Chapter 9. Three Modes of Independent Creative Documentary Production and the Rise of the Industrial Mode – Kiki Tianqi Yu Community and Engagement Chapter 10. Cinematic Fabulation: Trans Representation in Miss Jin Xing – Hongwei Bao Chapter 11. Village Film and Place-Based Film Archive: Towards an Ecological and Archival Chinese Independent Documentary – Zimu Zhang Chapter 12. The Ethic of Collaboration: Rethinking Chinese Independent Cinema’s Engagement with Grassroots Creativity – Kaiyang Xu List of Contributors Index


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9789463722575
  • Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Amsterdam University Press
  • Height: 234 mm
  • No of Pages: 312
  • Sub Title: Past, Present, and a Questionable Future
  • ISBN-10: 9463722572
  • Publisher Date: 15 Apr 2025
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: 7 Critical Asian Cinemas
  • Width: 156 mm


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