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Chinese ecocinema in the age of environmental challenge

Title
Chinese ecocinema [electronic resource] : in the age of environmental challenge / edited by Sheldon H. Lu and Jiayan Mi.
Publication
Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, c2009.

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Additional Authors
  • Lu, Sheldon H.
  • Mi, Jiayan.
Description
1 online resource (xiii, 370 p.) : ill.
Uniform Title
Chinese ecocinema (Online)
Subject
  • Motion pictures > China > History > 20th century
  • Documentary films > China > History > 20th century
  • Environmentalism in motion pictures
  • Ecology in motion pictures
  • Environmental protection and motion pictures
  • Environmentalism > China
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes filmography (p. [329]-331).
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [333]-351) and index.
Access (note)
  • Access restricted to authorized users.
Contents
Hydro-politics : water, river, and national trauma. Framing ambient Unheimlich : ecoggedon, ecological unconscious, and water pathology in new Chinese cinema / Jiayan Mi -- Gorgeous Three Gorges at last sight : cinematic remembrance and the dialectic of modernization / Sheldon H. Lu -- Submerged ecology and depth psychology in Wushan yunyu : aesthetic insight into national development / Nick Kaldis -- Floating consciousness : the cinematic confluence of ecological aesthetics in Suzhou River / Andrew Hageman -- Eco-aesthetics, heteroscape, and manufactured landscape. The idea-image : conceptualizing landscape in recent martial arts movies / Mary Farquhar -- Façades : the new Beijing and the unsettled ecology of Jia Zhangke's The world / Jerome Silbergeld -- Ruins and grassroots : Jia Zhangke's cinematic discontents in the age of globalization / Hongbing Zhang -- Urban space in production and disappearance. Of humans and nature in documentary : the logic of capital in West of the tracks and Blind shaft / Ban Wang -- Toward a Hong Kong ecocinema : the dis-appearance of "nature" in three films by Fruit Chan / Chris Tong -- A city of disappearance : trauma, displacement, and spectral cityscape in contemporary Chinese cinema / Jing Nie -- Bioethics, non-anthropocentrism, and green sovereignty. In the face of developmental ruins : place attachment and its ethical claims / Xinmin Liu -- Ning Hao's Incense : a curious tale of earthly Buddhism / Xiaoping Lin -- Putting back the animals : woman-animal meme in contemporary Taiwanese ecofeminist imagination / Chia-ju Chang -- "Reconstructing the god-fearing community" : filming Tibet in the twenty-first century / Donghui He.
LCCN
2010525593
OCLC
ssj0000434399
Title
Chinese ecocinema [electronic resource] : in the age of environmental challenge / edited by Sheldon H. Lu and Jiayan Mi.
Imprint
Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, c2009.
Bibliography
Includes filmography (p. [329]-331).
Includes bibliographical references (p. [333]-351) and index.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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Available from home with a valid library card
Available onsite at NYPL
Added Author
Lu, Sheldon H.
Mi, Jiayan.
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