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Ecology and Chinese-language cinema : reimagining a field

Title: Ecology and Chinese-language cinema : reimagining a field / by Sheldon H. Lu and Haomin Gong.
Publication: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.

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Description

xi, 242 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

"This edited collection explores new developments in the burgeoning field of Chinese ecocinema, examining a variety of works from local productions to global market films, spanning the Maoist era to the present. The ten chapters examine films with ecological significance in mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, including documentaries, feature films, blockbusters and independent productions. Covering not only well-known works, such as Under the Dome, Wolf Totem, Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracts, and Mermaid, this book also provides analysis of less well-known but critically important works, such as Anchorage Prohibited, Luzon, and Three Flower/Tri-Color. The unique perspectives this book provides, along with the comprehensive engagement with existing Chinese and English scholarship, not only extend the scope of the growing field of ecocinematic studies, but also seeks to reform the means through which Chinese-language eco-films are understood in the years to come. Ecology and Chinese-Language Ecocinema will be of huge interest to students and scholars in the fields of Chinese cinema, environmental studies, media and communication studies"--

Series Statement

Routledge contemporary China series ; 208

Uniform Title

Routledge contemporary China series ; 208.

Subjects

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction : revisiting the field of Chinese ecocinema / Haomin Gong -- Mapping Taiwanese ecodocumentary landscape : politics of aesthetics and environmental ethics in Taiwanese ecodocumentaries / Kuei-fen Chiu -- Nature in the city : a study of Hong Kong Independent Eco-Cinema and Eco-Film Festival / Winnie L. M. Yee -- Three ecologies of cinema, migration, and the sea : Anchorage prohibited and Luzon / Elizebath Wijaya -- Tracing extraction in contemporary Chinese cinema : Tie Xi Qu and the politics of the resource image / Pietari Kääpä -- Chai Jing's Under the Dome : A Multimedia Documentary in the digital age / Shuqin Cui -- Global animal capital and animal garbage : documentary redemption and hope / Chia-ju Chang -- Transcendence and transgression : reading wolf totem as environmental world literature/cinema? / Haomin Gong -- Fabulating animals-human affinity : towards an ethics of care in monster hunt and mermaid / Fiona Yuk-wa Law -- Sinification by greening : politics, nature, and ethnic borderlands in Maoist ecocinema / Cheng Li -- No man's land : cco-Western in contemporary Chinese cinema / Kun Qian.

Call Number

MFL 20-2579

ISBN

9780367281083
0367281082
9780429316869 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2019029078

OCLC

1127253479

Title

Ecology and Chinese-language cinema : reimagining a field / by Sheldon H. Lu and Haomin Gong.

Publisher

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Routledge contemporary China series ; 208

Routledge contemporary China series ; 208.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Biography

Sheldon Lu is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Davis, USA. He is the author, editorand co-editor of a dozen books in English and Chinese, including Chinese Ecocinema in the Age of Environmental Challenge (2009, co-editor with Jiayan Mi). Haomin Gong is Associate Professor of Chinese at Lingnan University, Hong Kong. He is the author of Uneven Modernity: Literature, Film, and Intellectual Discourse in Postsocialist China (2012) and Reconfiguring Class, Gender, Ethnicity and Ethics in Chinese Internet Culture (2017).

Local Note

ED: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS. PREV. PUB. AS 11.1 (MARCH 2017) JOURNAL OF CHINESE CINEMA.

Added Author

Lu, Sheldon H., editor.

Gong, Haomin, editor.

Research Call Number

MFL 20-2579

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