Chinese Film: Realism and Convention from the Silent Era to the Digital Age - Jason McGrath - Libros - University of Minnesota Press - 9781517914035 - 31 de enero de 2023
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Chinese Film: Realism and Convention from the Silent Era to the Digital Age


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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 Cinema, 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.


424 pages, 67 black and white illustrations

Medios de comunicación Libros     Paperback Book   (Libro con tapa blanda y lomo encolado)
Publicado 31 de enero de 2023
ISBN13 9781517914035
Editores University of Minnesota Press
Páginas 424
Dimensiones 215 × 140 × 26 mm   ·   534 g

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