Ecology and Chinese-Language Cinema: Reimagining a Field

ISBN-13: 9781032087894 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 256 str.

Sheldon H. Lu; Haomin Gong

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Introduction: Revisiting the Field of Chinese Ecocinema  Part 1: Eco-Documentaries and Eco-Festivals  1. Mapping Taiwanese Ecodocumentary Landscape: Politics of Aesthetics and Environmental Ethics in Taiwanese Ecodocumentaries  2. Nature in the City: A Study of Hong Kong Independent Eco-Cinema and Eco-Film Festival  Part 2: Contemporary Ecologies  3. Three Ecologies of Cinema, Migration, and the Sea: Anchorage Prohibited and Luzon  4. Tracing Extraction in Contemporary Chinese Cinema: Tie Xi Qu and the politics of the resource image  5. Chai Jing’s Under the Dome: A Multimedia Documentary in the Digital Age  Part 3: Humans and Animals  6. Global Animal Capital and Animal Garbage: Documentary Redemption and Hope  7. Transcendence and Transgression: Reading Wolf Totem as Environmental World Literature/Cinema?  8. Fabulating Animals-Human Affinity: Towards an Ethics of Care in Monster Hunt and Mermaid  Part 4: Landscape and Nation  9. Sinification by Greening: Politics, Nature, and Ethnic Borderlands in Maoist Ecocinema  10. No Man’s Land: Eco-Western in Contemporary Chinese Cinema

O autorze

Sheldon Lu is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Davis, USA. He is the author, editor and 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).