Economy, Emotion, and Ethics in Chinese Cinema: Globalization on Speed

ISBN-13: 9781138019317 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 230 str.

David Leiwei Li

Opis

This book investigates major Chinese-language films from mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong in order to unpack a hyper-compressed capitalist modernity with distinctive Chinese characteristics. As a dialogue between the film genre as a mediation of microscopic social life, and the narrative of economic development as a macroscopic political abstraction, it engages the two otherwise remotely related worlds, illustrating how the State and the Subject are reconstituted cinematically in late capitalism.

Spis treści

Introduction: "Culture and Contemporary Chinese Cinema in the Second Coming of Capitalism" Part I: Homo Economicus: Individual Liberty and Market Dependency 1. "Primitive Accumulation and the Emergence of the Liberal Subject in the People’s Republic: Zhang Yimou’s Red Sorghum and Zhou Xiaowen’s Ermo" 2. "Crazy English with a Chinese Face: Zhang Yuan’s Documentary on the Neoliberal Pedagogy of the Self" Part II: Homo Sentimentalis: The Transformation of Family and Intimacy 3. Neoliberalism’s Family Values: (Re)production and (Re)creation in Ang Lee’s Trilogy and Zhang Yimou’s Happy Times 4. The Deregulation of Affect in Hou Hsiao-hsien and Yang De-chang Part III: Homo Ethicus: Towards Ecological Justice 5. "The World of Jia Zhangke Viewed: Neorealist Aesthetics against Neoliberal Logics" 6. "Abiding by Nature’s Time: The Cautionary of Cannibal Capitalism in Fruit Chan’s Dumplings"