The Cinema of Jia Zhangke: Realism and Memory in Chinese Film

ISBN-13: 9781784538156 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 320 str.

Cecilia Mallo

Opis

A new study of leading Chinese director Jia Zhangke's cinema, focussing on his often realist aesthetic and his representation of China past and present.

Spis treści

1. 'Introduction: Jia Zhangke, Realism, Memory and Impurity' 2. 'The Walls of China: Between Ephemerality and Permanence' 3. 'Ping Yao’s City Walls: On-Location Filming and the Weight of History' 4. 'Pop Music’s Sonic Memories' 5. 'Landscape Painting, Chinese Philosophy and the Aesthetic Innovation of Still Life' 6. 'Opera, Wuxia and China’s Imagined Civilization' 7. 'Painterly Still Lives and Photographic Poses: Stillness and the Moving Image' 8. 'Garden Heterotopias and the Memory of Space' 9. 'I Wish I Knew’s Cinephilic Journeys (an afterword on intertextuality)' 10. Bibliography