Chinese Cinema

Abstract

This collection brings together a variety of scholars exploring the history, aesthetics, and politics of Chinese cinema as the Chinese film industry grapples with its place as the second largest film industry on the planet. Exploring how Chinese cinema engages with global politics, global market forces, and global film cultures, this book places Chinese cinema against an array of contexts informing the contours of Chinese cinema today. The volume provides a critical examination of the history, aesthetics, cultural politics, audience reception, and political economy of Chinese cinema within global contexts from multi-disciplinary perspectives. The chapters in this volume demonstrate that Chinese cinema in the global context is informed by the intersections and tensions found in Chinese and global politics, national and international co-productions, the local and global in representing Chineseness, and the lived experiences of social and political movements vs. screened politics in Chinese film culture. Chinese Cinema in a Global Context brings together well-established names in the field of Chinese cinema studies with up-and-coming young scholars. Film studies is usually an interdisciplinary field, and the representatives in this volume carry on the tradition. Here are political scientists, literature scholars and historians all grappling with Chinese cinema across space and time.