Post-Hollywood Era Chinese Cinema

Author: Lan Guoai
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: From the outside, Hollywood is not obviously seen as a foreign symbol in the landscape of Chinese cinema, but rather as a fragment of cultural collision scattered across the land of Chinese culture. The reason for this is key: while we accept Hollywood as a form of cinematic culture, Hollywood and its people in the National Government, on the other hand, cultivate and operate film as an industry, with culture becoming a soft package for commodities. Against the backdrop of Hollywood's dominance nearing its end and the rapid rise of Asian cinema, this book delves deeply into the thematic implications of Chinese films since the 1990s, objectively and profoundly stating the cultural choices and dilemmas faced by Chinese cinema in the post-Hollywood era between art and commerce, the masses and the elite, and the East and the West. While exposing the inherent paradoxes and crises within Chinese cinema, it also strives to reveal its future possibilities and hopes. The entire book is permeated with a thorough awareness of mass culture and a market-centric perspective, focusing on constructing a profound thinking framework and cultural platform around film—commercial art—cultural ideology. From this, it offers unique reflections and judgments on the cultural path and methods of the development of Chinese cinema.