Contemporary Chinese Cinema ((Since 1977)/21st Century Journalism and Communication Series Textbooks)

Author: Lu Shaoyang
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Publish Date: 2004-07-01
Features: This book uses vivid literary language to touch upon a recently occurred history; it analyzes the quality and form of works in each period through the mutual influence of film and its surrounding environment; it elevates these characteristics from specific details to quantifiable realities such as shooting backgrounds and box office statistics, as well as through a mix of narration and discussion, "artificially mysterious" diverse theoretical enhancements. These aspects, along with the new academic approaches they reflect, are very worth savoring. Film itself is a rather chaotic entity—it can be an ideological tool, a culturally entertaining commodity of industrial production, and an artistic labor completed through collective efforts to realize individual intentions through multiple processes.