A History of Chinese Film Art (A Series of Works on Film and Television Art from Peking University)

Author: Zhou Xing
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Publish Date: 2005-03-01
Features: This book presents the content of the author's many years of teaching on the history of Chinese film art. In terms of structure, it largely follows the periods of Chinese film history, but places more emphasis on concise discussions of important artistic trends and phenomena. In the description of historical periods, it differs from the conventional chronological division, focusing instead on block-style of significant historical stage changes (e.g., the first 45 years, the middle 30 years, the last 25 years). In terms of the lower limit of the time frame, it breaks the boundary that general "history" requires to accumulate, adapting to the current cultural status of film art and striving to approximate the real creative conditions at the time of writing, making it a rare film history textbook that accommodates immediate creative phenomena. Therefore, this book is not just a general film history but rather a film history theory combined with a description of current creative phenomena, especially as the author describes a large number of film works with detailed and engaging analysis, attempting to provide a comprehensive description of a century of cinema.