Chinese cinema and artistic conception

Author: Wang Di, Wang Zhimin
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Publish Date: 2000-09-01
Features: This book primarily studies Chinese film art from the perspective of the artistic conception pursued by traditional Chinese art and aesthetics. It covers various aspects of film art, including screenwriting, directing, acting, cinematography, sound recording, and art design, but places greater emphasis on researching the dramatic art of Chinese cinema from the perspective of artistic conception. The book embodies the insights and experiences of the two authors gained over the years from teaching and researching at the Beijing Film Academy. It thoroughly explores and elucidates the beauty of artistic conception in Chinese cinema, focusing on discussions of artistic conception in relation to traditional Chinese poetics, Western modern poetics, as well as numerous intriguing film aesthetics issues such as artistic conception and cinematic space-time, cinematic visuals, cinematic sound, cinematic narrative, and cinematic style.