Movie Land China: Diverse Regional Chinese Cinema

Author: Zhang Jiangyi
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Publish Date: 2005-12-01
Features: This book is ingeniously conceived, horizontally cutting into space, using cultural characteristics and film creation characteristics as benchmarks, to outline 8 major film regions across the Chinese mainland. These "regions" are scattered in various corners of the Chinese map, unified into a "map," forming a century-old zoning map of Chinese cinema. For each "region" on the "map," based on regional cultural characteristics and film creation characteristics, 3-5 regional keywords are extracted, each representing a side of the local culture or film. Then, the films related to the local region are discussed around these 3-5 keywords, forming a "keyword-region-map" zoning model. The book is richly illustrated and highly readable, allowing readers to discover interesting contrasts between regional culture and the regional culture depicted in films.