History of Contemporary Chinese Cinema (Since 1977)

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 environments; it ranges from specific details to quantifiable realities such as shooting backgrounds and box office statistics, and elevates these characteristics through a mix of narration and discussion, as well as various theoretical approaches that are "artfully obscure." These aspects, along with the new academic methods they reflect, are very worth savoring. Film itself is a rather heterogeneous thing—a tool of ideology, a cultural entertainment commodity of industrial production, an artistic labor that achieves individual intentions through collective creation via multiple processes, and more.