Movie script

Author: Xu Baogeng
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Publish Date: 2006-12-01
Features: "Film achieves a marriage between body and spirit through the body." This book breaks free from the conventional narrative framework of film textbooks and takes the richness, ambiguity, and mystery of body language as its starting point to explore the interpretation of the body on screen, movement, time, space, color, sound, and cultural unconsciousness, constructing a new cinematic narrative system. The new system discusses over 100 classic films from China and abroad, each with unique criticism and interpretation. It particularly offers fresh insights into recent Chinese films such as Dalam, Hero, Crimson River, Xiao Wu, Theft of the Dragon, From the Earth Up, and The Ghosts on a Bridge. The book is richly illustrated with over 200 images, and its prose is poetic and philosophical. It is based on lecture notes from the author's film courses taught at Tsinghua University in Beijing, National Sun Yat-sen University in Taiwan, and Tsinghua Shenzhen Graduate School over the past decade. The author's extensive background in Western knowledge and years of experience in film creation contribute to the book's broad theoretical perspective and strong spiritual depth.