History of Contemporary Chinese Cinema. Since 1977

Author: Lu Shaoyang
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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 diverse theoretical approaches that are somewhat enigmatic. These aspects, along with the new academic methods they reflect, are very worth savoring. Film itself is a rather chaotic thing—it can be an ideological tool, a culturally entertaining commodity of industrial production, and an artistic labor that achieves individual intentions through collective creation via multiple processes.