| Postsocialist Conditions: Ideas and History in China's Independent Cinema, 1988-2008 Contributor(s): Wang, Xiaoping (Author) |
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ISBN: 9004385541 ISBN-13: 9789004385542 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $273.60 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Sociology - General - Social Science | Popular Culture - Performing Arts | Film - General |
| Series: Ideas, History, and Modern China |
| Physical Information: 1.2" H x 6.2" W x 9.5" (1.75 lbs) 484 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In Postsocialist Conditions: Idea and History in China's "Independent Cinema," 1988-2008, WANG Xiaoping offers a comprehensive survey and trenchant critique of China's "Independent Cinema" by the sixth-generation auteurs. By showing the multi-valence of the postsocialist conditions in contemporary Chinese society, their films articulate a new cultural-political logic in postsocialist China, which is also the logic of the market in this era of neoliberal transformation, brought about by the forces of marketization since the late 1980s. The directors laudably show the spirits of humanism and the humanitarian concerns of the underclass, yet the shortage and repudiation of class analysis prohibits the artists from exploring the social contradictions and the cause of class restructuration. |