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The authorship of place :a cultural geography of the new Chinese cinemas
- 作者: Lo, Dennis,
- 出版:
- 稽核項: xii, 211 pages :illustrations, maps, portraits, 1 facsimile ;26 cm.
- 標題: Motion pictures , Landscapes in motion pictures. , Motion picture locations China. , Motion picture locations Asia. , Motion pictures, Chinese Asia. , Motion picture locations , Motion pictures, Chinese , Motion pictures China.
- ISBN: 9888528513 , 9789888528516
- 附註: Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-200) and index. Appreciate from afar : long for home in Li Xing's and Wang Tong's Xiangtu film adaptations -- Myth making in place : cultivating the wilderness with Li Xing and Wu Tianming -- Reel pilgrims : experiencing life with Chen Kaige -- A home in becoming : forging Taiwan's imagined community in Jiufen -- How Xiaoxian as ambassador : performing cross-strait histories in the "Taiwan trilogy" -- Translocalities of sadness : touring inauthentic geographies with Hou Xiaoxian and Jia Zhangke -- Conclusion : place and the politics of nation branding.
- 系統號: 005334909
- 資料類型: 圖書
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- 引用網址: 複製連結
The Authorship of Place is the first monograph dedicated to the study of the politics, history, aesthetics, and practices of location shooting for Taiwanese, Mainland Chinese, and coproduced art cinemas shot in rural communities since the late 1970s. Dennis Lo argues that rural location shooting, beyond serving aesthetic and technical needs, constitutes practices of cultural survival in a region beset with disruptive and disorienting social changes, including rapid urbanization, geopolitical shifts, and ecological crises. In response to these social changes, auteurs like Hou Xiaoxian, Jia Zhangke, Chen Kaige, and Li Xing engaged in location shooting to transform sites of film production into symbolically meaningful places of collective memories and aspirations. These production practices ultimately enabled auteurs to experiment with imagining Taiwanese, Mainland Chinese, and cross-strait communities in novel and contentious ways. Deftly guiding readers on a cross-strait tour of prominent shooting locations for the New Chinese Cinemas, this book shows how auteurs sought out their disappearing cultural heritage by reenacting lived experiences of nation building, homecoming, and cultural salvage while shooting on-location. This was an especially daunting task when auteurs encountered the shooting locations as spaces of unresolved historical, social, and geopolitical contestations, tensions which were only intensified by the impact of filmmaking on rural communities. This book demonstrates how these complex circumstances surrounding location shooting were pivotal in shaping both representations of the rural on-screen, as well as the production communities, institutions, and industries off-screen. Informed by cutting-edge perspectives in cultural geography and media anthropology, The Authorship of Place both revises Chinese-language film history and theorizes groundbreaking approaches for investigating the cultural politics of film authorship and production. “This extraordinary book discusses the uses of location shooting in films by contemporary Taiwanese and Mainland Chinese directors ranging from Li Xing to Jia Zhangke. It highlights the ways in which place, memory, and identity stances respond to social changes and geopolitical disparities. In a world full of uncertainty, the argument about the imaginary homeland as an experienced cinematic reality only renders it more urgent and universally relatable.” —Ping-hui Liao, University of California, San Diego “The Authorship of Place is certainly a welcome intervention into the study of Chinese cinemas and their auteurs that further contributes to the wider study of location shooting as well as cultural geographies and place-based imaginaries of film. It is rare to find a book dealing with space/place in and around cinema that is this inventive and nuanced in its methodologies.” —Stephanie DeBoer, Indiana University
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