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Chinese Urban Shi-nema

eBook - Cinematicity, Society and Millennial China
PALGRAVE MACMILLAN
ISBN/EAN: 9783030496753
Umbreit-Nr.: 324705

Sprache: Englisch
Umfang: 0 S., 7.22 MB
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Erschienen am 30.11.2020
Auflage: 1/2020


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  • Zusatztext
    • <p><b>This book dives into the <i>mise-en-scène</i> of contemporary China to explore the becoming cinema of Chinese cities, societies, and subjectivities. Set in the wake of Chinas radical and rapid period of urbanization and infrastructural transformation, and situating itself in the processual city of Ningbo, the book combines empirical, ficto-critical, and philosophical methods to generate a dynamic account of everyday life as new forms of consumer culture bed in. Harnessing a Realist approach that allows for different scales of analysis, the book zooms in on five architectural assemblages including: surreal real estate showrooms; a fragmented history museum; Chinas first and best Sino-foreign university; a new Old town; and weird gamified any-now(here)-spaces. Together these modern arrangements and machines for living cast light upon the broader picture sweeping up greater China.</b></p><p><b><br></b></p><p><b>         </b></p><p></p><p></p>
  • Kurztext
    • This book dives into the mise-en-scene of contemporary China to explore the &quote;becoming cinema&quote; of Chinese cities, societies, and subjectivities. Set in the wake of China's radical and rapid period of urbanization and infrastructural transformation, and situating itself in the processual city of Ningbo, the book combines empirical, ficto-critical, and philosophical methods to generate a dynamic account of everyday life as new forms of consumer culture bed in. Harnessing a Realist approach that allows for different scales of analysis, the book zooms in on five architectural assemblages including: surreal real estate showrooms; a fragmented history museum; China's &quote;first and best&quote; Sino-foreign university; a new &quote;Old town&quote;; and weird gamified &quote;any-now(here)-spaces.&quote; Together these modern arrangements and machines for living cast light upon the broader picture sweeping up greater China.                
  • Autorenportrait
    • <p>David H. Fleming is Senior Lecturer in the Communication, Media and Culture division at the University of Stirling, Scotland. He is co-author of<i>The Squid Cinema from Hell: Kinoteuthis Infernalis and the Emergence of Chthulhumedia</i>with William Brown (2020), and the author of<i>Unbecoming Cinema</i>(2017).</p>Simon Harrison is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at City University of Hong Kong. He is author of<i>The Impulse to Gesture: Where Language, Minds, and Bodies Intersect</i> (2018).<p></p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;