Overview
- Provides a rigorous critique of China’s new independent cinema
- Studies the political, cultural and societal landscape of post-socialist China
- Utilizes a Marxist perspective to unpack the problematic cultural politics of new wave films
Part of the book series: Chinese Literature and Culture in the World (CLCW)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
Keywords
- China's new cinema
- sixth generation filmmakers
- Chinese postsocialist culture
- xianchan aesthetic
- new poor China
- new middle class China
- globalism China
- contemporary Chinese culture
- independent film industry China
- new wave cinema China
- utopian China
- neoliberal ideology China
- Marxist
- Marxism
- Chinese cultural politics
- Chinese class system
About this book
Ideology and Utopia in China’s New Wave Cinema investigates the ways in which New Wave filmmakers represent China in this age of neoliberal reform. Analyzing this paradigm shift in independent cinema, this text explores the historicity of the cinematic form and its cultural-political visions. Through a close reading of the narrative strategy of key films in New Wave Cinema, Xiaoping Wang studies the movement’s impact on film, literature, culture and politics.
Reviews
“In this outstanding and original study, Xiaoping Wang examines many of the Chinese films celebrated in the West in recent decades, giving readers a deeper understanding of their social contexts and effects. Challenging the common view of scholars and critics who celebrate this cinema as politically subversive, he offers a trenchant Marxist critique of the ways these films, despitetheir apparent style of social realism, ultimately are complicit in the bourgeois neoliberalism that has extended its global reach into China.” (Jason McGrath, Associate Professor of Asian Languages & Literatures and Moving Image & Media Studies at the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, USA, and the author of Postsocialist Modernity: Chinese Cinema, Literature, and Criticism in the Market Age, 2008)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Xiaoping Wang is Chair Professor of Chinese Studies at Huaqiao University, China. He has published more than 100 research articles on modern and contemporary Chinese literature, culture and critical theory.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Ideology and Utopia in China's New Wave Cinema
Book Subtitle: Globalization and Its Chinese Discontents
Authors: Xiaoping Wang
Series Title: Chinese Literature and Culture in the World
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91140-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-91139-7Published: 11 July 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-08185-0Published: 14 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-91140-3Published: 27 June 2018
Series ISSN: 2945-7254
Series E-ISSN: 2945-7262
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 265
Number of Illustrations: 33 b/w illustrations
Topics: Asian Literature, Asian Cinema and TV