Overview
- Explores the history of and approaches to documentary production within China
- Addresses established and emerging areas of documentary theory
- Examines the particularity of Chinese documentary and its transformations and techniques
Part of the book series: East Asian Popular Culture (EAPC)
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Keywords
- Chinese cinema
- contemporary cinema
- documentary theory
- Chinese documentary development
- socialist realist film
About this book
This book explores the history of, and approaches to, documentary production within China from the Cultural Revolution to the present day. It examines the institutionalisation of socialist realism during the PRC’s revolutionary era; considers the emergence of the fluid xianchang aesthetics and the creation of contingent subjectivities in relation to physicist Carlo Rovelli’s loop quantum gravity theory; explores two factory films through the angle of temporality; argues that time in the post-X era is multi-layered and can be experimented through a cinematic ruin aesthetics; and theorises ecological temporality in relation to Jean-Paul Sartre’s ontology on being as freedom and Caroline Godart’s analysis of difference.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Muyun Liu, PhD, is currently employed by the Supreme Court of Victoria, Australia. She is a lawyer based in Melbourne, and received her PhD from the University of Melbourne in 2018.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Independent Chinese Documentary Cinema
Book Subtitle: Perspectives on Time and Ecological Phenomenology
Authors: Muyun Liu
Series Title: East Asian Popular Culture
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), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-57907-3Due: 10 August 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-57910-3Due: 10 August 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-57908-0Due: 10 August 2024
Series ISSN: 2634-5935
Series E-ISSN: 2634-5943
Edition Number: 1