Chinese Ecocinema : In the Age of Environmental Challenge / edited by Sheldon H. Lu and Jiayan Mi.
| Other author | Mi, Jiayan. |
| Other author | Lu, Sheldon H. |
| Other author | Project Muse. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, ©2009. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015) |
| Description | 1 online resource (xiii, 370 pages :) : illustrations ; |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available: |
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| Series | Book collections on Project MUSE. UNAUTHORIZED |
| Contents | Hydro-politics : water, river, and national trauma. Framing ambient Unheimlich : ecoggedon, ecological unconscious, and water pathology in new Chinese cinema / Jiayan Mi -- Gorgeous Three Gorges at last sight : cinematic remembrance and the dialectic of modernization / Sheldon H. Lu -- Submerged ecology and depth psychology in Wushan yunyu : aesthetic insight into national development / Nick Kaldis -- Floating consciousness : the cinematic confluence of ecological aesthetics in Suzhou River / Andrew Hageman -- Eco-aesthetics, heteroscape, and manufactured landscape. The idea-image : conceptualizing landscape in recent martial arts movies / Mary Farquhar -- Façades : the new Beijing and the unsettled ecology of Jia Zhangke's The world / Jerome Silbergeld -- Ruins and grassroots : Jia Zhangke's cinematic discontents in the age of globalization / Hongbing Zhang -- Urban space in production and disappearance. Of humans and nature in documentary : the logic of capital in West of the tracks and Blind shaft / Ban Wang -- Toward a Hong Kong ecocinema : the dis-appearance of "nature" in three films by Fruit Chan / Chris Tong -- A city of disappearance : trauma, displacement, and spectral cityscape in contemporary Chinese cinema / Jing Nie -- Bioethics, non-anthropocentrism, and green sovereignty. In the face of developmental ruins : place attachment and its ethical claims / Xinmin Liu -- Ning Hao's Incense : a curious tale of earthly Buddhism / Xiaoping Lin -- Putting back the animals : woman-animal meme in contemporary Taiwanese ecofeminist imagination / Chia-ju Chang -- "Reconstructing the god-fearing community" : filming Tibet in the twenty-first century / Donghui He. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [333]-351) and index. |
| Bibliography note | Includes filmography (p. [329]-331). |
| Source of description | Description based on print version record. |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2010525593 |
| ISBN | 9789882205376 |
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