Chinese Ecocinema – In the Age of Environmental Challenge
Sheldon Lu author Jiayan Mi author
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Hong Kong University Press
Published:1st Dec '09
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This anthology is the first book-length study of China's environmental condition and ecosystem through the lens of cinema from a non-anthropocentric point of view. By proposing "ecocinema" as a new critical framework, the volume breaks new ground in Chinese and global film studies.
A timely volume addressing issues of hydro-politics, eco-aesthetics, manufactured landscape, and bioethics, Chinese Ecocinema charts a new direction for film studies and establishes cinema as a vital force in renegotiating fractured relationships amongnature, history, technology, and culture, as it gestures toward a place-bound ideal of planetarianism. -- Yingjin Zhang, University of California, San Diego
ISBN: 9789622090859
Dimensions: 232mm x 161mm x 30mm
Weight: 770g
384 pages