| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 370 pages) : illustrations |
| 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. |
| Note |
"This book originated from a panel on "New Chinese Ecocinema and Ethics of Environmental Imagination" that we organized for the annual convention of the Association for Asian Studies in Boston, March 2007"--Page [ix]. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references, filmography, and index. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Summary |
This anthology is a book-length study of China's ecosystem through the lens of cinema. Proposing 'ecocinema' as a new critical framework, the volume collectively investigates a wide range of urgent topics in today's world. |
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Motion pictures -- China -- History.
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Environmentalism in motion pictures.
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Environmentalism -- China.
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Fine Arts.
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Social sciences.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- Reference.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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Environmentalism in motion pictures. (OCoLC)fst01903141
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Environmentalism. (OCoLC)fst00913543
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Motion pictures. (OCoLC)fst01027285
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China. (OCoLC)fst01206073
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Film. (DE-588)4017102-4
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Ökologie. (DE-588)4043207-5
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Film.
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Ökologie.
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China.
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Added Author |
Lu, Sheldon H.
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Mi, Jiayan.
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| In: |
HKU Press digital editions. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Chinese ecocinema. Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press ; London : Eurospan [distributor], 2009 9789622090859 (OCoLC)338626795 |
| ISBN |
9789882205376 (electronic bk.) |
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9882205372 (electronic bk.) |
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