China on Video: Smaller-Screen Realities - Rilegato

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Voci, Paola

 
9780415464529: China on Video: Smaller-Screen Realities
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ISBN 10: 0415464528 ISBN 13: 9780415464529
Casa editrice: Routledge, 2010

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China On Video is the first in-depth study that examines smaller-screen realities and the important role they play not only in the fast-changing Chinese mediascape, but also more broadly in the practice of experimental and non-mainstream cinema. At the crossroads of several disciplines―film, media, new media, media anthropology, visual arts, contemporary China area studies, and cultural studies--this book reveals the existence of a creative, humorous, but also socially and politically critical "China on video", which locates itself outside of the intellectual discourse surrounding both auteur cinema and digital art.

By describing smaller-screen movies, moviemaking and viewing as light realities, Voci points to their "insignificant" weight in terms of production costs, distribution size, profit gains, intellectual or artistic ambitions, but also their deep meaning in defining an alternative way of seeing and understanding the world. The author proposes that lightness is a concept that can usefully be deployed to describe the moving image, beyond the specificity of recent new media developments and which can, in fact, help us rethink previous cinematic practices in broad terms both spatially and temporally.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Paola Voci is a senior lecturer at the University of Otago. Her area of research combines Chinese and film studies. She has published on Chinese cinema, documentary and other non-fiction film/videomaking in contemporary China and the media of the Chinese diaspora.

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Editore
Routledge
Data di pubblicazione
2010
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0415464528
ISBN 13 
9780415464529
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero edizione
1
Numero di pagine
288
Contatto del produttore
Taylor and Francis, GPSR Taylor and Francis
gpsr@taylorandfrancis.com

Taylor & Francis Verlag GmbH, Kaufingerstraße 24
München
80331
Germania

Altre edizioni note dello stesso titolo

9780415814201: China on Video: Smaller-Screen Realities

Edizione in evidenza

ISBN 10:  0415814200 ISBN 13:  9780415814201
Casa editrice: Routledge, 2012
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