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Producing Chinese Reality Television - Power, Precarity And Working Cultures

by Sophia Tianyu (Liverpool Media Academy, Uk) Zhang

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 An insider's perspective on the production practices of Chinese reality shows, offering an in-depth understanding of the working culture of Chinese television.
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Fighting Stars - Stardom And Reception In Hong Kong Martial Arts Cinema

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 A wide-ranging study of the star personae and cinematic and cultural contexts of Hong Kong's most influential martial arts cinema stars, from Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan to Zhang Ziyi and Michelle Yeoh.
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Fighting Stars - Stardom And Reception In Hong Kong Martial Arts Cinema

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 A wide-ranging study of the star personae and cinematic and cultural contexts of Hong Kong's most influential martial arts cinema stars, from Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan to Zhang Ziyi and Michelle Yeoh.
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Contemporary Art Cinema Culture In China

by Xiang Fan

~~34,57€~~ 31,11€ 10% OFF

 <b>How do contemporary Chinese audiences access art cinema? What are the alternative channels for the distribution and exhibition of art cinema in China? How is Chinese art cinema changing with the booming of internet media and commodity culture in the 21st century?<br/></b> <br/>To answer these questions,<i> </i>Xiang Fan explores the dynamic networks of art cinema in China in the 21st century, highlighting the cultural practices of intermediaries such as independent programmers, internet critics, and fan translators. Offering insights gleaned from original ethnographic research, Fan reveals how these intermediary practitioners think about cinema, negotiate judgement and appreciation, construct a discourse of value and taste, and most importantly, constitute a coordinated and interrelated network for the sharing of art cinema. She argues that although their motivation was derived from a cinephilia seeking to forge an alternative mode of distribution and reception, the ''new'' cinema culture they have produced simultaneously negotiates a subtly complicit relationship with authoritative and market forces. In doing so, she offers an original interdisciplinary perspective on contemporary art cinema culture in Chinese society.
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Contemporary Art Cinema Culture In China

by Xiang Fan

~~34,57€~~ 31,11€ 10% OFF

 <b>How do contemporary Chinese audiences access art cinema? What are the alternative channels for the distribution and exhibition of art cinema in China? How is Chinese art cinema changing with the booming of internet media and commodity culture in the 21st century?<br/></b> <br/>To answer these questions,<i> </i>Xiang Fan explores the dynamic networks of art cinema in China in the 21st century, highlighting the cultural practices of intermediaries such as independent programmers, internet critics, and fan translators. Offering insights gleaned from original ethnographic research, Fan reveals how these intermediary practitioners think about cinema, negotiate judgement and appreciation, construct a discourse of value and taste, and most importantly, constitute a coordinated and interrelated network for the sharing of art cinema. She argues that although their motivation was derived from a cinephilia seeking to forge an alternative mode of distribution and reception, the ''new'' cinema culture they have produced simultaneously negotiates a subtly complicit relationship with authoritative and market forces. In doing so, she offers an original interdisciplinary perspective on contemporary art cinema culture in Chinese society.
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Fighting Stars - Stardom And Reception In Hong Kong Martial Arts Cinema

~~27,41€~~ 24,67€ 10% OFF

 A wide-ranging study of the star personae and cinematic and cultural contexts of Hong Kong's most influential martial arts cinema stars, from Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan to Zhang Ziyi and Michelle Yeoh.
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Cinema Of Stephen Chow

~~34,57€~~ 31,11€ 10% OFF

 <b>An in-depth exploration of the stardom and authorship of Stephen Chow Sing-chi, one of Hong Kong cinema''s most enduringly popular stars and among its most commercially successful directors.</b> <br/><br/>In the West, Stephen Chow is renowned as the ground-breaking director and star of global blockbusters such as <i>Kung Fu Hustle</i> (2004) and <i>Shaolin Soccer</i> (2001). Among Hong Kong audiences, Chow is celebrated as the leading purveyor of local comedy, popularising the so-called <i>mo-lei-tau</i> ("gibberish") brand of Cantonese vernacular humour, and cultivating a style of madcap comedy that often masks a trenchant social commentary.<br/> <br/> This volume approaches Chow from a diverse range of critical perspectives. Each of the essays, written by a host of renowned international scholars, offers compelling new interpretations of familiar hits such as <i>From Beijing with Love</i> (1994) and <i>Journey to the West</i> (2013). The detailed case studies of seminal local and global movies provide overdue critical attention to Chow''s filmmaking, highlighting the aesthetic power, economic significance, and cultural impact of his films in both domestic and global markets.
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Cinema Of Stephen Chow

~~34,57€~~ 31,11€ 10% OFF

 <b>An in-depth exploration of the stardom and authorship of Stephen Chow Sing-chi, one of Hong Kong cinema''s most enduringly popular stars and among its most commercially successful directors.</b> <br/><br/>In the West, Stephen Chow is renowned as the ground-breaking director and star of global blockbusters such as <i>Kung Fu Hustle</i> (2004) and <i>Shaolin Soccer</i> (2001). Among Hong Kong audiences, Chow is celebrated as the leading purveyor of local comedy, popularising the so-called <i>mo-lei-tau</i> ("gibberish") brand of Cantonese vernacular humour, and cultivating a style of madcap comedy that often masks a trenchant social commentary.<br/> <br/> This volume approaches Chow from a diverse range of critical perspectives. Each of the essays, written by a host of renowned international scholars, offers compelling new interpretations of familiar hits such as <i>From Beijing with Love</i> (1994) and <i>Journey to the West</i> (2013). The detailed case studies of seminal local and global movies provide overdue critical attention to Chow''s filmmaking, highlighting the aesthetic power, economic significance, and cultural impact of his films in both domestic and global markets.
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Fighting Stars - Stardom And Reception In Hong Kong Martial Arts Cinema

~~27,41€~~ 24,67€ 10% OFF

 A wide-ranging study of the star personae and cinematic and cultural contexts of Hong Kong's most influential martial arts cinema stars, from Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan to Zhang Ziyi and Michelle Yeoh.
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Contemporary Chinese Cinema And Visual Culture - Envisioning The Nation

by Sheldon Lu

35,76€ + 10% CARD

 <b>Honourable Mention, Best Monograph Award, BAFTSS Publication Awards 2022</b><br/><br/>Sheldon Lu''s wide-ranging new book investigates how filmmakers and visual artists from mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan have envisioned China as it transitions from a socialist to a globalized capitalist state. It examines how the modern nation has been refashioned and re-imagined in order to keep pace with globalization and transnationalism. <br/><br/>At the heart of Lu''s analysis is a double movement in the relationship between nation and transnationalism in the Chinese post-socialist state. He considers the complexity of how the Chinese economy is integrated in the global capitalist system while also remaining a repressive body politic with mechanisms of control and surveillance. He explores the interrelations of the local, the national, the subnational, and the global as China repositions itself in the world. <br/><br/>Lu considers examples from feature and documentary film, mainstream and marginal cinema, and a variety of visual arts: photography, painting, digital video, architecture, and installation. His close case studies include representations of class, masculinity and sexuality in contemporary Taiwanese and Chinese cinema; the figure of the sex worker as a symbol of modernity and mobility; and artists'' representations of Beijing at the time of the 2008 Olympics.
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Contemporary Chinese Cinema And Visual Culture - Envisioning The Nation

by Sheldon Lu

35,76€ + 10% CARD

 <b>Honourable Mention, Best Monograph Award, BAFTSS Publication Awards 2022</b><br/><br/>Sheldon Lu''s wide-ranging new book investigates how filmmakers and visual artists from mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan have envisioned China as it transitions from a socialist to a globalized capitalist state. It examines how the modern nation has been refashioned and re-imagined in order to keep pace with globalization and transnationalism. <br/><br/>At the heart of Lu''s analysis is a double movement in the relationship between nation and transnationalism in the Chinese post-socialist state. He considers the complexity of how the Chinese economy is integrated in the global capitalist system while also remaining a repressive body politic with mechanisms of control and surveillance. He explores the interrelations of the local, the national, the subnational, and the global as China repositions itself in the world. <br/><br/>Lu considers examples from feature and documentary film, mainstream and marginal cinema, and a variety of visual arts: photography, painting, digital video, architecture, and installation. His close case studies include representations of class, masculinity and sexuality in contemporary Taiwanese and Chinese cinema; the figure of the sex worker as a symbol of modernity and mobility; and artists'' representations of Beijing at the time of the 2008 Olympics.
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The Cinema Of Ann Hui - Aesthetics, Gender, And Displacement

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Exploring Isekai - Mapping Worlds Through Anime, Manga, And Light Novels

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The Cinema Of Ann Hui - Aesthetics, Gender, And Displacement

~~101,39€~~ 91,25€ 10% OFF

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Contemporary Art Cinema Culture In China

by Xiang (Goldsmiths University Of London, Uk.) Fan

~~39,19€~~ 35,27€ 10% OFF

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The Cinema Of Stephen Chow

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Contemporary Art Cinema Culture In China

by Xiang (Goldsmiths University Of London, Uk.) Fan

~~114,91€~~ 103,42€ 10% OFF

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The Cinema Of Stephen Chow

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Contemporary Chinese Cinema And Visual Culture - Envisioning The Nation

by Sheldon (University Of California, Davis, Usa) Lu

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Contemporary Chinese Cinema And Visual Culture - Envisioning The Nation

by Sheldon (University Of California, Davis, Usa) Lu

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The Posthuman Pandemic

by Newman Saul

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Philosophical Enactment And Bodily Cultivation In Early Daoism - In The Matrix Of The Daodejing

by Thomas, Market Analyst Michael

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Hope Form And Future In The Work O

by David P. Rando

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