Moving figures : class and feeling in the films of Jia Zhangke / Corey Kai Nelson Schultz.

• Introduction -- Chapter 1: The Worker Class: From Leader To The Margins -- Chapter 2: The Peasant and the Mingong: From Empathy to Sympathy to Looking Back -- Chapter 3: The Soldier: From Degraded Reproduction to Avenging Hero -- Chapter 4: The Intellectual: Power and the Voice -- Chapter 5: The Entrepreneur: From Crook to "New Reform Model". 

• Since 1979, China has been undergoing a period of immense social and economic change, transitioning from state-run economics to free market capitalism. This book focuses on how the ‘Reform Era’ has been constructed in the work of the director Jia Zhangke, analysing the archetypal class figures of worker, peasant, soldier, intellectual and entrepreneur that are found in his films. Examining how these figures are represented, and how Jia’s cinematography creates those ‘structures of feeling’ that concretise around a particular time and place, the book argues that Jia’s cinema should be understood not just as narratives that represent Chinese social transition, but also as an effort to engage the audience’s emotional responses through representation, symbolism and the affective experience of specific cinematic tropes. 

Ämnesord

Social classes in motion pictures.  (LCSH)

Motion pictures  -- Political aspects -- China. (LCSH)

Motion pictures  -- Social aspects -- China. (LCSH)

Motion pictures.  (fast)

Social classes in motion pictures.  (fast)

Regissörer  (sfit)

Motion pictures  -- Political aspects. (fast)

Motion pictures  -- Social aspects. (fast)

China  -- In motion pictures. (LCSH)

China.  (fast)

Genre

Criticism, interpretation, etc.  (fast)

Personnamn

Jia, Zhangke, 1970- -- Criticism and interpretation.

Jia, Zhangke, 1970-

Jia, Zhangke, 1970-

Indexterm och SAB-rubrik

Directors

Klassifikation

PN1998.3.J523 (LCC)

791.4302/33092 (DDC)

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