The Politics of Memory in Sinophone Cinemas and Image Culture

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Edited by Peng Hsiao-yen and Ella Raidel

Type

Studies

Subject

Countries > China

Keywords

China, memory, ideology

Publishing date

2019

Publisher

Routledge

Collection

Routledge Contemporary China Series

1st publishing

2017

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 198 pages
6 ¼ x 9 ½ inches (16 x 24 cm)

ISBN

978-0-367-20927-8

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Book Presentation:
Cinema archives memories, conserves the past, and rewrites histories. As much as the Sinophone embodies differences, contemporary Sinophone cinemas in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and the People’s Republic of China invest various images of contested politics in order to assert different histories and self-consciousness. As such, Sinophone cinemas and image production function as archives, with the capability of reinterpreting the multiple dimensions of past and present.


The Politics of Memory in Sinophone Cinemas and Image Culture investigates Sinophone films and art projects that express this desire for archiving and reconfiguring the past. Comprising ten chapters, this book brings together contributors from an array of disciplines - artists, filmmakers, curators, film critics, and literary scholars - to grapple with the creative ambiguities of Sinophone cinemas and image culture. Blending eclectic methods of scholarly research, knowledge-making, and art-making into a new discursive space, the chapters address the diverse complexities of the cinematic culture and image production in Sinitic language regions.

This book is a valuable resource for students and scholars of film studies, China studies, East Asian studies, Taiwan studies, and Sinophone studies, as well as professionals who work in the film industry.

About the authors:
Peng Hsiao-yen is Research Fellow at the Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy, Academia Sinica, Taiwan.
Ella Raidel is Senior Postdoc (Elise-Richter-PEEK) at Art University Linz, Austria.

See the publisher website: Routledge