Globalization and Contemporary Chinese Cinema

Zhang Yimou's Genre Films

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by Xuelin Zhou

Type

Essays

Subject

Director > Zhang Yimou

Keywords

Zhang Yimou, China, globalization

Publishing date

2017

Publisher

Palgrave MacMillan

Collection

Palgrave Pivot

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Hardcover • 145 pages
6 x 8 ½ inches (15 x 21.5 cm)

ISBN

978-9811043277

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Book Presentation:
This pivot considers key transformations within the Chinese film industry since the country opened its doors to the outside world in the late 1970s, and moved from an ideologically-centred censorship system to one of contestation and cooperation between politics, art and market. Focusing on Zhang Yimou, arguably one of China’s most innovative and controversial filmmakers and directors, the author addresses the challenges faced by contemporary Chinese cinema in the face of Hollywood dominance, notably making genre films in an increasingly globalized context, and the necessary compromises between the local and global, the national and the international. Through a combination of textual analysis and context study, it examines action-oriented films Zhang made as responses to a rapidly changing film market and industry.

About the Author:
Dr Xuelin Zhou is Senior Lecturer in Media, Film and Television Studies, School of Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, University of Auckland, New Zealand.

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