General History of Chinese Film

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by Ding Yaping

Type

Studies

Subject

Countries > China

Keywords

China, history of cinema

Publishing date

2023

Publisher

Routledge

Collection

Routledge Studies in Chinese Cinema

1st publishing

2021

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 1200 pages
6 x 9 ½ inches (15.5 x 24 cm)

ISBN

978-0-367-76444-9

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Book Presentation:
This three-volume set charting the general history of Chinese film organizes, analyses, and explains the different stages of development of Chinese film from 1896 to the present day.

It includes analysis of films, filmmakers, historical elements of film style, as well as a review and elaboration of major events, while examining the intersection between film ecology and cultural ecology in every historical period, deploying the results of contemporary research from both China and abroad. Beginning with the film as text, it proceeds through formal analysis and comparison, makes connections with the social background of the work and the filmmakers, and narrates a continuous history of Chinese films and filmmakers and their world. The purpose is to deduce the historical basis for the evolution of film as art, political, philosophical, and literary trends, and to understand and explain how the current tradition of Chinese film has been gradually constructed from the past.

This set will be a essential reading for scholars and students in film studies, Chinese studies, cultural studies, and media studies.

About the Author:
Ding Yaping is the Director of the Film and Television Research Institute of the Chinese National Academy of Arts. He specializes in the history of Chinese film and has published more than 20 monographs.
Jin Haina is professor of translation, film and communication studies at the Communication University of China. Her research interests include film translation, translation history, and film history.

See the publisher website: Routledge