David H. Fleming & Simon Harrison 
Chinese Urban Shi-nema [PDF ebook] 
Cinematicity, Society and Millennial China

Ajutor

This book dives into the mise-en-scène of contemporary China to explore the “becoming cinema” of Chinese cities, societies, and subjectivities. Set in the wake of China’s radical and rapid period of urbanization and infrastructural transformation, and situating itself in the processual city of Ningbo, the book combines empirical, ficto-critical, and philosophical methods to generate a dynamic account of everyday life as new forms of consumer culture bed in. Harnessing a Realist approach that allows for different scales of analysis, the book zooms in on five architectural assemblages including: surreal real estate showrooms; a fragmented history museum; China’s “first and best” Sino-foreign university; a new “Old town”; and weird gamified “any-now(here)-spaces.” Together these modern arrangements and machines for living cast light upon the broader picture sweeping up greater China.

                


€106.99
Metode de plata

Cuprins


1. Introduction.- 2. Shi-Story and Theory.- 3. Commercial Overground Shi-Nema: Some Notes on

Cinematicity and Its Propensity for Selling Dream (Un) Real Estate in Contemporary China.- 4. In-dependent Art Shi-Nema: Decomposing the Main Melody via Monu-mental Time-Images.- 5. Transnational Sci-Fi Shi-nema: Or, Diary Notes from “Westworld” Regarding Neoliberal Dulosis, “Academic” Automatons and the Franchised Post-historical University in the Era of Global “Excellence”.- 6. Shi-Nematic Games (Casino Capitalism).- 7. Epilogue: Disneyfied Dreamwork Shinema-Tracing a New ‘Old’ Path Through the Inauthentic ‘Traditional.


Despre autor

David H. Fleming is Senior Lecturer in the Communication, Media and Culture division at the University of Stirling, Scotland. He is co-author of The Squid Cinema from Hell: Kinoteuthis Infernalis and the Emergence of Chthulhumedia with William Brown (2020), and the author of Unbecoming Cinema (2017). Simon Harrison is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at City University of Hong Kong. He is author of
The Impulse to Gesture: Where Language, Minds, and Bodies Intersect (2018).
         

Cumpărați această carte electronică și primiți încă 1 GRATUIT!
Limba Engleză ● Format PDF ● Pagini 235 ● ISBN 9783030496753 ● Mărime fișier 7.6 MB ● Editura Springer International Publishing ● Oraș Cham ● Țară CH ● Publicat 2020 ● Descărcabil 24 luni ● Valută EUR ● ID 7696468 ● Protecție împotriva copiilor DRM social

Mai multe cărți electronice de la același autor (i) / Editor

26.324 Ebooks din această categorie