Contemporary Chinese films and celebrity directors / Shenshen Cai.
This new text examines recent popular Chinese films and derivative cultural phenomena, with a focus on films directed by celebrity directors such as Han Han, Guo Jingming, Xu Jinglei and Zhao Wei. In opposition to Fifth and Sixth Generation Chinese filmmakers who explored the grand-narratives of his...
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Singapore :
Palgrave Macmillan,
[2017]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Han Han and his debut film The continent: identity in flux, cruel youth, and broken ideals
- Guo Jingming and his Tiny times film series
- Xu Jinglei: a successful actor-writer-director
- Zhao Wei and her debut film So young: nostalgia for the innocent adolescent
- Jiang Wen and his signature films: Let the bullets fly and Gone with the bullets
- Jiang Wenli and her autobiographical film Lan
- Conclusion.