The New Chinese Documentary Film Movement: For the Public Record

by Chris Berry, Xinyu Lu, Lisa Rofel

Overview

The New Chinese Documentary Film Movement is the first English-language book on Chinese documentary film, the signature mode of contemporary Chinese visual culture. The book offers an introduction, a detailed historical analysis, and specialized essays on specific themes and individual films to illuminate this exciting trend.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789888028528
Publisher:	Hong Kong University Press
Publication date:	08/28/2011
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	268
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.90(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Chris Berry is the professor of film and television studies in the Department of Media and Communication at Goldsmiths, University of London.

Editorial Reviews

"Timely and engaging, this is the first critical volume in English on the emergence and flourishing of the new documentary movement in China in the last two decades. A border-crossing effort by Chinese and Western scholars, joined by the leading independent documentarian Wu Wenguang, the informative and provocative writings here shed new light on the complex relationships between everyday life and media, public culture and social change in contemporary China." — Zhang Zhen, editor of The Urban Generation: Chinese Cinema and Society at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century

From the Publisher

Timely and engaging, this is the first critical volume in English on the emergence and flourishing of the new documentary movement in China in the last two decades. A border-crossing effort by Chinese and Western scholars, joined by the leading independent documentarian Wu Wenguang, the informative and provocative writings here shed new light on the complex relationships between everyday life and media, public culture and social change in contemporary China.

Zhang Zhen