Screening Post-1989 China: Critical Analysis of Chinese Film and Television

✍ Scribed by Wing Shan Ho (auth.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
Year: 2015
Tongue: English
Leaves: 232
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Introduction....Pages 1-24
Front Matter....Pages 25-25
Selfless Party officials and the Socialist Legacy....Pages 27-48
Insulting Portrayals of the Present Era?: Selling one’s Son, Murder, and Human Trafficking....Pages 49-72
Front Matter....Pages 73-73
Golden Marriage: An Exemplary Marriage and a Harmonious Society....Pages 75-93
Narrow Dwelling: Extra-marital Sex and the City....Pages 95-113
Front Matter....Pages 115-115
Selling Party Patriotism to Intellectuals in the Chinese Blockbuster Hero....Pages 117-136
(Dis)Associating Political Dissent and Non-heteronormative Sexual Desire....Pages 137-157
Conclusion....Pages 159-169
Back Matter....Pages 171-227

✦ Subjects

Asian Culture; Asian Cinema; Arts; Film History; Film and Television Studies; Media Studies

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