Western China on Screen - by Hongyan Zou (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><p>Explores the relationship between cinema and the cities of Western China.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Exploring the stories, memories and experiences attached to places, <em>Western China on Screen</em> is the first monograph to explore the affinity between the cinema and cities of western China through a spatial perspective. Investigating how cinematic cities in western China appear as both spaces of national power and enclosed spaces of traditional cultural values, the book diversifies the glamourised image of the post-socialist, technocratic metropolises of Beijing and Shanghai, breaking the long-existing rural and ethnographical images of western China established by Chinese Fifth Generation directors. Through case studies of films such as <em>Rainclouds Over Wushan</em> (1996), <em>Buddha Mountain</em> (2010) and <em>Weaving Girl</em> (2010), the book establishes a new way of looking at western urban China on screen: from a space of production to a space of increasing consumption. </p><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>Exploring the stories, memories and experiences attached to places, Western China on Screen is the first monograph to explore the affinity between the cinema and cities of western China through a spatial perspective. Hongyan Zou investigates how cinematic cities in western China appear as both spaces of national power and enclosed spaces of traditional cultural values, and the book diversifies the glamourised image of the post-socialist, technocratic metropolises of Beijing and Shanghai - breaking the long-existing rural and ethnographical images of western China established by Chinese Fifth Generation directors. Through case studies of films such as Rain Clouds Over Wushan (1996), Buddha Mountain (2010) and Weaving Girl (2010), this book establishes a new way of looking at western urban China on screen: from a space of production to a space of increasing consumption. Hongyan Zou is a lecturer at the Foreign Language School of Sichuan University, China.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>Hongyan Zou is a lecturer at the Foreign Language School of Sichuan University, China. She is the co-author of the book Chapter "Chinese films and the sense of place: Beijing as 'Thirdspace' from In the Heat of the Sun to Mr. Six" in the edited book <i>Making Publics, Making Places</i> (University of Adelaide Press, 2016). Her research focuses on the dynamic relationship between cinema and cities, Chinese urban cinema, Chinese minority films and Chinese Westerns.<p>
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