China's iGeneration Cinema and Moving Image Culture for the Twenty First Century
Foreword, Chris Berry Acknowledgements Notes on Transliteration INTRODUCTION: China's iGeneration Cinema, Keith B. Wagner, Tianqi Yu, Luke Vulpiani PART I. New Technologies CHAPTER 1 Tianqi YU "Toward a Communicative Practice: Female First Person Documentary in Twenty first Century China" CHAPTER 2 Paola VOCI "Quasi Documentary, Cellflix, and Web Spoofs: Chinese Movies' Other Visual Pleasures" CHAPTER 3 Weihua WU "Individuality, State Discourse, and Visual Representation: The Imagination and Practices of the iGeneration in Chinese Animation" CHAPTER 4 Bingfeng DONG "Cinema of Exhibition: Film in Chinese Contemporary Art" PART II. Aesthetics CHAPTER 5 Luke VULPIANI "Goodbye to the Grim Real, Hello to What Comes Next: The Moment of Passage from the Sixth Generation to the iGeneration" CHAPTER 6 Ling ZHANG "Digitizing City Symphony, Stabilizing the Shadow of Time: Montage and Temporal Spatial Construction in San Yuan Li" CHAPTER 7 Dan GAO "From Pirate to Kino eye: A Genealogical Tale of Film Re Distribution in China" CHAPTER 8 Keith B. WAGNER "Xue Jianqiang as Reckless Documentarian: Underdevelopment and Juvenile Crime in post WTO China" PART III. Social Engagement CHAPTER 9 Yiman WANG "Of Animals and Men: Toward A Theory of Docu ani mentary" CHAPTER 10 Ying QIAN "Working with Rubble: Montage, Tweets, and the Reconstruction of an Activist Cinema" CHAPTER 11 Jia TAN "Provincializing the Chinese Mediascape: Cantonese Digital Activism in Southern China" PART IV. Platforms and Politics CHAPTER 12 Jeesoon HONG with Matthew D. JOHNSON "Shanghai Expo and Screen Spaces: Big Screens and New Collectivity" CHAPTER 13 Ma RAN "Regarding the Grassroots Chinese Independent Film Festivals: Regional Assemblage and Abnormal Film Networking" CHAPTER 14 Matthew D. JOHNSON "Wu Wenguang and the NGO Aesthetic" CHAPTER 15 Xiaomei CHEN "The Cinematic Deng Xiaoping: Reform or Restoration?" PART V: Online Audiences CHAPTER 16 Ralph PARFECT "You Must Believe There is Such a Person in This World" Internet Contention of Zhang Yimou's Sexual Storytelling in Under the Hawthorn Tree/Shanzhashu Zhi Lian" CHAPTER 17 Xiao LIU "From the Glaring Sun to the Flying Bullets: The Dilemma of Elliptical Memories in "post " Era Chinese Cinema" Notes on Contributors Index