Film Studies in China 2 Tony Lockhart

Film Studies in China 2 Tony LockhartThe second volume in Intellects Film Studies in China series, this is a collection of articles selected from issues of the journal Contemporary Cinema, translated into English. The goal of publishing this journal in English is to enable in depth exchanges about film policy, global culture and film making with film researchers all over the world.

Essays focus on topics such as genre as media form

in the process reconceptualizing theory and criticism

Bangladesh’s Changing Mediascape presents a pioneering study of the trends

It concentrates on the principles of ‘real socialism’ in its golden age but also assesses its present embrace of capitalism

Sjöwall and Wahlöö constructed a model for using the police novel as an instrument for ideological criticism of the social democratic government and its welfare state project

global future civilization could be

to well-defined cultural study

technological

I know it sounds stupid…let’s say

a particularly rich yet critically neglected cinematic category

Brings together a breadth of perspectives addressing media materialities

It investigates what happens when theories of art from the former East and West collide