Overview
- Assess the challenges facing the contemporary Chinese cinema industry
- Examines the strategies and practices that Chinese cinema adopts to respond to Hollywood's presence
- Considers how non-Hollywood cinemas can cater to a cross-cultural/cross-regional audience by blending local elements with global ones.
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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About this book
This pivot considers key transformations within the Chinese film industry since the country opened its doors to the outside world in the late 1970s, and moved from an ideologically-centred censorship system to one of contestation and cooperation between politics, art and market. Focusing on Zhang Yimou, arguably one of China’s most innovative and controversial filmmakers and directors, the author addresses the challenges faced by contemporary Chinese cinema in the face of Hollywood dominance, notably making genre films in an increasingly globalized context, and the necessary compromises between the local and global, the national and the international. Through a combination of textual analysis and context study, it examines action-oriented films Zhang made as responses to a rapidly changing film market and industry.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Dr Xuelin Zhou is Senior Lecturer in Media, Film and Television Studies, School of Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, University of Auckland, New Zealand.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Globalization and Contemporary Chinese Cinema
Book Subtitle: Zhang Yimou's Genre Films
Authors: Xuelin Zhou
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4328-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-4327-7Published: 05 July 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-5108-2Published: 09 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-4328-4Published: 21 June 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 132
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations
Topics: Asian Cinema and TV, Cultural Studies, American Cinema and TV