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Chinese ecocinema [electronic resource] : in the age of environmental challenge / edited by Sheldon H. Lu and Jiayan Mi.

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Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, c2009.
Physical Description
xiii, 370 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Additional Creators
Lu, Sheldon H. and Mi, Jiayan
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Contents
Hydro-politics : water, river, and national trauma. Framing ambient Unheimlich : ecoggedon, ecological unconscious, and water pathology in new Chinese cinema / Jiayan Mi -- Gorgeous Three Gorges at last sight : cinematic remembrance and the dialectic of modernization / Sheldon H. Lu -- Submerged ecology and depth psychology in Wushan yunyu : aesthetic insight into national development / Nick Kaldis -- Floating consciousness : the cinematic confluence of ecological aesthetics in Suzhou River / Andrew Hageman -- Eco-aesthetics, heteroscape, and manufactured landscape. The idea-image : conceptualizing landscape in recent martial arts movies / Mary Farquhar -- Façades : the new Beijing and the unsettled ecology of Jia Zhangke's The world / Jerome Silbergeld -- Ruins and grassroots : Jia Zhangke's cinematic discontents in the age of globalization / Hongbing Zhang -- Urban space in production and disappearance. Of humans and nature in documentary : the logic of capital in West of the tracks and Blind shaft / Ban Wang -- Toward a Hong Kong ecocinema : the dis-appearance of "nature" in three films by Fruit Chan / Chris Tong -- A city of disappearance : trauma, displacement, and spectral cityscape in contemporary Chinese cinema / Jing Nie -- Bioethics, non-anthropocentrism, and green sovereignty. In the face of developmental ruins : place attachment and its ethical claims / Xinmin Liu -- Ning Hao's Incense : a curious tale of earthly Buddhism / Xiaoping Lin -- Putting back the animals : woman-animal meme in contemporary Taiwanese ecofeminist imagination / Chia-ju Chang -- "Reconstructing the god-fearing community" : filming Tibet in the twenty-first century / Donghui He.
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9789622090859 (hbk.)
9622090850 (hbk.)
9789622090866 (pbk.)
9622090869 (pbk.)
Bibliography Note
Includes filmography (p. [329]-331).
Includes bibliographical references (p. [333]-351) and index.
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