Chinese Ecocinema: In the Age of Environmental Challenge
Chinese Ecocinema: In the Age of Environmental Challenge
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Abstract
In coming decades, film will be one of the primary ways in which China adopts and expands ecological consciousness. This anthology is a book-length study of China's ecosystem through the lens of cinema, in an historic moment of unparalleled environmental crises and destruction. Proposing “ecocinema” as a new critical framework, the volume collectively investigates a wide range of urgent topics in today's world: Chinese and Western epistemes of nature and humanity; socialist modernization amid capitalist globalization; shifting configurations of space, locale, cityscape, and natural landscape; gender, religion, and ethnic cultures; as well as bioethics and environmental politics. Individual chapters zero in on diverse Chinese-language films by directors such as Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige, Tian Zhuangzhuang, Jia Zhangke, Lou Ye, Fruit Chan, Wu Tianming, Tsai Ming-liang, Li Yang, Feng Xiaogang, Zhang Yang, Wang Xiaoshuai, Wang Bing, Ning Hao, Zhang Ming, Dai Sijie, Wanma Caidan, and Huo Jianqi.
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Front Matter
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Introduction: Cinema, Ecology, Modernity
Sheldon H. Lu
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Part I. Hydro-Politics: Water, River, and National Trauma
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Framing Ambient Unheimlich: Ecoggedon, Ecological Unconscious, and Water Pathology in New Chinese Cinema
Jiayan Mi
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Gorgeous Three Gorges at Last Sight: Cinematic Remembrance and the Dialectic of Modernization
Sheldon H. Lu
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Submerged Ecology and Depth Psychology in Wushan yunyu: Aesthetic Insight into National Development
Nick Kaldis
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Floating Consciousness: The Cinematic Confluence of Ecological Aesthetics in Suzhou River
Andrew Hageman
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Framing Ambient Unheimlich: Ecoggedon, Ecological Unconscious, and Water Pathology in New Chinese Cinema
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Part II. Eco-Aesthetics, Heteroscape, and Manufactured Landscape
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Part III. Urban Space in Production and Disappearance
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Of Humans and Nature in Documentary: The Logic of Capital in West of the Tracks and Blind Shaft
Ban Wang
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Toward a Hong Kong Ecocinema: The Dis-appearance of “Nature” in Three Films by Fruit Chan
Chris Tong
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A City of Disappearance: Trauma, Displacement, and Spectral Cityscape in Contemporary Chinese Cinema
Jing Nie
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Of Humans and Nature in Documentary: The Logic of Capital in West of the Tracks and Blind Shaft
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Part IV. Bioethics, Non-Anthropocentrism, and Green Sovereignty
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In the Face of Developmental Ruins: Place Attachment and Its Ethical Claims
Xinmin Liu
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Ning Hao’s Incense: A Curious Tale of Earthly Buddhism
Xiaoping Lin
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Putting Back the Animals: Woman-Animal Meme in Contemporary Taiwanese Ecofeminist Imagination
Chia-ju Chang
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“Reconstructing the God-Fearing Community”: Filming Tibet in the Twenty-First Century
Donghui He
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In the Face of Developmental Ruins: Place Attachment and Its Ethical Claims
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End Matter
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