Of Humans and Nature in Documentary: The Logic of Capital in West of the Tracks and Blind Shaft
Of Humans and Nature in Documentary: The Logic of Capital in West of the Tracks and Blind Shaft
This chapter focuses on two films, West of the Tracks (2000) and Blind Shaft (2003), which exemplify China's problems in economic development and environmental degradation. It first examines the “creative destruction” of capital accumulation and the extraction of raw material from nature in the murder tale Blind Shaft. It then examines the cityscape of ruins in the Northeast (Dongbei), the former industrial heartland and present rust belt of socialist China, in the documentary film West of the Tracks.
Keywords: West of the Tracks, Blind Shaft, economic development, environmental degradation, capital accumulation, documentary
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