The New Chinese Documentary Film Movement: For the Public Record
Chris Berry, Xinyu Lu, and Lisa Rofel
Abstract
The New Chinese Documentary Film Movement is a project unveiling recent documentary film work that has transformed visual culture in China, and brought new immediacy along with a broader base of participation to Chinese media. This volume provides an introduction to the topic of Chinese documentary film, the signature mode of contemporary Chinese visual culture. The chapters here examine how documentary filmmakers have opened up a unique new space of social commentary and critique in an era of rapid ... More
The New Chinese Documentary Film Movement is a project unveiling recent documentary film work that has transformed visual culture in China, and brought new immediacy along with a broader base of participation to Chinese media. This volume provides an introduction to the topic of Chinese documentary film, the signature mode of contemporary Chinese visual culture. The chapters here examine how documentary filmmakers have opened up a unique new space of social commentary and critique in an era of rapid social changes amid globalization and marketization. They cover topics ranging from cruelty in documentary to the representation of Beijing: gay, lesbian, and queer documentary; sound in documentary; the exhibition context in China; authorial intervention and subjectivity; and the distinctive “on the spot” aesthetics of contemporary Chinese documentary.
Keywords:
film,
documentary,
visual culture,
China,
immediacy
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2010 |
Print ISBN-13: 9789888028528 |
| Published to Hong Kong Scholarship Online: September 2011 |
DOI:10.5790/hongkong/9789888028528.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Chris Berry, editor
Department of Media and Communication at Goldsmiths, University
of London
Xinyu Lu, editor
Journalism School at Fudan University in Shanghai
Lisa Rofel, editor
University of California, Santa Cruz
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