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The "Reform Era" (1979-present) in China has been a time of massive social and economic change, and has witnessed China's transition from socialism to capitalism. This book focuses on how this period of change has been constructed in the films of Jia Zhangke through analyzing the five class figures of worker, peasant, soldier, intellectual, and entrepreneur that are found in his films. It examines how the figures' representation and the films' cinematography create what Raymond Williams terms "structures of feeling" feelings that concretize around a particular time and place which are captured and evoked in art and culture. The book argues that Jia's cinema should be understood not just as narratives that represent Chinese social transition and the director's changing attitudes to them through characters of different social classes, but also as an effort to engage the audience's emotional responses to those figures through representation, symbolism, and the affective experience of specific cinematic tropes. While making specific observations on Jia's films, the book adds to the scholarship about the Reform era by considering how this period's enormous transformations have been "felt," and also opens up many new areas, not only in the existing body of literature about Chinese film, which has mainly taken a political or sociological approach, but also in the larger fields of Chinese visual culture, cultural studies, and the affective qualities of film.
Contents
List of FiguresAcknowledgments
IntroductionApproach to FeelingClass in ChinaClass Figures and Their EffectsChapter Outlines
Chapter 1 - The Worker Class: From Leader To The MarginsIntroductionHistory of the ClassRepresentationCinematic Tropes: Moving Portraits and Interviews
Chapter 2 - The Peasant and the Mingong: From Empathy to Sympathy to Looking Back IntroductionHistory of the ClassRepresentation Cinematic Tropes: The POV Shot, Observation, Body, and the Gaze
Chapter 3 - The Soldier: From Degraded Reproduction to Avenging HeroIntroductionHistory of the ClassRepresentationCinematic Tropes: Wuxia and The Close-Up
Chapter 4 - The Intellectual: Power and the VoiceIntroductionHistory of the ClassRepresentationCinematic Tropes: Pseudomonologues and Observation
Chapter 5 - The Entrepreneur: From Crook to "New Reform Model"IntroductionHistory of the ClassRepresentationCinematic Tropes: Advertisements and the Close-Up
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