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Exploring the stories, memories and experiences attached to places, Western China on Screen is the first monograph to explore the affinity between the cinema and cities of western China through a spatial perspective. Investigating how cinematic cities in western China appear as both spaces of national power and enclosed spaces of traditional cultural values, the book diversifies the glamourised image of the post-socialist, technocratic metropolises of Beijing and Shanghai, breaking the long-existing rural and ethnographical images of western China established by Chinese Fifth Generation directors. Through case studies of films such as Rainclouds Over Wushan (1996), Buddha Mountain (2010) and Weaving Girl (2010), the book establishes a new way of looking at western urban China on screen: from a space of production to a space of increasing consumption.
Contents
Chapter One: Introduction: Cinematic western China: the under-represented cinematic cities
Chinese Western cinema
Chinese cities and cinema: an imbalanced representation
Organisation of the book
Chapter Two: Cinematic Chongqing: History, Cityscape and Spatial Stratification
Chongqing in films: a brief account
The stratification of high and low spaces
Chapter Three: National Projects and Disappearing Spaces: the Mundane Daily Practices Matter
Rainclouds over Wushan—lived space matters
Still Life—expectation becomes stillness from Wushan to Fengjie
Chapter Four: Cinematic Chengdu: Erasing Socialist Utopia through Political Reorientation
Chengdu in films
24 City: making way for a modern space
Chapter Five: Natural disaster and trauma: dysfunctional families in urban space
Buddha Mountain: nature, a railway station and religious redemption
Chapter Six: Cinematic Xi'an: from an enclosed traditional space to a sprawling urban space
Xi'an and adjacent area on screen
Back to Back, Face to Face: the flâneur walking in an enclosed space
Chapter Seven: Female space and bodies as the medium of social representations
The Story of Ermei: female's social status in rural and urban spaces
Weaving Girl: state-owned enterprise and the female worker
Chapter Eight: Cinematic Lanzhou: the rural victim of urban manipulative domination
The cinematic city as an absent presence
A Fool, the rural victim of urban manipulative domination
Chapter Nine: Conclusion
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