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Moving figures : class and feeling in the films of Jia Zhangke
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- Summary
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Focuses on how the 'Reform Era' has been constructed in the work of the director Jia Zhangke, analysing the archetypal class figures of worker, peasant, soldier, intellectual and entrepreneur that ...
Focuses on how the 'Reform Era' has been constructed in the work of the director Jia Zhangke, analysing the archetypal class figures of worker, peasant, soldier, intellectual and entrepreneur that are found in his films.
Details
- Creator
- Corey Kai Nelson Schultz
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2023
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (vii, 200 pages) : illustrations (black and white), digital, PDF file(s)
- ISBNs
- 9781474449588, 1474449581, 9781474421621, 1474421628, 9781474421638, 1474421636, 147442161X
- OCLC
- on1306540861
- Previously issued in print: 2018.
- Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.
- Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 The Worker Class: From Leader to the Margins -- Chapter 2 The Peasant and the Mingong: From Empathy to Sympathy to Looking Back -- Chapter 3 The Soldier: From Degraded Reproduction to Avenging Hero -- Chapter 4 The Intellectual: Power and the Voice -- Chapter 5 The Entrepreneur: From Crook to “New Reform Model” -- Notes -- Filmography -- Works Cited -- Index