Chinese-German Female-Themed Art Film Culture in the Context of Globalization

Chinese-German Female-Themed Art Film Culture in the Context of Globalization
Author: Ning Xu
Publisher: Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH
Total Pages: 416
Release: 2022-08-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 3832554807

In the context of globalization, this book explores female-themed art films from China and Germany, in order to seek and illustrate how the cultural difference between the ways of representing women and narrating women's themes is shown in the films of both countries.

A Comparative Study of Female-Themed Art Films from China and Germany

A Comparative Study of Female-Themed Art Films from China and Germany
Author: Ning Xu
Publisher: Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH
Total Pages: 347
Release: 2017-01-17
Genre: Music
ISBN: 3832544046

This book explores female-themed art films from China and Germany and seeks to illustrate how the cultural difference between the ways of representing women and narrating women's themes is shown in both countries' films, by means of analyzing two film elements: mise-en-scène and cinematography. This book analyzes female-themed art films in five topics: Marriage and Love, Birth and Motherhood, Professional Women and Housewives, Death and Despair, and Dreams and Destiny.

Art Papers

Art Papers
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 428
Release: 2003
Genre: Arts, American
ISBN:

Development of the Global Film Industry

Development of the Global Film Industry
Author: Qiao Li
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2020-09-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1000092348

The global film industry has witnessed significant transformations in the past few years. Regions outside the USA have begun to prosper while non-traditional production companies such as Netflix have assumed a larger market share and online movies adapted from literature have continued to gain in popularity. How have these trends shaped the global film industry? This book answers this question by analyzing an increasingly globalized business through a global lens. Development of the Global Film Industry examines the recent history and current state of the business in all parts of the world. While many existing studies focus on the internal workings of the industry, such as production, distribution and screening, this study takes a "big picture" view, encompassing the transnational integration of the cultural and entertainment industry as a whole, and pays more attention to the coordinated development of the film industry in the light of influence from literature, television, animation, games and other sectors. This volume is a critical reference for students, scholars and the public to help them understand the major trends facing the global film industry in today’s world.

Chinese Cinema

Chinese Cinema
Author: Paul Clark
Publisher: CUP Archive
Total Pages: 264
Release: 1987
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780521326384

Mainstream Culture Refocused

Mainstream Culture Refocused
Author: Xueping Zhong
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2010-07-31
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0824860667

Serialized television drama (dianshiju), perhaps the most popular and influential cultural form in China over the past three decades, offers a wide and penetrating look at the tensions and contradictions of the post-revolutionary and pro-market period. Zhong Xueping’s timely new work draws attention to the multiple cultural and historical legacies that coexist and challenge each other within this dominant form of story telling. Although scholars tend to focus their attention on elite cultural trends and avant garde movements in literature and film, Zhong argues for recognizing the complexity of dianshiju’s melodramatic mode and its various subgenres, in effect "refocusing" mainstream Chinese culture. Mainstream Culture Refocused opens with an examination of television as a narrative motif in three contemporary Chinese art-house films. Zhong then turns her attention to dianshiju’s most important subgenres. "Emperor dramas" highlight the link between popular culture’s obsession with emperors and modern Chinese intellectuals’ preoccupation with issues of history and tradition and how they relate to modernity. In her exploration of the "anti-corruption" subgenre, Zhong considers three representative dramas, exploring their diverse plots and emphases. "Youth dramas’" rich array of representations reveal the numerous social, economic, cultural, and ideological issues surrounding the notion of youth and its changing meanings. The chapter on the "family-marriage" subgenre analyzes the ways in which women’s emotions are represented in relation to their desire for "happiness." Song lyrics from music composed for television dramas are considered as "popular poetics." Their sentiments range between nostalgia and uncertainty, mirroring the social contradictions of the reform era. The Epilogue returns to the relationship between intellectuals and the production of mainstream cultural meaning in the context of China’s post-revolutionary social, economic, and cultural transformation. Provocative and insightful, Mainstream Culture Refocused will appeal to scholars and students in studies of modern China generally and of contemporary Chinese media and popular culture specifically.

Global Art Cinema

Global Art Cinema
Author: Rosalind Galt
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 409
Release: 2010-04-14
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0199726299

"Art cinema" has for over fifty years defined how audiences and critics imagine film outside Hollywood, but surprisingly little scholarly attention has been paid to the concept since the 1970s. And yet in the last thirty years art cinema has flourished worldwide. The emergence of East Asian and Latin American new waves, the reinvigoration of European film, the success of Iranian directors, and the rise of the film festival have transformed the landscape of world cinema. This book brings into focus art cinema's core internationalism, demonstrating its centrality to understanding film as a global phenomenon. The book reassesses the field of art cinema in light of recent scholarship on world film cultures. In addition to analysis of key regions and films, the essays cover topics including theories of the film image; industrial, aesthetic, and political histories; and art film's intersections with debates on genre, sexuality, new media forms, and postcolonial cultures. Global Art Cinema brings together a diverse group of scholars in a timely conversation that reaffirms the category of art cinema as relevant, provocative, and, in fact, fundamental to contemporary film studies.

Global Culture

Global Culture
Author: Diana Crane
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2016-05-06
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1134955103

First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.