This innovative collection of essays on twenty-first century Chinese cinema and moving image culture features contributions from an international community of scholars, critics, and practitioners. Taken together, their perspectives make a compelling case that the past decade has witnessed a radical transformation of conventional notions of cinema. Following China's accession to the WTO in 2001, personal and collective experiences of changing social conditions have added new dimensions to the increasingly diverse Sinophone media landscape, and provided a novel complement to the existing edifice of blockbusters, documentaries, and auteur culture. The numerous 'iGeneration' productions and practices examined in this volume include 3D and IMAX films, experimental documentaries, animation, visual aides-mémoires, and works of pirated pastiche. Together, they bear witness to the emergence of a new Chinese cinema characterized by digital and, trans-media representational strategies, the blurring of private/public distinctions, and dynamic reinterpretations of the very notion of 'cinema' itself.
Matthew D. Johnson is Assistant Professor of East Asian History at Grinnell College, US. As a doctoral student at the University of California, San Diego he conducted one of the first oral histories of China's early socialist film industry. His scholarly writing focuses on the history of the motion picture in China; documentary cinema and practice; public cultural service and security; and U.S.-China transnational relations. He is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Chinese Cinemas.
Keith B. Wagner is an Assistant Professor of Film Studies and Social Theory in the Graduate School of Film and Digital Media at Hongik University in Seoul, South Korea. Before moving to Asia, he completed his M.Phil degree at the University of Cambridge and his PhD at King’s College London. He is the co-editor of Neoliberalism and Global Cinema: Capital, Culture and Marxist Critique (2011) and is completing a manuscript based on his dissertation entitled Living with Uncertainty: Precarious Labor in Global Cinema.
Tianqi Yu is a filmmaker, and Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies, University of Nottingham, China campus (Ningbo). She received an MPhil in Sociology from the University of Cambridge, and a PhD from the Centre for Research and Education in Arts and Media, the University of Westminster. Her research focuses on documentary, amateur cinema, Chinese cinema and visual arts. Yu is completing her monograph ‘My’ Self On Camera - First Person Documentary Practice in Twenty-first Century China (Edinburgh University Press). As a filmmaker, her works include Photographing Shenzhen (2007, Discovery), and Memory of Home (2009, collected by DSLCollection). Yu is also a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art.
Luke Vulpiani is a PhD candidate at King’s College London under the supervision of Dr Viktor Fan. He has a 1st Class BA Degree in Film Studies from The University of Warwick and a MA in Chinese Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. His research focuses on aesthetic theory, Chinese film and the relationship between film and philosophy, psychoanalysis and politics.
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评分这本关于当代中国年轻人的作品,真是让人读得欲罢不能。作者以一种极其细腻且富有洞察力的笔触,将镜头聚焦于那些在互联网浪潮中成长的“新一代”。我印象最深的是其中对他们消费观念转变的描述。过去我们总以为“勤俭节约”是刻在中国人骨子里的基因,但这本书展示了一个全新的图景:Z世代如何在数字经济的催化下,展现出惊人的“悦己消费”倾向。他们不再将金钱的积累视为人生的终极目标,而是更愿意为体验、为个性化的服务买单。书中对“种草经济”和“兴趣电商”的分析尤其到位,那种仿佛置身于他们日常刷屏的场景中的感觉,让人不禁反思自己被算法如何潜移默化地塑造着。作者并没有停留在表面的现象描述,而是深入挖掘了这种消费行为背后的心理动机——一种对确定性世界的不安感,以及试图通过即时满足来重建自我价值的努力。尤其是在谈到他们如何利用社交媒体构建“人设”时,那种既真实又表演性的矛盾状态,简直就是对当代社会心理学的一次生动案例研究。
评分这本书的文字功力着实令人称道,它拥有散文的韵味,却又不失新闻调查的严谨性。我特别欣赏作者在处理敏感议题时的平衡感。比如在谈及城市青年与乡村背景的连接断裂时,那种既不美化城市生活的浮躁,也不过度煽情乡村的田园牧歌,而是展示了一种真实且无奈的“失重”状态。其中一段关于“数字游民”初探的描述,让我眼前一亮。它不再是将“灵活就业”浪漫化,而是细致入微地展现了这种工作模式带来的时间不确定性和社交真空。作者通过对比不同城市的生活成本和文化氛围,揭示了“逃离北上广”背后,其实是一种对更高生活质量和心理空间的追求,而这种追求本身,也是在现有社会结构下寻找缝隙的智慧体现。这种对“微观逃逸”现象的精准捕捉,让这本书的价值超越了一般的社会观察,更像是一份描摹当下生存状态的时代速写。
评分硕导编的书,年轻帅气一头红发还娶了一个韩国老婆,一口美音讲课充满睿智语速倍儿快
评分硕导编的书,年轻帅气一头红发还娶了一个韩国老婆,一口美音讲课充满睿智语速倍儿快
评分这本选集一个大问题就是很多文章并没有紧扣iGeneration,或者说编辑着iGeneration的概念放得有点太大了,打点边的都放进来。当然其中还是有不错的。
评分这本选集一个大问题就是很多文章并没有紧扣iGeneration,或者说编辑着iGeneration的概念放得有点太大了,打点边的都放进来。当然其中还是有不错的。
评分硕导编的书,年轻帅气一头红发还娶了一个韩国老婆,一口美音讲课充满睿智语速倍儿快
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