China on Film: A Century of Exploration, Confrontation, and Controversy

by Paul G. Pickowicz

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Leading scholar Paul G. Pickowicz traces the dynamic history of Chinese filmmaking and discusses its course of development from the early days to the present. Moving decade by decade, he explores such key themes as the ever-shifting definitions of modern marriage in 1920s silent features, East-West cultural conflict in the movies of the 1930s, the strong appeal of the powerful melodramatic mode of the 1930s and 1940s, the polarizing political controversies surrounding Chinese filmmaking under the Japanese occupation of Shanghai in the 1940s, and the critical role of cinema during the bloody civil war of the late 1940s. Pickowicz...Read more
  • ISBN10 1442211784
  • ISBN13 9781442211780
  • Publish Date 15 February 2012 (first published 1 January 2011)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Rowman & Littlefield
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 376
  • Language English