TY  - BOOK
AU  - Schultz,Corey Kai Nelson
TI  - Moving Figures: Class and Feeling in the Films of Jia Zhangke 
T2  - Edinburgh Studies in East Asian Film : ESEAF
SN  - 9781474421614
U1  - 791.430 233092 23
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - Edinburgh : 
PB  - Edinburgh University Press, 
KW  - Motion pictures
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - China
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Film, Media & Cultural Studies
KW  - HISTORY / Asia / China
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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; restricted access
N2  - Examines how the Chinese ‘Reform Era’ is constructed and felt in the films of Jia ZhangkeUses the concept of structures of feelings to evaluate the emotional qualities of Jia Zhangke's films Provides an alternative way to examine how films can create meaning through feeling Considers how social change and class transition in China have been evoked and represented in Zhangke's filmsSince 1979, China has been undergoing a period of immense social and economic change, transitioning from state-run economics to free market capitalism. This book 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. Examining how these figures are represented, and how Jia’s cinematography creates those ‘structures of feeling’ that concretise around a particular time and place, the book argues that Jia’s cinema should be understood not just as narratives that represent Chinese social transition, but also as an effort to engage the audience’s emotional responses through representation, symbolism and the affective experience of specific cinematic tropes.Making an important contribution to scholarship about the Reform Era, and opening up many new areas in the larger fields of Chinese visual culture, cultural studies and the affective qualities of film, this is groundbreaking work about a cinematic culture in a period of profound transformation
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474421621?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781474421621
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781474421621/original
ER  -