Index Abbas, Ackbar 113 Accidental Death of an Anarchist, The 105 Acousmêtre 162–3, 167, 168 Adorno, Theodor 66 Ai Xiaoming 34, 41, 237, 239 AIDS 84 Akerman, Chantal 160 Along the Railroad Tracks 114, 120, 238 Alternative Archive 136–7, 145 American Direct Cinema see Direct Cinema Ancient Road of Tangbo 28 Antonioni, Michelangelo 12, 29, 63, 99, 123 Appadurai, Arjun 92 Arte povera 161 At Home in the World 19, 37, 50, 168 Audiences Relationship with filmmakers 125–6 See also Exhibition, Film clubs Auteurship 12, 142, 195, 213–15 See also Filmmakers Authenticity 113 Avant-garde Art 34, 39, 104, 113, 221 Filmmaking 8, 39, 75, 100, 119, 125 Bad Boys of Anarchism, The 103 Barnouw, Erik 196, 214 Barthes, Roland 162 Bazin, André 22, 23, 213 Before the Flood 43–4, 243, 247 Beijing Documentaries about 99–115 As staged city 104 As twilight zone 100 (see also Marginalized subjects) Beijing Bastards 16, 27 Beijing Bicycle 23 Beijing Broadcasting Institute 243, 245 Beijing Film Academy 58, 106, 149, 173, 214, 238, 241, 244, 246, 248, 249, 250 Beijing Film Studio 241 Belfast, Maine 51 Benjamin, Walter 67, 73, 74, 226 Berlant, Lauren 93 Berlin International Film Festival 246, 247 Berlin, Symphony of a City 75, 145 Berry, Chris 82, 101, 180, 198, 204 Bertolucci, Bernardo 244 Besiege the City by the Country 27 Bi Jiangfeng 19 Bian Zhongyun 153 Bicycle Thief 23 Big-character posters 4, 147 Big Tree County 19 Birth of New China, The 198, 199, 202, 204 Blind Shaft 42, 120 Blue Kite, The 37 Bonitzer, Pascal 162 Box, The 34, 77, 78, 79–80, 81, 82, 84, 86–7, 89, 93, 94, 95, 248 Filmic techniques 79 Links to mainstream audiences 84–5, 87–9 Power relations 85–6 Brokeback Mountain 92 Broomfield, Nick 162–3 296 Index Bumming in Beijing 5–6, 8, 12, 17, 19, 29, 37, 39, 99, 101, 114, 135, 149, 157–9, 161–9, 171, 179, 194, 197–8, 201, 221, 247 Butler, Judith 101 Cao Fei 39, 240 Capturing the Friedmans 208 Catholics in Tibet 19 Censorship 8, 102, 105, 118, 131 Self-censorship 105, 132 Central Academy of Fine Arts (Beijing) 163, 166, 242, 244, 246 Central Drama Institute 243 Central Newsreel and Documentary Film Studio 16 Central Park 200 Chen Jue 99, 160, 161, 199, 238 Chen Kaige 22 Chen Meng 20 Chen Zhen 19 Cherry Lane Theater 149, 150 China Broadcasting 231 China Central Television (CCTV) 16, 19, 20, 26, 31, 44, 99, 123, 157–8, 199, 202, 204, 206, 238, 245 News Division 16 Producer system 30 Reforms within 30 Social Education Department 231 Special Topic Division 16, 28 China Memo Films 241 China. The Arts — The People 160 China Village Self-Governance Film Project 171, 223–4, 228, 247 China Wild Film 245 Chinese Communist Party 58 Control of cultural production 8 Criticism of 23 Official rhetoric 137 Support for documentary 17 TV as mouthpiece of 3, 4 Chinese Cultural Essence Project 46 Chion, Michel 159, 168 Chungkuo-Cina 99 Cinéma du Réel Festival 239 Cinéma vérité 24, 99, 111, 138, 158, 196–7, 202 Circulation of documentaries 11–12 Civic Bureau 223 Civil Rights Movement (USA) 66 Civil society 136 Class-consciousness 66 Clinton, Bill 111 CNEX (Chinese Next) 34 Coal mining 42 Commercialization 31 Of culture 6 Confrontation with authorities 181 Consumer society 64 Contested realism 100 Countryside Focus on 37 Cubitt, Sean 220, 226, 227–8 Cui Jian 162, 164, 168 Cui Zi’en 84, 106–8, 112, 114, 238 Cultural industries State development of 129 Cultural Revolution 4, 6, 18, 22, 140, 147, 152, 153, 154, 190, 213, 219 Culture Fever 177 Dance with Farm Workers 101, 102, 112 Delamu 36–7 Deleuze, Gilles 130 Democracy Wall movement 4, 147 Demolition and Rehousing see Last House Standing Deng Xiaoping 6, 18, 58, 135 Tour to the South 6, 135 Digital video (DV) cameras 3 Accessibility 16, 21, 90 Aesthetic 9, 79 Impact on documentary movement 9, 13, 15, 123, 178, 191, 210 Introduction 8, 10, 148 Mini-DVD technology 33, 169 In personal documentary 217–36 Popularity 34 Regulation 127, 131–4 Use by Wu Wenguang 49–54 Dingzihu (nail household) 145–6 [34.204.196.206] Project MUSE (2024-03-28 23:14 GMT) Index 297 Direct Cinema 24, 25–6, 34, 81, 82, 142, 143, 144, 183, 193, 196, 202 Discourse 130, 134 Counter-discourse 130, 131–2 Documentary as...