In this Book
- Chinese Ecocinema: In the Age of Environmental Challenge
- Book
- 2009
- Published by: Hong Kong University Press, HKU
summary
This anthology is the first book-length study of China's ecosystem through the lens of cinema. Proposing "ecocinema" as a new critical framework, the volume collectively investigates a wide range of urgent topics in today's world: Chinese and Western epistemes of nature and humanity; the dialect of socialist modernization amid capitalist globalization; shifting configurations of space, locale, cityscape, and natural landscape; gender, religion, and ethnic cultures; as well as bioethics and environmental politics.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-x
- List of Contributors
- pp. xi-xiii
- Introduction
- pp. 1-14
- Part I. Hydro-Politics: Water, River, and National Trauma
- Part II. Eco-Aesthetics, Heteroscape, and Manufactured Landscape
- Part III. Urban Space in Production and Disappearance
- Part IV. Bioethics, Non-Anthropocentrism, and Green Sovereignty
- Chinese Glossary
- pp. 325-328
- Bibliography
- pp. 333-351
Additional Information
ISBN
9789882205376
Related ISBN(s)
9789622090859
MARC Record
OCLC
707092915
Pages
384
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No
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