Economy, Emotion, and Ethics in Chinese Cinema: Globalization on Speed

By David Leiwei Li

Book Overview

This book investigates major Chinese-language films from mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong in order to unpack a hyper-compressed capitalist modernity with distinctive Chinese characteristics. As a dialogue between the film genre as a mediation of microscopic social life, and the narrative of economic development as a macroscopic political abstraction, it engages the two otherwise remotely related worlds, illustrating how the State and the Subject are reconstituted cinematically in late capitalism.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138019313
• ISBN13: 9781138019317
• Release Date: May 2017
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"