Reinventing China: A Generation and Its Films

by Paul Clark

Book Overview

A pioneering study of the startlingly original films by Chinese filmmakers of the 1980s, such as Judou, Raise the Red Lantern, and Farewell My Concubine. These films bring into vivid relief changes in Chinese society over several decades, drawing on interviews with directors including Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige, and Tian Zhuangzhuang.

Paul Clark's Chinese Cinema: Culture and Politics since 1949 was a groundbreaking...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9629962306
• ISBN13: 9789629962302
• Release Date: July 2006
• Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher