
China's iGeneration
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Foreword: China’s iGeneration: From Film Studies to Screen Studies
Chris Berry
Acknowledgements
Notes on Transliteration
List of Figures and Tables
Introduction: China’s iGeneration Cinema
Keith B. Wagner, Tianqi Yu with Luke Vulpiani
Part One
Technologies
1 Toward a Communicative Practice: Female First-Person Documentary in Twenty-first Century China Tianqi Yu
2
Quasi-Documentary, Cellflix and Web Spoofs: Chinese Movies’ Other Visual Pleasures Paola Voci
3
Individuality, State Discourse and Visual Representation: The Imagination and Practices of the iGeneration in Chinese Animation Weihua Wu
4 Cinema of Exhibition: Film in Chinese Contemporary Art
Dong Bingfeng
Part Two
Aesthetics
5 Goodbye to the Grim Real, Hello to What Comes Next: The Moment of Passage from the Sixth Generation to the iGeneration
Luke Vulpiani
6
Digitizing City Symphony, Stabilizing the Shadow of Time: Montage and Temporal–Spatial Construction in San Yuan Li Ling Zhang
7 From Pirate to Kino-eye: A Genealogical Tale of Film Re-Distribution in China
Dan Gao
8
Xue Jianqiang as Reckless Documentarian: Underdevelopment and Juvenile Crime in post-WTO China Keith B. Wagner
Part Three
Social Engagement
9 Of Animals and Men: Towards a Theory of Docu-ani-mentary
Yiman Wang
10 Working with Rubble: Montage, Tweets and the Reconstruction of an Activist Documentary
Ying Qian
11 Provincializing the Chinese Mediascape: Cantonese Digital Activism in Southern China Jia
Tan
Part Four
Platforms and Politics
12 Interpreting ScreenSpaces at the Shanghai Expo and Beyond Jeesoon Hong with Matthew D. Johnson
13 Regarding the Grassroots Chinese Inde pendent Film Festivals: Modes of Multiplicity and Abnormal Film Networking
Ma Ran
14 Bringing the Transnational Back into Documentary Cinema: Wu Wenguang’s China Village Documentary Project, Participatory Video and the NGO Aesthetic
Matthew D. Johnson
15 The Cinematic Deng Xiaoping: Scripting a Leader or a ‘Traitor’?
Xiaomei Chen
Part Five
Online Audiences
16 Zhang Yimou’s Sexual Storytelling and the iGeneration: Contending Shanzhashu Zhi Lian (Under the Hawthorn Tree) on Douban
Ralph Parfect
17 From the Glaring Sun to Flying Bullets: Aesthetics and Memory in the ‘Post-’ Era Chinese Cinema
Xiao Liu
Notes on Contributors
Index
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