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Cinema Approaching Reality: Locating Chinese Film Theory
Victor Fan
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Description for Cinema Approaching Reality: Locating Chinese Film Theory
Paperback. Num Pages: 296 pages, 26. BIC Classification: 1FPC; APFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 144 x 20. Weight in Grams: 418.
In Cinema Approaching Reality, Victor Fan brings together, for the first time, Chinese and Euro-American film theories and theorists to engage in critical debates about film in Shanghai and Hong Kong from the 1920s through 1940s. His point of departure is a term popularly employed by Chinese film critics during this period, bizhen, often translated as lifelike but best understood as approaching reality. What these Chinese theorists mean, in Fan's reading, is that the cinematographic image is not a form of total reality, but it can allow spectators to apprehend an effect as though they had been there ... Read more
In Cinema Approaching Reality, Victor Fan brings together, for the first time, Chinese and Euro-American film theories and theorists to engage in critical debates about film in Shanghai and Hong Kong from the 1920s through 1940s. His point of departure is a term popularly employed by Chinese film critics during this period, bizhen, often translated as lifelike but best understood as approaching reality. What these Chinese theorists mean, in Fan's reading, is that the cinematographic image is not a form of total reality, but it can allow spectators to apprehend an effect as though they had been there ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816693573
SKU
V9780816693573
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About Victor Fan
Victor Fan is lecturer in film studies at King's College London. He has contributed extensively to academic journals, including Screen, Film History, and Camera Obscura.
Reviews for Cinema Approaching Reality: Locating Chinese Film Theory
Erudite, thought-provoking and lucidly composed. Cinema Approaching Reality fills a giant gap in Chinese film studies as the first comprehensive and imaginative study of key theoretical debates on cinema in China and Hong Kong before 1950. More importantly, Victor Fan bridges or reestablishes the historical and philosophical connections between the Chinese discourses and Western film theory within the global context ... Read more