DV-Made China: Digital Subjects and Social Transformations after Independent Film 9780824854317
In 1990s post-Reform China, a growing number of people armed with video cameras poured out upon the Chinese landscape to
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Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
PART ONE Ethical and Political Stakes
CHAPTER 1. Marking The Body
CHAPTER 2. The Cruelty of the Social
CHAPTER 3. Filming Power and the Powerless
CHAPTER 4. The Spectacular Crowd
CHAPTER 5. DV-Made Tibet
CHAPTER 6. Chinese Independent Cinema in the Age of “Digital Distribution”
PART TWO Aesthetic and Activist Experiments
CHAPTER 7. Chinese Digital Shadows
CHAPTER 8. The Recalcitrance of Reality
CHAPTER 9. Crossing Cameras in China
CHAPTER 10. DV and the Animateur Cinema in China
CHAPTER 11. “To Whom Do Our Bodies Belong?”
CHAPTER 12. Toward a Digital Political Mimesis
APPENDIX I: Chinese and Non-Chinese Filmography/Videography
APPENDIX II: Tibetan Filmography/ Videography
Contributors
Index
