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James Currey Reel Resistance - The Cinema of Jean-Marie Teno
Book SynopsisWeaving together critical analysis and a filmic conversation, this book journeys through the multiple layers of Cameroonian filmmaker Jean-Marie Teno's thematically and aesthetically challenging body of work, framed here as a form of decolonial cinematic resistance. Co-winner African Literature Association Book of the Year - Scholarship Both a monograph and a critical dialogue between academic Melissa Thackway, author of Africa Shoots Back, and the Cameroonian filmmaker Jean-Marie Teno, this collaborative work takes the reader on a journey through Teno's multifaceted on-going filmic reflection on Cameroon and the wider African continent, its socio-political systems, history, memory and cultures. Presenting and contextualizing Teno's cinema, it addresses the notion of political commitment in art and of cinema as a form of resistance. It also considers Teno's filmmaking both in relation to the theoretical and aesthetic debates to have animated West and Central African filmmakers since the 1960s and 1970s, and n relation to documentary filmmaking practices on the continent and beyond. In so doing, the book offers an analysis of the predominant stylistic and thematic traits of Teno's work, examines the individual films and the collective oeuvre, and highlights the evolutions of his film language and concerns. It identifies and explores the committed socio-political and historical themes at play, such as violence, power, history, memory, gender, trauma and exile. It also considers Teno's unwavering focus, both thematically and in his filmmaking choices, on forms and instances of resistance, framing his cinema as a form of decolonial aesthetics.Trade ReviewReel Resistance is an exceptionally fruitful and reciprocally beneficial meeting of minds, a critical and aesthetic dialogue which is singular in tone; one in which the artist and his oeuvre continue to exist, fully and clearly, in themselves, rather that serving as pretexts and prime materials for scholarly investigation and performance of knowledge. Thackway's generous stance and critical analysis heightens the reader's grasp of the place and value of Teno's cinema in the international cultural arena, whilst Teno's bold and brilliant understanding of history and politics makes this work a must for readers, be they scholars or the general public. Reel Resistance is a treasure trove for understanding how the colonial past impacts the cultural present and future, in film and society, eliciting a wealth of creative resistance. * AFRICINE *The book makes an important contribution to the research of film history and the decolonization of Southern Africa. * MEDIENwissenschaft *The scope of their [Thackway and Teno's] exchange is extensive, while also focusing on specific aspects of image, sound, and the conceptualization of history. The tone is candid, with the kind of comfort and frankness that can exist between close intellectual friends. * African Studies Review *There are few monographs on an African filmmaker and even less on a documentary filmmaker, which is fundamentally what Jean-Marie Teno is apart from his only feature film, Clando. This more widely illustrated book therefore deserves to be a milestone. It is all the more so as it is fascinating from start to finish, summoning both the deep erudition of the academic Melissa Thackway in the first part and in the second the detailed answers provided by the filmmaker on his journey, its aspirations and its choices. It is through him a history of African cinema is being written, so much has his commitment never wavered. * Africultures *[I]t is a prime exemplar of solid scholarly research, a bona fide auteur study, not another eclectic digest or mishmash of festivalistic chatter and drawing-room speculations on African film and culture. [...] Reel Resistance is a timely addition to the growing body of critical studies of African filmmakers published over the last three decades. * Framework The Journal of Cinema and Media *This book is testimony to the long-standing collaborative relationship between Melissa Thackway and Jean-Marie Teno, as well as revealing a tremendous relationship even between Teno and the consistency of the message process of his cinema. The mutual assemblage of an incredibly unique text by a stellar scholar and remarkable filmmaker of global repute is a sufficiently complete book of history on documentary filmmaking on the continent. In addition, it equally shows how much further the scholarship and intellectual knowledge productions of African filmmaking can travel. -- African Studies QuarterlyModels an ethical and politically engaged partnership between filmmaker and film critic, revealing the potential such synergy produces. -- Carmela Garritano * Africa is a Country *Table of ContentsIntroduction Part I Documentary Filmmaking in Africa: An Introduction. Defining Documentary - Documentary in Africa - Early African Cinema and the Documentary - Early African Documentary Practices - Into the Eighties... Critical Insights: Reading the Films of Jean-Marie Teno. Committed Cinema: A Poetics of Resistance - The Cinematic I: Subjectivity, Voice - (Hi)stories, Memory: Decolonial Readings of the Past - Spanning Borders: Transnationality, Circulations and Exile Conclusion: For a Decolonial Aesthetics? Part II In Conversation Appendix 1 - The Writings of Jean-Marie Teno Appendix 2 - The Films of Jean-Marie Teno: List of Works, their Technical Details and Synopses
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Zone Books Beyond the Dream Syndicate: Tony Conrad and the
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Zone Books Beyond the Dream Syndicate: Tony Conrad and the
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Wallflower Press Playing to the Camera – Musicians and Musical
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Slovenska kinoteka Lubitsch Can′t Wait – A Collection of Ten
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National University of Singapore Press Of Haunted Spaces: Cinema, Heterotopias, and China's Hyperurbanization
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Directing the Documentary
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Taylor & Francis Kedi
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Ten Years of Studies in Documentary Film
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Ecology Documentaries
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Taylor & Francis Cultural Protest in Journalism Documentary Films and the Arts
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Cinema of Exploration
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Documentary Distribution Toolkit
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Documentary Distribution Toolkit
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Archive Effect
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Approximation
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Taylor & Francis New Indian Cinema in PostIndependence India
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Taylor & Francis Documentarys Awkward Turn
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Taylor & Francis Music and Sound in Documentary Film Routledge Music and Screen Media
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Making a Scene in Documentary Film
Book SynopsisThis collection of iconic interviews helps demystify the documentary filmmaking process by deconstructing the most relevant and important scenes in some of today''s most well-known documentary films. It offers concrete, real-world examples of the situations and decisions that filmmakers navigate. We go behind the scenes with the creators to learn the methodologies and approaches these directors, cinematographers, editors, and sound recordists have taken to bring these amazing documentaries to life.What makes a great scene? Why are they so important in the construction of a great film? The interviews included offer excellent insights from the directors of the award-winning The Truffle Hunters, My Octopus Teacher, Collective, Knock Down the House, Dick Johnson Is Dead, and Trapped; the cinematographer of RBG, Julia, and Fauci; the editor of Time; and sound recordist of Tiger King. Award-winning documentTable of ContentsForeword; 1 - Introduction - Scenes, Styles, and Genres; 2 – Observational - Truffle Hunters; 3 - Interview-Led - Trapped; 4 - Hybrid and Performative - Dick Johnson Is Dead; 5 - Poetic and Character-Led -Time; 6 - Archive - RBG; 7 - Natural History Genre - My Octopus Teacher; 8 - Competition Genre - Knock Down the House; 9 - Investigative Genre – Collective; 10 - Crime Drama Series - Tiger King; Addendum - Film List by Style and Genre; Acknowledgments; Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Summer of Soul ... Or When the Revolution Could
Book SynopsisThe fifth title in the Docalogue series, this book examines Ahmir Questlove Thompson's 2021 documentary, Summer of Soul (Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised).The award-winning film draws on archival footage and interviews to examine the legacy of the Harlem Cultural Festival, a showcase of Black music staged weekly throughout the summer of 1969. The film interrogates this event as a piece of forgotten history and prompts critical reflection on why this history was lost while also raising important questions related to archival preservation and cultural memory. Combining five different perspectives, this book acts both as an intensive scholarly treatment and as a pedagogical guide for how to analyze, theorize, and contextualize a documentary. Together, the essays in this book touch upon key topics related to the study of popular music, musical performance, and audiences; the discovery and reuse of archives and archival documents; and Black studies and AmericaTable of ContentsIntroduction: Constituting a Congregation in/through Summer of Soul Jaimie Baron 1. Summer of Soul: The Angel of History Comes to Harlem Catherine Russell 2. The Black Archival Impulse Lauren McLeod Cramer 3. Beyond Black Woodstock: Summer of Soul as Historical Recovery Landon Palmer 4. A Secret History of the Secret History of the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival: Summer of Soul, the Staple Singers, and the Rockumentary Genre Anthony Kinik 5. “Music in the Air:” Spirituality and Revival in Summer of Soul Michele Prettyman
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Jürgen Böttcher and Documentary Film
Book SynopsisJürgen Böttcher and Documentary Film introduces the reader to this east-German filmmaker who, despite having made 40 films from the east side of the Berlin Wall, is practically unknown.Through the comparison of films made in the same year, one by an American and one by Böttcher, the author places him as ahead of his time in regards to technology, content, and style, and neck-and-neck with contemporary American filmmakers in cinéma vérité/direct cinema. The book moves beyond Böttcher's dramatic biography to explore his role in the history of film. Was it actually the Germans who created sync sound for documentary? When and how were women featured?Offering a concise journey through the history of documentary film within this cultural context, but also a deep-dive into specific case-studies that show the nuances and complexities of classifying film texts, this volume will interest students and scholars of film studies, German cinema, cinéma vérité, film producTable of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: The Biography of Jürgen Böttcher, Filmmaker, and STRAWALDE, Artist Chapter 3: Dramaturgy and Structure in Observational Documentary in 1962 — Jürgen Böttcher’s Ofenbauer (Furnace Builders) and Robert Drew and Richard Leacock’s The ChairChapter 4: The Representation of Women in Observational Cinema — Richard Leacock and Joyce Chopra’s Happy Mother’s Day (Director’s Cut) and Jürgen Böttcher’s Stars, 1963Chapter 5: Jürgen Böttcher and Frederick Wiseman — Institutions and Workplace in Observational Documentary Films in 1984 Chapter 6: Jürgen Böttcher and Barbara Kopple and Reform in Participatory/Reflexive Documentary in 1990 Chapter 7: Conclusion — Documentary Contrasts in Structure, Subject, Place, and Change in Group Identity, and an Expanded Definition of Documentary Modes
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Decolonial Imaginaries in Palestinian
Book SynopsisDecolonial Imaginaries in Palestinian Experimental Film and Video focuses on an underexamined group of female Palestinian filmmakers, highlighting their relevance for thinking through a diverse set of issues relating to decolonial aesthetics, post-nationalism and gender, non-Western ecologies, trauma and memory, diasporic experiences of space, biopolitics, feminist historiography and decolonial temporalities.Positing that these filmmaker-artists radically counter dominant media images of Palestinians, deessentializing Palestinian identity while opening up history and the present to new potentialities and ways of imagining Palestinian futures, Decolonial Imaginaries in Palestinian Experimental Film and Video argues that Palestinian experience is urgently relevant to all of us. As the works address issues of food availability and land use, environmental collapse and forced displacement, Hole explores how such films generate hope, imagine impossible possibilities and offer inspiration and wisdom when it comes to losing and rebuilding.Addressing a fundamentally transnational and understudied area, this book will resonate with readers working in the areas of film and media studies, Palestinian cultural studies, historiography, Middle East studies and experimental film.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Digital Storytelling
Book SynopsisIn this revised and updated edition of the StoryCenter''s popular guide to digital storytelling, StoryCenter founder Joe Lambert offers budding storytellers the skills and tools they need to craft compelling digital stories. Using a Seven Steps approach, Lambert helps storytellers identify the fundamentals of dynamic digital storytelling from conceiving a story, to seeing, assembling, and sharing it. Readers will also find new explorations of the global applications of digital storytelling in education and other fields, as well as additional information about copyright, ethics, and distribution. The book is filled with resources about past and present projects on the grassroots and institutional level, including new chapters specifically for students and a discussion of the latest tools and projects in mobile device-based media. This accessible guide's meaningful examples and inviting tone makes this an essential for any student learning the steps toward digital storytelling.Trade Review"Our innermost and deepest stories often lie buried inside of us. Digital Storytelling is an artistic and technical guide to learning how to find those stories and tell them in the digital age. Hundreds of my students have used this deeply beautiful book to guide their own search and then assist community storytellers in creating stories of their own." -Nina Shapiro-Perl, American University"Digital Storytelling is not your typical text for writing courses—it is a truly engaging history about storytelling that helps students connect to why we even tell stories. Storytelling is an art, and Lambert’s text reflects this. I enjoy using Digital Storytelling to not only teach my students how to become comfortable with telling stories, but to also inspire me on how I approach my storytelling instruction. The text covers the essential elements of storytelling via a storytelling circle that creates a safe environment for the most timid of students to participate in class. There are also plenty of astute examples and references for the students. For a book that averages about 200 pages, this is quite a feat. My students tell me this is a text they enjoy reading and applying the techniques the text offers them in order to help them craft stories with a enhanced sense of creativity and a can-do spirit. This is one of a small collection of texts that students typically do not sell back, instead they share and re-read their text when they need to rejuvenate future stories—some of which have gone on to win awards or shaped capstone texts and films at UHCL. This text is a must for any storytelling course. Your students will thank you for making this their primary text for your course. This new edition updates some of the content to ensure the text remains contextually relevant to the field of storytelling and its related topics in the dynamic academic landscape of digital media communication.Since 2002, Lambert has paid attention to our field and I now consider Lambert a formative researcher and instructor whose text is the go-to text to use when one wants to instruct an engaging course that promotes storytelling in a proactive and humanist manner. Additionally, students take note that the text has been in print since before the advent of digital media and has adapted to remain a text that stays true to the essential aspects of excellent storytelling instruction. Just read the interviews and examples and you will be hooked!" -Debra E. Menconi Clark, University of Houston Clear LakeTable of ContentsChapter 1 – The Work of StoryChapter 2 – Stories of Our LivesInterlude 1: The Legacy of TanyaChapter 3 – A Road Traveled: The Evolution of the Digital Storytelling PracticeChapter 4 – The World of Digital StorytellingInterlude 2: Wynne's StoryChapter 5 – Seven Steps of Digital StorytellingChapter 6 – The Story CircleChapter 7 – To Students: Getting Started in Digital Story Work: Mindsets and MethodsInterlude 3: İlmiye’s Story by Burcu ŞimşekChapter 8 – Approaches to the Scripting Process: Prompts and ProcessesChapter 9 – The Walking Story Circle: Rethinking Digital Storytelling in the Era of Mobile DevicesInterlude 4: Areej's Story by Nikoline LohmannChapter 10 – StoryboardingChapter 11 – Designing in Digital: Working With Digital Imaging, Audio, and VideoInterlude 5: Nellie's Story by Rani SandersonChapter 12 – Distribution, Ethics, and the Politics of EngagementChapter 13 – Applications of Digital StorytellingInterlude 6: Zahid's StoryChapter 14 – Silence Speaks: Interview With Amy HillChapter 15 – Listening To Change: Stories From Alaska’s Native Health Communities: Interview With Laura Revels Chapter 16 – Humanizing Healthcare: A Conversation With Dr. Pip Hardy and Tony SumnerChapter 17 – Transforming Education Through Story Work: A Conversation With Dr. Brooke Hessler Addendum: Silence Speaks: Guidelines for Ethical Practice
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Taylor & Francis The City Symphony Phenomenon
Book SynopsisThe 1920s and 1930s saw the rise of the city symphony, an experimental film form that presented the city as protagonist instead of mere decor. Combining experimental, documentary, and narrative practices, these films were marked by a high level of abstraction reminiscent of high-modernist experiments in painting and photography. Moreover, interwar city symphonies presented a highly fragmented, oftentimes kaleidoscopic sense of modern life, and they organized their urban-industrial images through rhythmic and associative montage that evoke musical structures. In this comprehensive volume, contributors consider the full 80 film corpus, from Manhatta and Berlin: Die Sinfonie der Grosstadt to lesser-known cinematic explorations.Trade Review"The City Symphony Phenomenon: Cinema, Art, and Urban Modernity Between the Wars, a product of scholarly sleuthing and obsession, is a fascinating and valuable achievement."- Charles Musser, Yale University, USA"With the publication of The City Symphony Phenomenon: Cinema, Art, and Urban Modernity Between the Wars, editors Steven Jacobs, Eva Hielscher, and Anthony Kinik have created an invaluable contribution to the understanding of this compelling form of international film modernism."- S. Topiary Landberg, UCSC, USATable of ContentsPart I:Introduction: The City Symphony Phenomenon 1920-1940Steven Jacobs, Anthony Kinik, and Eva HielscherPart II:1. László MoholyNagy and the City (Symphony)Malte Hagener2. Productive City: Ruttmann’s Düsseldorf: Kleiner Film einer großen StadtMichael Cowan3. Minor Paris City SymphoniesChrista Blümlinger4. Kaufman and Kopalin’s MoscowMalcolm Turvey 5. A Parisian in Manhattan: Florey’s Skyscraper SymphonyMerrill Schleier6. D’Errico’s StramilanoJohn David Rhodes7. Belgian Variations on the City Symphony ThemeSteven Jacobs8. Koelinga’s De Steeg: Palimpsest and Parallax HistoriographyIvo Blom9. Schuitema’s De Maasbruggen: City and Film as a ProcessFloris Paalman10. Von Barsy and Von Maydell’s The City that Never Rests: A Port City SymphonyEva Hielscher11. Hauser’s Weltstadt in Flegeljahren: An Americanist City SymphonyEva Hielscher12. Oneway Street: Conrad’s Halsted StreetTom Gunning13. Leyda’s A Bronx Morning JanChristopher Horak14. Kemeny and Lustig’s Sao Paolo, a Symphonia da MetropoleCristina Menguello15. Sparling’s Canadian City SymphoniesAnthony Kinik16. Steiner and Van Dyke’s The CityAnthony KinikPart III:17. A Survey of City Symphonies 19201940Eva Hielscher, Steven Jacobs, and Anthony Kinik
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Following NorbergSchulz
Book SynopsisAnna Ulrikke Andersen, Post-Doctoral Researcher at the University of Oxford, UK, is a Norwegian architectural historian and filmmaker.Trade ReviewAnna has demonstrated that to follow a fellow Norwegian architect of another generation, is to find similarities, to seek coincidences, to shadow, to re-enact, to track, to go along (often in faith), to act under the influence of, to act under the shadow of, to carry the weight of this person, and in so doing, to put her own writing self at risk. To follow is also to admire, to support, to understand. The book ... has qualities of a detective novel where clues are allowed to travel their distance, to expend their conclusions, and to spin more questions about the missing protagonist. * Site-Reading Writing Quarterly *Andersen’s approach is unconventional, but also compelling and timely. On the one hand, it draws on recent attempts at developing critical spatial practice in postgraduate practice-based research programs, where the designer’s skillsets and creative output are utilized as research method. Simultaneously, her book is published amidst a wide-ranging questioning of the assumptions underpinning the field of architectural phenomenology. Yet Andersen manages to practice phenomenology in an open and self-reflective way, able to critically re-engage the difficulties and failings in Norberg-Schulz’s approach while displaying a poetic sensibility that allows for a more refined appreciation of his position. * Montreal Architectural Review *Anna Ulrikke Andersen’s wondrous book is many things at once: a window onto the work of the Norwegian architectural theorist, an artist’s probing journey of discovery and persistent self-examination, a portal to imaginative interventions that frame and reframe Norberg-Schulz’s legacy from ever different angles. A true tour de force, as insightful and critically demanding as creative and aesthetically playful! * Lutz Koepnick, Vanderbilt University, USA *A truly original piece of work with an innovative methodology that combines archival historical research with artistic and documentary film practice. Andersen provides a situated critical evaluation of the work and ideas of an influential, yet misunderstood, figure in the history, theory and practice of 20th century architecture, approaching the subject matter with intelligence and care. * Penelope Haralambidou, University College London, UK *Table of ContentsList of illustrations Framework Christian Norberg-Schulz (1926-2000) The Essay form in Film and Writing Itinerary Acknowledgements Maps Window 1 | Trondheim Place Practice Essay: The Sound of a Windowpane Shattering Window 2 | Oslo Place Practice Essay: By the Window Window 3 | Journey Place Practice Essay: At the Window of a Train Window 4 | Hamburg – Basel Place Practice Essay: Three Windows on Europe 1945 Window 5 | Rome Place Practice Essay: Fill in that window! Move into that Frame! Window 6 | Piazza Navona Place Practice Essay: A Campari-Moment by the Water Fountain Window 7 | Calcata Place Practice Essay: Are we not here to Say…Window Window 8 | Sierre Place Practice Essay: Les Fenêtres – en norvégien Window 9 | Oslo Place Practice Essay: Returned, X-rayed and Exposed Window 10 | Trondheim Place Practice Essay: Beyond the Network – ‘Upon’ Return Coda Appendix Christian Norberg-Schulz’s CV Books by or about Rainer Maria Rilke in Christian Norberg-Schulz’s Library References to Rainer Maria Rilke in Christian Norberg-Schulz’s Authorship Bibliography Index
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd Ghosts on the Somme Filming the Battle JuneJuly
Book SynopsisPaperback edition of the highly praised in-depth study of the most famous documentary film of the Great War
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Hong Kong University Press Remade in Hollywood The Global Chinese Presence
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Hong Kong University Press Masculinities and Hong Kong Cinema
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Hong Kong University Press Mabel Cheung YuenTings An Autumns Tale
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Hong Kong University Press Horror to the Extreme Changing Boundaries in
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Hong Kong University Press Cinema at the Citys Edge Film and Urban Networks
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Hong Kong University Press Wang Renmei: The Wildcat of Shanghai
Book SynopsisWang Renmei was on a fast track to become one of China's leading film stars in the 1930s. Her early films were received with magnificent praise by audiences and critics alike, though she later lamented that she became famous too early and never had a chance to properly study acting. The film Song of the Fishermen in which she sang and played a major role was the first Chinese motion picture to win an International Award in Moscow in 1935. Wang's personal struggles reflected the turbulent period from the end of the Qing dynasty to the rise of Deng Xiaoping. This study explores her artistic achievements amid the prevalent anti-feminist and feudal society in China prior to the founding of the People's Republic in 1949-attitudes which contributed to the downturn of Wang's promising career and forced her to accept various bit parts among the more than twenty films in which she appeared. In addition, personal problems as well as the Anti-Rightist Movement and the Cultural Revolution led to her hospitalization for mental illness. Wang's life is emblematic of the experiences of many left-wing and Communist Party members from the Shanghai film community who were viewed with suspicion and enmity by the Yan'an clique headed by Mao and later the Gang of Four. Wang's performances in World War II for the Nationalist troops as well as her work with the US forces in China had a dire effect on her career after 1949. Yet today, her films are being discovered again. About the DVDWild Rose???[Ye Meigui] 1932Xiao Feng or Little Wind, played by Wang Renmei, is a young girl who has lost her parents. Jiang Bo, played by Jin Yan, is a wealthy painter who discovers Xiao Feng in a small fishing village and makes her his model. When Xiao Feng is left homeless after a fire destroys her home, Jiang takes her to Shanghai to live with his parents, but Xiao Feng is later expelled from the mansion by Jiang's father because she cannot act the part of a sophisticated Shanghainese.
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