{"product_id":"chinese-film-realism-and-convention-from-the-silent-era-to-the-digital-age-9781517914028","title":"Chinese Film: Realism and Convention from the","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA tour de force chronicling the development of realism in Chinese cinema\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe history of Chinese cinema is as long and complicated as the tumultuous history of China itself. Be it the silent, the Communist, or the contemporary, each Chinese cinematic era has necessitated its own form in conversation with broader trends in politics and culture. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eChinese Film,\u003c\/i\u003e Jason McGrath tells this fascinating story by tracing the varied claims to cinematic realism made by Chinese filmmakers, officials, critics, and scholars. Understanding realism as a historical dynamic that is both enabled and mitigated by aesthetic conventions of the day, he analyzes it across six different types of claims: ontological, perceptual, fictional, social, prescriptive, and apophatic.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough this method, McGrath makes major claims not just about Chinese cinema but also about realism as an aesthetic form that negotiates between cultural conventions and the ever-evolving real. He comes to envision it as more than just a cinematic question, showing how the struggle for realism is central to the Chinese struggle for modernity itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \"This magisterial book is an extraordinary landmark in both Chinese film studies and the broader exploration of cinema itself. In his multifaceted paradigm of realism, Jason McGrath finds a master code for understanding Chinese film across the span of its history: conceptually vivid and analytically riveting, this superb study is a must-read for any student or scholar of the moving image.\"—Margaret Hillenbrand, author of \u003ci\u003eNegative Exposures: Knowing What Not to Know in Contemporary China\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \"Meticulously researched, \u003ci\u003eChinese Film\u003c\/i\u003e focuses on the multiple manifestations of realism in the longue durée history, tracking a key aesthetic-political articulation embedded in the film medium in general and Chinese cinema in particular. Especially valuable is Jason McGrath’s insistence on situating each mode of realism and its transformation within richly textured historical contexts.\"—Yiman Wang, author of \u003ci\u003eRemaking Chinese Cinema: Through the Prism of Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Hollywood\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eChinese Film: Realism and Convention from the Silent Era to the Digital Age\u003c\/i\u003e is one of the most ambitious, thought-provoking, and groundbreaking works on the subject to date.\"—\u003ci\u003eModern Chinese Literature \u0026amp; Cultures\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \"This magnum opus—the fruit of many years’ work and thought—rethinks cinematic realism and proposes it as a conceptual framework for making sense of Chinese cinema as a whole.\"—\u003ci\u003eThe China Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eChinese Film\u003c\/i\u003e is ambitious both in its historical scope and intellectual claims. (One sometimes wonders, in fact, what isn’t encompassed by McGrath’s expansive typology of realisms.) Well written and researched, the book is sure to reach a broad audience in film studies.\"—\u003ci\u003eChina Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \"McGrath offers a cross-cultural perspective with scholarly research and cinematic examples from China and other cultures including the United States, France, Korea, Iran, and Japan. His approach bridges the distances that may exist between these cultures, and the book’s in-depth engagement with a multitude of writings on cinematic realism provides a solid theoretical foundation for the historical study of Chinese cinematic realism.\"—\u003ci\u003eFilm Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e   \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409724350807,"sku":"9781517914028","price":86.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781517914028.jpg?v=1730507804","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/chinese-film-realism-and-convention-from-the-silent-era-to-the-digital-age-9781517914028","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}