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Painting the City Red: Chinese Cinema and the Urban Contract

Painting the City Red: Chinese Cinema and the Urban Contract

Braester, Yomi

Hardcover

Series: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society

Chinese HistoryFilm Studies

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ISBN10: 0822347067
ISBN13: 9780822347064
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Apr 7 2010
Pages: 424
Weight: 1.65
Height: 1.30 Width: 6.90 Depth: 9.80
Language: English
Painting the City Red illuminates the dynamic relationship between the visual media, particularly film and theater, and the planning and development of cities in China and Taiwan, from the emergence of the People's Republic in 1949 to the staging of the Beijing Olympics in 2008. Yomi Braester argues that the transformation of Chinese cities in recent decades is a result not only of China's abandonment of Maoist economic planning in favor of capitalist globalization but also of a shift in visual practices. Rather than simply reflect urban culture, movies and stage dramas have facilitated the development of new perceptions of space and time, representing the future city variously as an ideal socialist city, a metropolis integrated into the global economy, and a site for preserving cultural heritage.

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