In Search of Real-Life Images in China
Realism in the age of spectacle
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12422154 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ban Wang (0000-0003-2880-9752, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 56 |
| Pages | 497-512 |
| Publication date | 2008-06-19 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Contemporary China (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1067-0564 • E-ISSN: 1469-9400 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10670560802000282 |
| OpenAlex | W1971735655 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
This essay re-examines new realism in documentary film and photography in China. Distinct from official realism, genuine realism requires that experience be seen within its real environment and characters and actions of a realist work be shaped by that environment. This principle challenges the visual regime of spectacle controlled by the expanding global cultural industry. Documentary realism represents a penetrating social comment but also recovers a materialist understanding of workers' life and conditions in China. Photo-realism on the other hand uncovers the forgotten ways of life among ordinary people in the fast modernization of the cities
Aesthetics · Art · China · Critical realism (philosophy of perception · Direct and indirect realism · Epistemology · Materialism · Modernization theory · Philosophical realism · Political science · Realism · Social realism · Sociology · Spectacle · Visual arts · Asian Culture and Media Studies · Cinema and Media Studies · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Law · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,12 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2018 (10) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |