Renegotiating Jia Zhangke’s Contestious Auteurism on Douban
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23200825 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dorothy Wai Sim Lau (0000-0002-6355-3695, Hong Kong Baptist University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 153-171 |
| Publication date | 2024-04-25 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Chinese Film Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2702-2277 • E-ISSN: 2702-2285 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/jcfs-2023-0035 |
| OpenAlex | W4393516962 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 21 |
This article focuses on sixth-generation mainland Chinese auteur Jia Zhangke and examines how his independent filmmaker’s profile is renegotiated and reevaluated on Douban, a China-based platform for cultural commentary. Whereas Douban allows viewers to rate a film, post a review of any length, and comment on other posts, it manifests a self-censoring tendency with sustained state control. Examining in Jia’s contentious auteurism through a “post-independent’ lens, this article recounts how Douban users approach and interpret Jia’s more recent titles such as Ash Is Purest White (2018) and Swimming Out till the Sea Turns Blue (2020) that pose a question of whether Jia’s auteurism is perpetuated. The account extends to the controversies surrounding Jia’s departure from and re-entry to the independently-run, government-supported Pingyao International Film Festival, which took place in 2020 and 2021 and have further perplexed his established brand. Contextualizing Jia’s Douban-represented authorial identity in China’s platform-based cultural production, this analysis unravels the intricate dynamics of market logic, state governance, and audience agency in the rise of the mass media-saturated intertextuality and crossover capitals.
China · Government (linguistics) · Media studies · Political science · Sociology · Cinema and Media Studies · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Law · Philosophy
The Power of the Internet in China
The Formation of Chinese Art Cinema
It is all about qingnian dianying
From Chinese independent cinema to art cinema
Contemporary Mainstream PRC Cinema
The Independent Cinema of Jia Zhangke
Jia Zhangke’s Hometown Trilogy
Minjian
Reading docufiction
The genesis, structure and transformation of the contemporary Chinese cinematic field
Between formal and informal
Postsocialist Modernity
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |