China on Video

Bibliographic Data

ID7533489
AuthorsPaola Voci (0000-0003-2301-5937, University of Otago, corresponding author)
Year2010
Publication date2010-06-10
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueChina on video (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9780203850107
OpenAlexW4250958741
ISBN9780203850107
LanguageEN
Citations received45

China On Video is the first in-depth study that examines smaller-screen realities and the important role they play not only in the fast-changing Chinese mediascape, but also more broadly in the practice of experimental and non-mainstream cinema. At the crossroads of several disciplines—film, media, new media, media anthropology, visual arts, contemporary China area studies, and cultural studies--this book reveals the existence of a creative, humorous, but also socially and politically critical "China on video", which locates itself outside of the intellectual discourse surrounding both auteur cinema and digital art. By describing smaller-screen movies, moviemaking and viewing as light realities, Voci points to their "insignificant" weight in terms of production costs, distribution size, profit gains, intellectual or artistic ambitions, but also their deep meaning in defining an alternative way of seeing and understanding the world. The author proposes that lightness is a concept that can usefully be deployed to describe the moving image, beyond the specificity of recent new media developments and which can, in fact, help us rethink previous cinematic practices in broad terms both spatially and temporally

Archaeology · China · Geography · Asian Culture and Media Studies · Computer Science · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics

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