From "Minority Film" to "Minority Discourse
Questions of Nationhood and Ethnicity in Chinese Cinema
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8080702 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Yingjin Zhang (0000-0001-9296-6440, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 73-73 |
| Publication date | 1997-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cinema Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0009-7101 • E-ISSN: 1527-2087 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1225676 |
| OpenAlex | W2319720578 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 18 |
| References cited | 3 |
In recent years, cultural critics have returned to the relationship between nationhood and ethnicity with a renewed sense of urgency if not anxiety. This has been, in part, to critique the established paradigms and epistim's (such as the centerperiphery and the majority-minority) and, in part, to reconfigure the geopolitical space in the contemporary world. This study seeks to investigate the functioning of a set of critical categories-ethnicity, race, nation-state-as well as other related terms, such as nation-people, nationalism, state discourse, cultural hegemony, and subjectivity, in the field of Chinese cinema. Proceeding from minority (shaoshu minzu dianying) as a special genre in mainland China to minority as a critical practice in New Chinese Cinema,' I will demonstrate that the categories of the nation and ethnicity have been put to use through a complex process of negotiation in Chinese cinema from the early 1920s to the present. Two levels of such negotiation can be differentiated at this point: the level of filmic discourse (i.e., film narrative and narration) and the level of critical discourse (i.e., film theory and criticism). I shall start with the second level in order to identify issues of crucial importance and then return to the first level by way of reading a number of films that illuminate these issues
Art · Art history · Ethnic group · Humanities · Movie theater · Sociology · Anthropology · China's Ethnic Minorities and Relations · Gender Studies · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
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| Unique citing works | 18 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,62 |
| Citation span | 1997 - 2025 (29) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 18 |