{"product_id":"9781517914035-chinese-film","title":"Chinese Film","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRealism and Convention from the Silent Era to the Digital Age\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA tour de force chronicling the development of realism in Chinese cinema\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe history of Chinese cinema is as long and complicated as the tumultuous history of China itself. Be it the silent, the Communist, or the contemporary, each Chinese cinematic era has necessitated its own form in conversation with broader trends in politics and culture. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eChinese Film,\u003c\/i\u003e Jason McGrath tells this fascinating story by tracing the varied claims to cinematic realism made by Chinese filmmakers, officials, critics, and scholars. Understanding realism as a historical dynamic that is both enabled and mitigated by aesthetic conventions of the day, he analyzes it across six different types of claims: ontological, perceptual, fictional, social, prescriptive, and apophatic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThrough this method, McGrath makes major claims not just about Chinese cinema but also about realism as an aesthetic form that negotiates between cultural conventions and the ever-evolving real. He comes to envision it as more than just a cinematic question, showing how the struggle for realism is central to the Chinese struggle for modernity itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40811363467361,"sku":"9781517914035","price":24.86,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_38204636_bcf4963b-b0c2-4fff-a0ae-d035545b58a3.jpg?v=1763801125","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781517914035-chinese-film","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}