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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS New Chinese Cinemas : Forms Identities Politics by Edited by Nick Browne , Edited by Paul G. Pickowicz , Edited by Vivian Sobchack , Edited by Esther Yau
New Chinese Cinemas analyses the changing forms and significance of filmmaking in the Peoples Republic of China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong since the end of the Cultural Revolution, with a particular emphasis on how film comments on the profound social changes that have occurred in East Asia over the past two decades. Considering in detail both conservative and progressive stances on economic modernisation, it also demonstrates how film has been an important formal structure and social document in the interpretation of these changes. The essays collected here, which were specially commissioned for this volume, also offer extended analyses of the important trends, styles and work that define Chinese filmmaking in the 1980s.show more