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- ISBN 9781841506425
- Weight: 245g
- Dimensions: 153 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 15 Sep 2012
- Publisher: Intellect
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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In a series of spotlight essays and illustrated scene reviews, a cast of seasoned scholars and fresh new voices explore the vast range of films – encompassing drama, madcap comedy, martial arts escapism and magical realism – that have been set in Beijing. Unveiling a city of hidden courtyards, looming skyscrapers and traditional Hutong neighbourhoods, these contributors depict a distinctive urban culture that reflects the conflict and tumult of a nation in transition. With considerations of everything from the back streets of Beijing Bicycle to the forbidden palace of The Last Emperor to the tourist park of The World, this volume is a definitive cinematic guide to an ever-changing and endlessly fascinating capital city.
John Berra, a lecturer in film studies at Nanjing University, is the author of Declarations of Independence: American Cinema and the Partiality of Independent Production and the editor of the Directory of World Cinema: American Independent and the Directory of World Cinema: Japan.
Liu Yang is a lecturer in film studies at Nanjing University.
