Youth Culture in Chinese Language Film
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academy
Author_Xuelin Zhou
beijing
Beijing Bicycle
Bird's Eye
Bird’s Eye
Blue Gate Crossing
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Category=JBCC1
Category=JBCT
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Category=NHTB
Chen Kaige's Yellow Earth
Chen Kaige’s Yellow Earth
china
Chinese Cinema
Chinese Film Studies
Chinese Language Film
cinema
coming of age narratives
contemporary Chinese youth film analysis
Contemporary Society
East Asian cinema
Education System
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eq_history
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Gao Ping
gender and sexuality studies
genre
Healthy Realism
Jia Zhangke
mainland
Mainland China
Neon God
Oyster Girl
Red Fish
rural urban migration
Smoking Filter Cigarettes
social change analysis
Spring River Flows East
taiwan
Taiwan Cinema
Taiwan Film Industry
Tian Zhuangzhuang
wang
Wang Xiaoshuai
xiaoshuai
Young Man
Youth Films
youth identity formation
zhang
Zhang Yimou
Product details
- ISBN 9781138678064
- Weight: 540g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 09 Aug 2016
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This book explores the vigorous film cultures of mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong from the perspective of youth culture. The book relates this important topic to the wider social, cultural, and institutional context, and discusses the relationship between the films and the changes that today are transforming each society. Among the areas explored are the differences between the three film industries, their creation of new types of screen hero and heroine, and their conflicts with traditional Chinese attitudes such as respect for age. The many films discussed provide fresh perspectives on the ways in which young people are coping with gender, sexuality, class, coming of age, the pressures of education, and major social shifts such as rural to urban migration. They show young adults in each society striving to construct new value systems for a complex, rapidly changing environment.
Xuelin Zhou is a senior lecturer in Media, Film and Television at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.
