The Poetics of Chinese Cinema.

Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Introduction: The Poetics of Chinese Cinema -- Poetics and Precedents -- Avenues of Investigation -- Chapter 2: Five Lessons from Stealth Poetics -- Norms and Forms -- Rules-No, Guidelines -- Long Takes, Long Lenses -- Asian, Minimally? -- All Together Now -- Chapter 3: Red Poetics: The Films of the Chinese Cultural Revolution Revolutionary Model Operas -- The "Model Works" -- Genealogy of a Hybrid -- The Three Prominences -- Cinematic Poetics of the Model Works -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4: Renewal of Song Dynasty Landscape Painting Aesthetics Combined with a Contemplative Modernism in the Early Work of Chen Kaige -- Chapter 5: Poetics of Two Springs: Fei Mu versus Tian Zhuangzhuang -- Two Springs -- Two Traditions -- The Traditional Modernist -- Staging -- Editing -- Voiceover -- Conclusion: The Lost Opportunity -- Chapter 6: Remaking Ozu: Hou Hsiao-hsien's Café Lumière -- Café Lumière Prism -- Café Lumière segmentation -- Yoko's Six Days -- Into the Dark: Tokyo Twilight -- Reunion with Jiang Wenye: A Glimpse of the Empire's Edge -- Into the Light: A Coda -- Chapter 7: Hong Kong Puzzle Films: The  Persistence of Tradition -- Puzzles and Practices: Peter Chan and Wu Xia (2011) -- Screenwriting Practices at Milkyway Image -- A Complex Case: Blind Detective (Johnnie To, 2013) -- Reconsiderations -- Chapter 8: Can Poetics Break Bricks? -- The Poetics of Spectacle -- The Poetics of Slowness -- The Politics of Poetics -- Chapter 9: Poetics of Parapraxis and Reeducation: The Hong Kong Cantonese Cinema in the 1950s -- From the Cantonese Theatre to the Cantonese Style of Narration -- The Union Film Enterprise and Its Parapractical Poetics -- In the Face of Demolition: A Narrative of Reeducation -- Conclusion.

Chapter 10: China as Documentary: Some Basic Questions (Inspired by Michelangelo Antonioni and Jia Zhangke) -- A Contested Documentary About China -- The Frontal Pose -- Photographic or Documentary Realism as Loss or the Place of the Subject -- Documentary Realism in the Age of Digital Synchronisation: Preliminary Remarks on Jia Zhangke -- Funding -- Bibliography -- Index.

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