Includes bibliographical references, filmography, and index.
Contents:
Pt. 1. Cultural context -- Paul G. Pickowicz and Yingjin Zhang, "Introduction: documenting China independently" -- Yingjin Zhang, "Who's afraid of the documentary camera" refiguring reality, memory, and power in Chinese independent documentary -- Yomi Braester, "For whom does the director speak" the ethics of representation in documentary film criticism -- Pt. 2. Rural reconfigurations -- Angie Chau, "From root-searching to grassroots: returning to the countryside in contemporary Chinese fiction and independent documentary film" -- Paul G. Pickowicz, "Zou Xueping's postsocialist homecoming" -- Pt. 3. Embodied filmmaking -- Tong Wang, "Looking back while marching forward: reconfiguration of selfhood in the folk memory project" -- Laura Kissel, "The memory project and other ways of knowing: filmmaking, affect, and embodied knowledge" -- Pt. 4. Documentary enactments -- Alvin Wong, "Gendering intersubjectivity in new Chinese documentary: feminist multiplicity and vulnerable masculinity in postsocialist China" -- Yiman Wang, "From bumming to roaming: Xu Tong's the Drifters trilogy" -- Hongjian Wang, "Documenting through reenacting: revisiting the performative mode in Chinese independent documentaries" Appendix: Michael Berry, "Memory/document: in dialogue with Wu Wenguang's memory project" -- Filmography.
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