Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-225), filmography (pages 213-216), and index.
Contents:
9. Cinematic Western China: An Open Space For Spatial Imagination. 1. Cinematic Western China: The Under-Represented Cinematic Cities -- Chinese Western Cinema -- Chinese Cities and Cinema: An Imbalanced Representation -- Organisation of the Book -- pt. II CINEMATIC CHONGQING -- 2. History, Cityscape And Spatial Stratification -- Chongqing in Films: A Brief Account -- The Stratification of High and Low Spaces -- 3. National Project And Disappearing Space -- Rainclouds over Wushan: Lived Space Matters -- Still Life: Expectation becomes Stillness from Wushan to Fengjie -- pt. III CINEMATIC CHENGDU -- 4. Spaces Of Consumption Replace Spaces Of Production -- Chengdu in Films -- 24 City: Making Way for a Modern Space -- 5. Natural Disaster And Trauma -- Buddha Mountain: Nature, a Railway Station and Religious Redemption -- pt. IV CINEMATIC XI'AN -- 6. From An Enclosed Traditional Space To A Sprawling Urban Space -- Xi'an and Adjacent Area on Screen -- Back to Back, Face to Face: The Flâneur Walking in an Enclosed Space -- 7. Female Space And Bodies -- The Story of Ermei: Female Social Status in Rural and Urban Spaces -- Weaving Girl: State-owned Enterprise and the Female Worker -- pt. V CINEMATIC LANZHOU -- 8. Contrast Between The Urban And The Rural Regarding Mental And Social Space -- The Cinematic City as an Absent Presence -- pt. VI CONCLUSION -- 9. Cinematic Western China: An Open Space For Spatial Imagination.
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