The Cinema of Feng Xiaogang: Commercialization and Censorship in Chinese Cinema After 1989

by Zhang Rui and Rui Zhang

Book Overview

Beginning first as a case study of Feng Xiaogang, this book explores Chinese film history since the early 1990s in terms of changes of the Communist Party's film policy, industry reforms, the official promotion of Main Melody films and the emergence and growth of popular cinema. The image of Feng that will emerge in this book is of a filmmaker working under political and economic pressures in a post-socialist state while still striving to create works...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 962209886X
• ISBN13: 9789622098862
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher