| ID | 082729 |
| Title Proper | In search of real-life images in China |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Wang, Ban |
| Publication | 2008. |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | This essay re-examines new realism in documentary film and photography in China. Distinct from official realism, genuine realism requires that experience be seen within its real environment and characters and actions of a realist work be shaped by that environment. This principle challenges the visual regime of spectacle controlled by the expanding global cultural industry. Documentary realism represents a penetrating social comment but also recovers a materialist understanding of workers' life and conditions in China. Photo-realism on the other hand uncovers the forgotten ways of life among ordinary people in the fast modernization of the cities. |
| `In' analytical Note | Journal of Contemporary China Vol. 17, No.56; Aug 2008: p497-512 |
| Journal Source | Journal of Contemporary China Vol. 17, No.56; Aug 2008: p497-512 |
| Key Words | China ; Realism ; Modernization |