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140507
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This article examines the moving image works of Chinese artist Cao Fei as a response to China’s rapid urbanization and the transformation of its existing urban spaces which are no longer shaped by socialism but instead by what this article considers as China’s engagement with neo-liberalism, including and facilitated by globalization. The urban sprawl of the Pearl River Delta inspired Rem Koolhaas’s writings on the ‘generic city’, which he celebrates precisely for its blandness. Cao herself is from Guangzhou. Yet, in works such as RMB City, Haze and Fog, Whose Utopia, and Hip Hop: Guangzhou, Cao creates what she calls ‘magical metropolises’. This article asks what kind of responses Cao’s ‘magical’ works are to contemporary Chinese urbanization. As part of the answer to this question, it applies four hermeneutic frameworks to analyse the works themselves. The findings from each of those frameworks indicate that Cao’s work not only reflects the current Chinese urban condition, but also participates and intervenes in it in various ways.
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Fall 2010.
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This essay aims to rethink and remap contemporary Chinese cinema studies. In Past few years there have been many new developments and experiments in the films scenes of mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong, and the Chinese film industries are undergoing dramatic restructuring. The author argues for an understanding of "Chinese cinema" in close reference to the recent advent of global cinema. Such understanding also has to take into account the internal stratification among various film practices no longer organized only according to its specific culture
Geography (mainland, Taiwan, and Hong-Kong) but also according to different modes of Filmmaking and different sectors.
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