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- Title
Realisms within Conundrum.
- Authors
Cheung, Esther M. K.
- Abstract
With persistent efforts on constructing personal and collective memories arising from the unprecedented transformations in post-socialist China, Jia Zhangke has produced an ensemble of realist films with an impressive personal and authentic appeal. This paper examines how his films are characterised by a variety of accents, images of authenticity, a quotidian ambience, and a new sense of materiality within the local-global nexus. Within a tripartite model of truth, identity, and performance, Jia's oeuvres demonstrate the powerful performativity of different modes of realism arising out of a state of conundrum when China undergoes a transition from planned economy into wholesale marketisation and globalisation.
- Subjects
CHINA; REALISM in motion pictures; RIDDLES; JIA, Zhangke, 1970-; ECONOMIC globalization -- Developing countries; GLOBALIZATION in motion pictures; AUTHENTICITY in motion pictures; ECONOMIC conditions in China; CHINA in motion pictures
- Publication
China Perspectives, 2010, Vol 2010, Issue 1, p11
- ISSN
2070-3449
- Publication type
Article