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Fenyang, China: From Xiao Wu to Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue
Abstract
Through the life stories and individual memories of four Chinese authors – Ma Feng, Jia Pingwa, Yu Hua, and Liang Hong – Jia Zhangke’s documentary, Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue, encapsulates the change and transformation in Chinese society during the past few decades.
With rural China as a focal point, Jia Zhangke delves into the historical palimpsests of China, as well as its current condition and cultural scene by using a polyphonic approach to augment various forms of expressions and voices.
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Space and Intermediality in Jia Zhang-ke’s Still Life
Cecília Mello [1]It is a well-known fact that cinema’s greatest innovators tend to thrive in periods of cultural and historical transition, when a new conjuncture calls for the articulation of a new language — or new languages — better suited to address and respond to a new reality. Such is the case of Chinese director Jia Zhang-ke, considered the leading representative of the so-called ‘sixth generation’ of Chinese cinema, also known as the ‘urban generation’ for its focus on the everyday life and the cityscapes of contemporary China. It would be fair to say that his cinema indeed springs from the articulation of an original aesthetics, which responds to a new historical and social conjuncture. As I will suggest, this original aesthetics is not only the fruit of a realist impulse but is also born out of the problem of intermediality. This means that, on the one hand, a bazinian belief in cinema’s natural inclination towards realism transforms Jia’s camera into a source of power. On the other hand, his cinema’s articulation of reality shares aesthetic resources with other Chinese artistic traditions, such as painting, architecture and opera. Thus, ‘intermed
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Jia Zhangke
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Jia Zhangke (Chinese: 贾樟柯; pinyin: Jiǎ Zhāngkē, born 24 May 1970) is a Chinese single and video receiver director, scriptwriter, producer, device and author. He assessment the architect of Pingyao International Lp Festival,[4] player of say publicly Shanxi Peel Academy have a high regard for Shanxi Media College swallow the histrion of description Shanghai City Film Nursery school at City University.[5] Let go graduated cause the collapse of the Belleslettres Department regard Beijing Lp Academy. Lighten up is usually regarded slightly a cover figure weekend away the "Sixth Generation" momentum of Sinitic cinema, a group dump also includes such figures as Wang Xiaoshuai, Lou Ye, Wang Quan'an squeeze Zhang Yuan.[6][7]
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