Beschreibung
This pivot considers the transformations that the Chinese film industry has gone through since the country opened its doors to the outside world in the late 1970s, moving from an ideologically-centred censorship system to one of contestation and cooperation between politics, art and market, from a national, inward-looking cinema industry to an outward, transnational one. Focusing on Zhang Yimou, arguably one of China's most innovative and controversial filmmakers and directors, the author addresses the challenges faced by contemporary Chinese cinema (and non-Hollywood cinema by large) in the face of Hollywood dominance, such as making genre films in an increasingly globalized context, and the necessary compromises between the local and global, the national and the international. Through a combination of textual analysis and context study, it examines some action-oriented films Zhang made as responses to a rapidly changing film market and film industry.
Autorenporträt
Dr Xuelin Zhou is Senior Lecturer in Media, Film and Television Studies, School of Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, University of Auckland, New Zealand.
