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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Jia Zhangke"”.
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Wounds in time: the aesthetic afterlives of the Cultural Revolution
… artist Zhang Xiaogang, as well as filmmakers Jia Zhangke and Jiang Wen. Drawing on classical theory of trauma by Freud as well as works by subsequent theorists such as Nicholas Abraham and Maria Torok, Cathy Caruth and Dominick LaCapra, I maintain that the Cultural Revolution is not a fixed …
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A North Wind: The New Realism of the French-Walloon Cinéma du Nord
… wave of global new realism (e.g., the films of Jia Zhangke and Kelly Reichardt). I argue that in its most compelling forms the new realist humanism renders intelligible the question, "what is a life in the face of the waning power of traditional and modern institutions?"
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The ecological turn: positioning the natural world in post-Mao fiction and film
… world. The individual works of Dai Sijie, Jia Zhangke, Han Shaogong, and Wang Anyi demonstrate in many ways the extent to which the role of the natural world has been explored and positioned within post-Mao fiction and film, echoing the systemic violence inherent to legacies of …
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The Difficulty of Homecoming: Film and Philosophy through Monster, A Hidden Life, and Mountains May Depart
… Malick, 2019), and Mountains May Depart (Jia Zhangke, 2015)—and examines how they explore the question of becoming at home in the world. It does so in dialogue both with these directors’ oeuvres and with resonant films, as well as with thinkers such as Martin Heidegger, Ludwig …
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A Network of Actors Influencing English Subtitles of Dialects and Other Culture-Specific References in Chinese Films
… directors, such as Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige, Jia Zhangke and Feng Xiaogang, brought about the visibility of Chinese art films in the international film market. They often depict a strong regional flavour through the use of dialects or other culture-specific references. The increased global …