Chinese Independent Cinema: Past, Present, and a Questionable Future (Hardcover)

List of Illustrations, Introduction &?Sabrina Qiong Yu, Chris Berry, Luke Robinson, and Lydia Wu, Genealogies, Chapter 1. The Soil and the Scar: A Genealogy of Photography and Documentary in Post-Mao China &?Zoe Meng Jiang, Chapter 2. Video Relics: Hu Jie and the Official Style &?Maximilian Berwald, Ethics and Aesthetics, Chapter 3. Hu Bo's Ethics of Realism &?Cecilia Mello, Chapter 4. The Filmmaker as Feminist &?Jinyan Zeng, Chapter 5. Of Found Objects and Projected Things: The Relational Field in Wang Bing's West of the Tracks and Ma Li's Born in Beijing &?Yün Peng, Beside the Screen: Independent Cinema as Social Practice, Chapter 6. In Dependence and in Relation: A Relational Sociological Approach to Chinese Independent Cinema &?Seio Nakajima, Chapter 7. Distribution and Exhibition of Independent Film in China: Informal Infrastructure and Its Affordances &?Chris Berry, Luke Robinson, and Sabrina Qiong Yu, Chapter 8. Mediating the New Alternative Film Culture: An Ethnographic Study of Post-Independent Exhibition Practices Since 2017 &?Xiang Fan, Chapter 9. Three Modes of Independent Creative Documentary Production and the Rise of the Industrial Mode &?Kiki Tianqi Yu, Community and Engagement, Chapter 10. Cinematic Fabulation: Trans Representation in Miss Jin Xing &?Hongwei Bao, Chapter 11. Village Film and Place-Based Film Archive: Towards an Ecological and Archival Chinese Independent Documentary &?Zimu Zhang, Chapter 12. The Ethic of Collaboration: Rethinking Chinese Independent Cinema's Engagement with Grassroots Creativity &?Kaiyang Xu, List of Contributors, Index.