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Chinese Ecocinema: In the Age of Environmental Challenge
Edited by Sheldon H. Lu and Jiayan Mi
Content
Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
Introduction: Cinema, Ecology, Modernity – Sheldon H. Lu
Part I. Hydro-Politics: Water, River, and National Trauma
1. Framing Ambient Unheimlich: Ecoggedon, Ecological Unconscious, and Water Pathology in New Chinese Cinema – Jiayan Mi
2. Gorgeous Three Gorges at Last Sight: Cinematic Remembrance and the Dialectic of Modernization – Sheldon H. Lu
3. Submerged Ecology and Depth Psychology in Wushan yunyu: Aesthetic Insight into National Development – Nick Kaldis
4. Floating Consciousness: The Cinematic Confluence of Ecological Aesthetics in Suzhou River – Andrew Hageman
Part II. Eco-Aesthetics, Heteroscape, and Manufactured Landscape
5. The Idea-Image: Conceptualizing Landscape in Recent Martial Arts Movies – Mary Farquhar
6. Façades: The New Beijing and the Unsettled Ecology of Jia Zhangke's The World – Jerome Silbergeld
7. Ruins and Grassroots: Jia Zhangke's Cinematic Discontents in the Age of Globalization – Hongbing Zhang
Part III. Urban Space in Production and Disappearance
8. Of Humans and Nature in Documentary: The Logic of Capital in West of the Tracks and Blind Shaft – Ban Wang
9. Toward a Hong Kong Ecocinema: The Dis-appearance of "Nature" in Three Films by Fruit Chan – Chris Tong
10. A City of Disappearance: Trauma, Displacement, and Spectral Cityscape in Contemporary Chinese Cinema – Jing Nie
Part IV. Bioethics, Non-Anthropocentrism, and Green Sovereignty
11. In the Face of Development Ruins: Place Attachment and Its Ethical Claims – Xinmin Liu
12. Ning Hao's Incense: A Curious Tale of Earthly Buddhism – Xiaoping Lin
13. Putting Back the Animals: Woman-Animal Meme in Contemporary Taiwanese Ecofeminist Imagination – Chia-ju Chang
14. "Reconstructing the God-Fearing Community": Filming Tibet in the Twenty-First Century – Donghui He
Notes
Chinese Glossary
Filmography
Bibliography
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