Centre for World Cinemas
School of Modern Languages and Cultures
Faculty of Arts
University of Leeds
Cordially invites to:
Re-telling Chinese history on film:
The Qingming scroll & Jia Zhangke’s 24 City
A Leverhulme Lecture by:
Professor Stephanie Hemelryk Donald
ARC Future Fellow and Professor of Comparative Film and Cultural Studies at the University of New South Wales
Tuesday 24 April 2012, 17:30, followed by wine reception
Parkinson Building 1.08
University of Leeds, LS2 9JT
Limited seats! Please register now with Helen Costelloe: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
This lecture discusses the history and poetics of domestic migration as it is explored and contested through recent Chinese film and visual culture. The lecture examines this through the work of contemporary directors, most particularly Jia Zhangke, and in regards to Party-State cultural interventions in the context of the marketization of China post-Reform. The argument is made in dialogue with recent accounts of realism and anti-realism in world cinema.
The discussion pays attention to the market both as a visual trope and as a material phenomenon and driving force in Chinese society and politics. Necessarily therefore, reference is made to a number of disciplines in Chinese Studies as well as to contemporary film theory. The lecture seeks through its reading to make clear the value in interdisciplinary attention to complex cultural texts, and to therefore draw attention to the political ambition attaching to visuality in China. The story of the market is on the one hand a tale of re-imagined harmony and nation-building, and on the other an unravelling of certainty and belonging.
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