Culture for Billionaires
Description
A country that can look back on a rich and extensive past will undoubtedly have a wealth of stories, and China's literary tradition, with its multi-millennial history of essays, novels, and poetry, is likely the world's oldest. But even in a land that reveres poetry, pictures can take over-especially moving pictures. Although small art-house films were the only choice after the cinematically barren years of the Cultural Revolution, today China is a major producer of movie spectacles. This program shows how far the country has come in terms of cultural production and how it is poised to rival the U.S. as the world's filmmaking center. Contemporary Chinese literature and the market for books are also important topics, as are censorship, self-censorship, and why certain motifs are recurrent in Chinese stories. Expert commentary comes from director Eva Jin, film critic Raymond Zhou, film industry analyst Leon Gao, stunt man Zeng Dong, and author Yan Lianke.
Runtime
29 min
Series
Subjects
- Cultural geography (235)
- Population (248)
- Motion pictures (857)
- Social ecology (250)
- Sound (128)
- Literature, modern (80)
Geography
Genre
Date of Publication
[2013], c2012
Database
Films on Demand
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