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Cinema off screen : moviegoing in socialist China

Title
  1. Cinema off screen : moviegoing in socialist China / Chenshu Zhou.
Published by
  1. Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2021]
Author
  1. Zhou, Chenshu, 1985-

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Description
  1. xii, 266 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps; 24 cm
Summary
  1. "At a time when what it means to watch movies keeps changing, this book offers a case study that rethinks the institutional, ideological, and cultural role of film exhibition, demonstrating that film exhibition can produce meaning in itself apart from the films being shown. Cinema Off Screen elaborates on the idea that cinema takes place off screen as much as on screen by exploring film exhibition in China from the founding of the People's Republic in 1949 to the end of the Cold War in the early 1990s. Drawing on original archival research, interviews, and audience recollections, Cinema Off Screen decenters the filmic text and offers a study of institutional operations and lived experiences. Chenshu Zhou details how screening space, media technology, and the human body mediate encounters with cinema in ways that have not been fully recognized, opening new conceptual avenues for rethinking the ever-changing institution of cinema"--
Subject
  1. 1900-1999
  2. Motion pictures > China > History > 20th century > Case studies
  3. Socialism and motion pictures > China > 20th century > Case studies
  4. Motion picture audiences > China > 20th century > Case studies
  5. Motion picture audiences
  6. Motion pictures
  7. Socialism and motion pictures
  8. China
Genre/Form
  1. Case studies.
  2. History.
Contents
  1. Introduction -- Space -- Labor -- Multimedia -- Atmosphere -- Discomfort -- Screen -- Postscript -- Appendix : Interviewee profiles.
Call number
  1. MFL 22-308
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Author
  1. Zhou, Chenshu, 1985- author.
Title
  1. Cinema off screen : moviegoing in socialist China / Chenshu Zhou.
Publisher
  1. Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2021]
Type of content
  1. text
Type of medium
  1. unmediated
Type of carrier
  1. volume
Bibliography
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Chronological term
  1. 1900-1999
Other form:
  1. Online version: Zhou, Chenshu, 1985- Cinema off screen Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2021] 9780520974777 (DLC) 2020056152
LCCN
  1. 2020056151
ISBN
  1. 9780520343382 hardcover
  2. 0520343387 hardcover
  3. 9780520343399 paperback
  4. 0520343395 paperback
Research call number
  1. MFL 22-308
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