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Chinese Independent Animation

Wenhai Zhou
Chinese Independent Animation Book PDF

Author : Wenhai Zhou
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-23
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783030406974

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This study of ‘independent’ animation opens up a quietly subversive and vibrant dimension of contemporary Chinese culture which, hitherto, has not received as much attention as dissident art or political activism. Scholarly interest in Chinese animation has increased over the last decade, with attention paid to the conventional media circle of production, distribution and consumption. The ‘independent’ sector has been largely ignored however, until now. By focusing on distinctive independent artists like Pisan and Lei Lei, and situating their work within the present day media ecology, the author examines the relationship between the genre and the sociocultural transformation of contemporary China. Animation, the author argues, has a special significance, as the nature of the animation text is itself multilayered and given to multiple interpretations and avenues of engagement. Through an examination of the affordances of this ‘independent’ media entity, the author explores how this multifaceted cultural form reveals ambiguities that parallel contradictions in art and society. In so doing, independent animation provides a convenient ‘mirror’ for examining how recent social upheavals have been negotiated, and how certain practitioners have found effective ways for discussing the post-Socialist reality within the current political configuration.

Chinese Animation, Creative Industries, and Digital Culture

Weihua Wu
Chinese Animation Creative Industries and Digital Culture Book PDF

Author : Weihua Wu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351611084

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Chinese Animation, Creative Industries, and Digital Culture by Weihua Wu Pdf

This book explores the development of the Chinese animation film industry from the beginning of China’s reform process up to the present. It discusses above all the relationship between the communist state’s policies to stimulate "creative industries", concepts of creativity and aesthetics, and the creation and maintenance , through changing circumstances, of a national style by Chinese animators. The book also examines the relationship between Chinese animation, changing technologies including the rise first of television and then of digital media, and youth culture, demonstrating the importance of Chinese animation in Chinese youth culture in the digital age.

Chinese Animation and Socialism

Anonim
Chinese Animation and Socialism Book PDF

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9789004499607

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This is the first book in English on Chinese animation and socialism that introduces the insider viewpoints of socialist animators at the Shanghai Animation Film Studio. A timely and useful reference book for researchers, students, animators, and fans interested in Chinese and even world animation.

The History of Chinese Animation I

Lijun Sun
The History of Chinese Animation I Book PDF

Author : Lijun Sun
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000740103

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China has been one of the first countries to develop its own aesthetic for dynamic images and to create animation films with distinctive characteristics. In recent years, however, and subject to the influence of Western and Japanese animation, the Chinese animation industry has experienced several new stages of development, prompting the question as to where animation in China is heading in the future. This book describes the history, present and future of China’s animation industry. The author divides the business’s 95-year history into six periods and analyses each of these from an historical, aesthetic, and artistic perspective. In addition, the book focuses on representative works; themes; directions; artistic styles; techniques; industrial development; government support policies; business models; the nurturing of education and talent; broadcasting systems and animation. Scholars and students who are interested in the history of Chinese animation will benefit from this book and it will appeal additionally to readers interested in Chinese film studies.

The New Generation in Chinese Animation

Shaopeng Chen
The New Generation in Chinese Animation Book PDF

Author : Shaopeng Chen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-23
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350118966

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The New Generation in Chinese Animation by Shaopeng Chen Pdf

In 1995 Chinese animated filmmaking ceased to be a state-run enterprise and was plunged into the free market. Using key animated films as his case studies, Shaopeng Chen examines new generation Chinese animation in its aesthetic and industrial contexts. He argues that, unlike its predecessors, this new generation does not have a distinctive national identity, but represents an important stage of diversity and exploration in the history of Chinese animation. Chen identifies distinct characteristics of new generation filmmaking, including an orientation towards young audiences and the recurring figure of the immortal monkey-like Sun Wukong. He explores how films such as Lotus Lantern/Baolian Deng (1999) responded to competition from American imports such as The Lion King (1994), retaining Chinese iconography while at the same time adopting Hollywood aesthetics and techniques. Addressing the series Boonie Bears/Xiong Chumo (2014-5), Chen focuses on the films' adaptation from the original TV series, and how the films were promoted across generations and by means of both online and offline channels. Discussing the series Kuiba/Kui Ba (2011, 2013, 2014), Chen examines Vasoon Animation Studio's ambitious attempt to create the first Chinese-style high fantasy fictional universe, and considers why the first film was a critical success but a failure at the box-office. He also explores the relationship between Japanese anime and new generation Chinese animation. Finally, Chen considers how word-of-mouth social media engagement lay behind the success of Monkey King: Hero is Back (2015).

Animation in China

Sean Macdonald
Animation in China Book PDF

Author : Sean Macdonald
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-06
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781317382164

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By the turn of the 21st century, animation production has grown to thousands of hours a year in the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Despite this, and unlike American blockbuster productions and the diverse genres of Japanese anime, much animation from the PRC remains relatively unknown. This book is an historical and theoretical study of animation in the PRC. Although the Wan Brothers produced the first feature length animated film in 1941, the industry as we know it today truly began in the 1950s at the Shanghai Animation Film Studio (SAFS), which remained the sole animation studio until the 1980s. Considering animation in China as a convergence of the institutions of education, fine arts, literature, popular culture, and film, the book takes comparative approaches that link SAFS animation to contemporary cultural production including American and Japanese animation, Pop Art, and mass media theory. Through readings of classic films such as Princess Iron Fan, Uproar in Heaven, Princess Peacock, and Nezha Conquers the Dragon King, this study represents a revisionist history of animation in the PRC as a form of "postmodernism with Chinese characteristics." As a theoretical exploration of animation in the People’s Republic of China, this book will appeal greatly to students and scholars of animation, film studies, Chinese studies, cultural studies, political and cultural theory.

Chinese Animation

Rolf Giesen
Chinese Animation Book PDF

Author : Rolf Giesen
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 792 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-12-19
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476615523

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With an output of more than 250,000 minutes annually, and with roughly 5,000 producers and production units, the Chinese are leading the field of animated films. Although it is almost impossible to completely cover 90 years of filmmaking, this book provides a comprehensible introduction to the industry's infancy, its Golden Age (Shanghai Animation Film Studio) and today's Chinese animation (in feature films, television series and student films). There are classics such as Princess Iron Fan (made at the time of the Japanese occupation) and the color Havoc in Heaven, both starring the Monkey King Sun Wukong, as well as countless TV stars (Blue Cat, Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf) and many almost unknown works by young filmmakers who are not focusing on an audience of children (like most of the industry output).

The History of Chinese Animation II

Taylor & Francis Group
The History of Chinese Animation II Book PDF

Author : Taylor & Francis Group
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 103223573X

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This book describes the history, present and future of China's animation industry. The author divides the business's 95-year history into six periods and analyses each of these from an historical, aesthetic, and artistic perspective while providing a detailed introduction to representative works from the business.

Chinese Animation and Socialism

Daisy Yan Du
Chinese Animation and Socialism Book PDF

Author : Daisy Yan Du
Publisher : China Studies
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-07
Category : Art
ISBN : 9004499598

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"This volume on Chinese animation and socialism is the first in English that introduces the insider viewpoints of socialist animators at the Shanghai Animation Film Studio in China. Although a few monographs have been published in English on Chinese animation, they are from the perspective of scholars rather than of the animators who personally worked on the films, as discussed in this volume. Featuring hidden histories and names behind the scenes, precious photos, and commentary on rarely seen animated films, this book is a timely and useful reference book for researchers, students, animators, and fans interested in Chinese and even world animation. This book originated from the Animators' Roundtable Forum (April 2017 at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), organized by the Association for Chinese Animation Studies"--

Animation in Asia and the Pacific

John A. Lent
Animation in Asia and the Pacific Book PDF

Author : John A. Lent
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0253340357

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Animation in Asia and the Pacific by John A. Lent Pdf

Animation has had a global renaissance during the 1990s, and nowhere is this more evident than in Asia. With the exception of China and Japan, most Asian nations are relatively new to this art form. Over the last decade, countries such as Taiwan, South Korea, the Philippines, and Thailand, as well as China, have acted as major offshore production plants for North American and European studios. One of the spurs for this increase in activity has been the global growth of terrestrial, cable, satellite, and video systems, all demanding large menus of programming, including animation. A second spur has been the exceptional popularity that Japanese animé has enjoyed across Asia, Europe, and the United States. Despite these developments, there has not been corresponding growth of a serious literature covering industrial and aesthetic issues about Asian animation, and the small amount of work that has been produced has not been published in English. Animation in Asia and the Pacific provides the first continent-wide analysis, delving into issues of production, distribution, exhibition, aesthetics, and regulation in this burgeoning field. Animation in Asia and the Pacific also offers vignettes of the fascinating experiences of a group of animation pioneers. The historical and contemporary perspectives derive from interviews, textual analysis, archival research, and participation/observation data.

DV-Made China

Zhen Zhang,Angela Zito
DV Made China Book PDF

Author : Zhen Zhang,Angela Zito
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-31
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780824846817

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In 1990s post-Reform China, a growing number of people armed with video cameras poured out upon the Chinese landscape to both observe and contribute to the social changes then underway. Happening upon the crucial platform of an older independent film movement, this digital turn has given us a "DV China" that includes film and media communities across different social strata and disenfranchised groups, including ethnic and religious minorities and LGBTQ communities. DV-Made China takes stock of these phenomena by surveying the social and cultural landscape of grassroots and alternative cinema practices after the digital turn around the beginning of the new century. The volume shows how Chinese independent, amateur, and activist filmmakers energize the tension between old and new media, performance and representation, fiction and non-fiction, art and politics, China and the world. Essays by scholars in cinema and media studies, anthropology, history, Asian and Tibetan studies bring innovative interdisciplinary methodologies to critically expand upon existing scholarship on contemporary Chinese independent documentary. Their inquiries then extend to narrative feature, activist video, animation, and other digital hybrids. At every turn, the book confronts digital ironies: On the one hand, its portability facilitates forms of radically private film production and audience habits of small-screen consumption. Yet it also simultaneously links up makers and consumers, curators and censors allowing for speedier circulation, more discussion, and quicker formations of public political and aesthetic discourses. DV-Made China introduces new frameworks in a Chinese setting that range from aesthetics to ethical activism, from digital shooting and editing techniques to the politics of film circulation in festivals and online. Politics, the authors urge, travels along paths of aesthetic excitement, and aesthetic choices, conversely, always bear ethical consequences. The films, their makers, their audiences and their distributional pathways all harbor implications for social change that are closely intertwined with the fate of media culture in the new century of a world that both contains and is influenced by China.

China's iGeneration

Matthew D. Johnson,Keith B. Wagner,Kiki Tianqi Yu,Luke Vulpiani
China s iGeneration Book PDF

Author : Matthew D. Johnson,Keith B. Wagner,Kiki Tianqi Yu,Luke Vulpiani
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781623563127

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China's iGeneration by Matthew D. Johnson,Keith B. Wagner,Kiki Tianqi Yu,Luke Vulpiani Pdf

This innovative collection of essays on twenty-first century Chinese cinema and moving image culture features contributions from an international community of scholars, critics, and practitioners. Taken together, their perspectives make a compelling case that the past decade has witnessed a radical transformation of conventional notions of cinema. Following China's accession to the WTO in 2001, personal and collective experiences of changing social conditions have added new dimensions to the increasingly diverse Sinophone media landscape, and provided a novel complement to the existing edifice of blockbusters, documentaries, and auteur culture. The numerous 'iGeneration' productions and practices examined in this volume include 3D and IMAX films, experimental documentaries, animation, visual aides-mémoires, and works of pirated pastiche. Together, they bear witness to the emergence of a new Chinese cinema characterized by digital and, trans-media representational strategies, the blurring of private/public distinctions, and dynamic reinterpretations of the very notion of 'cinema' itself.

The History of Chinese Animation

Lijun Sun
The History of Chinese Animation Book PDF

Author : Lijun Sun
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : ART
ISBN : 0367855062

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The History of Chinese Animation by Lijun Sun Pdf

"China has been one of the first countries to develop its own aesthetic for dynamic images and to create animation films with distinctive characteristics. In recent years, however, and subject to the influence of Western and Japanese animation, the Chinese animation industry has experienced several new stages of development, prompting the question as to where animation in China is heading in the future. This book describes the history, present and future of China's animation industry. The author divides the business's 95-year history into six periods and analyses each of these from an historical, aesthetic, and artistic perspective. In addition, the book focuses on representative works; themes; directions; artistic styles; techniques; industrial development; government support policies; business models; the nurturing of education and talent; broadcasting systems and animation. Scholars and students who are interested in the history of Chinese animation will benefit from this book and it will appeal additionally to readers interested in Chinese film studies"--

Chinese Animated Film and Ideology, 1940s-1970s

Olga Bobrowska
Chinese Animated Film and Ideology 1940s 1970s Book PDF

Author : Olga Bobrowska
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-24
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781000824216

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Chinese Animated Film and Ideology, 1940s-1970s by Olga Bobrowska Pdf

This book examines animated propaganda produced in mainland China from the 1940s to the 1970s. The analyses of four puppet films demonstrate how animation and Maoist doctrine became tightly but dynamically entangled. The book firstly contextualizes the production conditions and ideological contents of The Emperor’s Dream (1947), the first puppet film made at the Northeast Film Studio in Changchun. It then examines the artistic, intellectual, and ideological backbone of the puppet film Wanderings of Sanmao (1958). The book presents the means and methods applied in puppet animation filmmaking that complied with the ideological principles established by the radical supporters of Mao Zedong in the first half of the 1960s, discussing Rooster Crows at Midnight (1964). The final chapter discusses The Little 8th Route Army (1973), created by You Lei in the midst of the Cultural Revolution. This book will be of great interest to those in the fields of animation studies, film studies, political science, Chinese area studies, and Chinese philology.

Chinese Animated Film and Ideology

Olga Bobrowska
Chinese Animated Film and Ideology Book PDF

Author : Olga Bobrowska
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-22
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781003822240

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Chinese Animated Film and Ideology by Olga Bobrowska Pdf

This book presents a contextualized overview of the history of Chinese animated film, pointing out the most influential self-definitions of Chinese culture employed in animation art of Mao Zedong’s rule (1949–1976) but largely focusing on the representation strategies created in the times of reforms and opening-up under Deng Xiaoping (1978–1989/1992). Deeply grounded in cultural studies, the book employs an interdisciplinary approach, interlacing the reflection with the perspectives of political science, film studies, and film festival studies. It focuses on phenomena anchored to the paradigms of nationalization, reform, and internationalization: among them, nuanced understanding of the minzu (national) category (including the classic style of Chinese animation); invention of wash-and-ink painting animation (shuimo donghua); renewal of film theory and animated film language; soft power and cultural diplomacy; and regular access and co-creation of the international industry (festival distribution). This book will be of great interest to those in the fields of animation studies, film studies, political science, Chinese area studies, and Chinese philology.