From underground to independent: alternative film culture in contemporary China

In: Asia

Abstract

Social and political dynamics of underground filmmaking in China / Paul G. Pickowicz -- My camera doesn't lie? Truth, subjectivity, and audience in Chinese independent film and video / Yingjin Zhang -- "A scene beyond our line of sight" : Wu Wenguang and new documentary cinema's politics of independence / Matthew David Johnson -- "Every man a star" : the ambivalent cult of amateur art in new Chinese documentaries / Valerie Jaffee -- Independently Chinese : Duan Jinchuan, Jiang Yue, and Chinese documentary / Chris Berry -- Trapped freedom and localized globalism / Tonglin Lu -- Chinese underground films : critical views from China / Chen Mo and Zhiwei Xiao -- Film clubs in Beijing : the cultural consumption of Chinese independent films / Seio Nakajima -- Appendix : The Chinese underground film collection at the University of California, San Diego / Jim Cheng