TY  - GEN
T1  - Cinema approaching reality : locating chinese film theory
A1  - Fan, Victor
LA  - English
PP  - Minneapolis
PB  - University of Minnesota Press
YR  - 2015
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn904249412
AB  - In Cinema Approaching Reality, Victor Fan brings together, for the first time, Chinese and Euro-American film theories and theorists to engage in critical debates about film in Shanghai and Hong Kong from the 1920s through 1940s. His point of departure is a term popularly employed by Chinese film critics during this period, bizhen, often translated as "lifelike" but best understood as "approaching reality." What these Chinese theorists mean, in Fan's reading, is that the cinematographic image is not a form of total reality, but it can allow spectators to apprehend an effect as though they had been there at the time when an event actually happened. Fan suggests that the phrase "approaching reality" can help to renegotiate an aporia (blind spot) that influential French film critic André Bazin wrestled with: the cinematographic image is a trace of reality, yet reality is absent in the cinematographic image, and the cinema makes present this absence as it reactivates the passage of time. Fan enriches Bazinian cinematic ontology with discussions on cinematic reality in Republican China and colonial Hong Kong, putting Western theorists-from Bazin and Kracauer to Baudrillard, Agamben, and Deleuze-into dialogue with their Chinese counterparts. The result is an eye-opening exploration of the potentialities in approaching cinema anew, especially in the photographic materiality following its digital turn.
CN  - PN1995 .F27 2015eb
SN  - 9781452944050
SN  - 1452944059
SN  - 9780816693559
SN  - 0816693552
SN  - 9780816693573
SN  - 0816693579
KW  - Motion pictures : Philosophy.
KW  - Film criticism : China : History.
KW  - Motion pictures : China : History.
KW  - Critique cinématographique : Chine : Histoire.
KW  - Cinéma : Chine : Histoire.
KW  - Cinéma : Philosophie.
KW  - PERFORMING ARTS : Reference.
KW  - ART : Film & Video.
KW  - Performing Arts.
KW  - Film criticism
KW  - Motion pictures
KW  - Motion pictures : Philosophy
KW  - China
KW  - Film
KW  - Filmtheorie
KW  - Filmkritik, Kina.
KW  - Filmteori, Kina.
KW  - History
ER  -