Politics of Memory in Sinophone Cinemas and Image Culture

Peng Hsiao-yen is Research Fellow at the Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy, Academia Sinica, Taiwan.Ella Raidel is Senior Postdoc (Elise-Richter-PEEK) at Art University Linz, Austria.

• Introduction I. Remembering China: The Individual Self, the Collective, and the State ApparatusChapter 1. Why Remember Everyday Movie-Going in Cultural Revolution Shanghai? Chapter 2. Persuasive Communication in Chinese Historical Film: The Founding of a Republic as a MilestoneChapter 3. Images of Redress and Rehabilitation: "pingfan (in) film" and perceptions of coming to terms with the past in China Chapter 4. A Familiar Stranger - Grierson in China II. Politicizing Archives: Artists and Digital HistoryChapter 5. The Use and Abuse of the Archives in Contemporary Art Chapter 6. Making Reverberation: Residue of Sounds and Images Chapter 7. The Digital Emergence of a New History: The Archiving of Colonial Japanese Documentaries on Taiwan III. Manufactured Archives: the Fictional MemoryChapter 8. Wong Kar-wai’s Mood Trilogy: Robot, Tears, and the Affective Aura Chapter 9. The Missing and the Fictional Memory: Leitmotifs of Tsai Ming Liang’s Oeuvre Chapter 10. Light and Shadow of Jianghu: Peering into the Contemporary Political Mythology in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Hero and The Grandmaster

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