TY - BOOK ID - 78341893 TI - Building a new China in cinema : the Chinese left-wing cinema movement, 1932-1937 PY - 2002 SN - 1299854737 0742572226 9780742572225 0742509451 9780742509450 074250946X 9780742509467 PB - Lanham, Maryland ; Oxford, England : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., DB - UniCat KW - Motion pictures UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78341893 AB - Building a New China in Cinema introduces English readers for the first time to one of the most exciting left-wing cinema traditions in the world. This unique book explores the history, ideology, and aesthetics of China's left-wing cinema movement, a quixotic film culture that was as political as commercial, as militant as sensationalist. Drawing on detailed archival research, Pang demonstrates that this cinema movement was a product of the era's social, economic, and political discourses. The author offers a close analysis of many rarely seen films, richly illustrated with over eighty stills ER -