East Asian Popular Culture: Perspectives on Time and Ecological Phenomenology

Liu, Muyun

This book explores the history of, and approaches to, documentary production within China from the Land Reform to the present day. It examines the institutionalisation of socialist realism during the PRC’s revolutionary era; considers the emergence of the fluid xianchang aesthetics and the creation of contingent subjectivities in relation to physicist Carlo Rovelli’s loop quantum gravity theory; explores two factory films through the angle of temporality; argues that time in the post-X era is multi-layered and can be experimented through a cinematic ruin aesthetics; and theorises ecological temporality in relation to Jean-Paul Sartre’s ontology on being as freedom and Caroline Godart’s analysis of difference.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2024-10-12

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9783031579073

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-57908-0

Dimensions: 210cm x148cm

Pages: 208