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Alumni and faculty members who would like to have their books considered for this listing should contact Stacey Himmelberger, editor of Hamilton magazine. This list, which dates back to 2018, is updated periodically with books appearing alphabetically on the date of entry.
Teaching Film from the People’s Republic of China by Zhuoyi Wang, professor of East Asian Languages and Literature (co-editor).
September 20, 2024
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(Modern Language Association of America, 2024).
According to the publisher, “This volume brings a diverse range of voices - from anthropology, communication studies, ethnomusicology, film, history, literature, linguistics, sociology, theater, and urban geography - into the conversation about film from the People’s Republic of China. Essays seek to answer what films can reveal or obscure about Chinese history and society and demonstrate how studying films from the PRC can introduce students to larger issues of historical consciousness and media representation.
The book addresses not only post-socialist fictional films but also documentaries, films by or about people from ethnic minority groups, film music, the perspectives of female characters, martial arts cinema, and remakes of South Korean films. “By exploring how films represent power, traditions, and ideologies, students learn about both the complexity of the PRC and the importance of cross-cultural and cross-ideological understanding,” the publisher notes.
In addition to editing, Wang contributes a chapter titled “Teaching Ideology through a Controversial Chinese Film: The Case of The Wandering Earth.”
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