Fiery Cinema : The Emergence of an Affective Medium in China, 1915–1945

作者：WeihongBao

出版社：UniversityofMinnesotaPress

副标题：TheEmergenceofanAffectiveMediuminChina,1915–1945

出版年：2015-3-15

页数：464

定价：USD30.00

装帧：Paperback

ISBN：9780816681341

内容简介
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What was cinema in modern China? It was, this book tells us, a dynamic entity, not strictly tied to one media technology, one mode of operation, or one system of aesthetic code. It was, in Weihong Bao’s term, an affective medium, a distinct notion of the medium as mediating environment with the power to stir passions, frame perception, and mold experience. In Fiery Cinema, Bao traces the permutations of this affective medium from the early through the mid-twentieth century, exploring its role in aesthetics, politics, and social institutions.

Mapping the changing identity of cinema in China in relation to Republican-era print media, theatrical performance, radio broadcasting, television, and architecture, Bao has created an archaeology of Chinese media culture. Within this context, she grounds the question of spectatorial affect and media technology in China’s experience of mechanized warfare, colonial modernity, and the shaping of the public into consumers, national citizens, and a revolutionary collective subject. Carrying on a close conversation with transnational media theory and history, she teases out the tension and affinity between vernacular, political modernist, and propagandistic articulations of mass culture in China’s varied participation in modernity.

Fiery Cinema advances a radical rethinking of affect and medium as a key insight into the relationship of cinema to the public sphere and the making of the masses. By centering media politics in her inquiry of the forgotten future of cinema, Bao makes a major intervention into the theory and history of media.

作者简介
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Weihong Bao is assistant professor of film and media and Chinese studies at the University of California, Berkeley.

目录
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Introduction

Part I. Resonance

1. Fiery Action: Toward an Aesthetics of New Heroism

2. A Culture of Resonance: Hypnotism, Wireless Cinema, and the Invention of Intermedial Spectatorship

Part II. Transparency

3. Dances of Fire: Mediating Affective Immediacy

4. Transparent Shanghai: Cinema, Architecture, and a Left-Wing Culture of Glass

Part III. Agitation

5. “A Vibrating Art in the Air”: The Infinite Cinema and the Media Ensemble of Propaganda

6. Baptism by Fire: Atmospheric War, Agitation, and a Tale of Three Cities

Acknowledgments

Notes

Filmography

Index

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看的时候忍不住想到D提到过的，你付出的精力越多，你的读者需要付出的精力就越少，深以为然。

英文水平不足以让我看懂他的深邃思想。

不是那种一眼看上去就让人喜欢的书。槽点很多，比如语言晦涩造成的阅读障碍、脑洞过大的理论解读，每个章节内部的结构也有些松散。但相比于其他中国早期电影研究（比如张真那本），包卫红确实抓住了一个更有概括力和延展性的视角。把电影看作affect medium，由此勾连了左翼电影和商业电影（甚至政治宣传片），突出了电影媒介和其他媒介的互动（戏剧、建筑、报纸、大众科学等等），对于重新思考20世纪中国文艺史整体…

I spent nearly two months reading this book, which inspired my study of early Chinese film history because my field is focusing on Left-wing film culture and Wartime Chongqing. Professor Bao is an exc…

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