Red and Identities: The Symbolic Uses of Reds in 1980's Era Chinese Cinema - Couverture souple

Yu, Wan-Ting

 
9783832539139: Red and Identities: The Symbolic Uses of Reds in 1980's Era Chinese Cinema
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 3832539131 ISBN 13 : 9783832539139
Editeur : Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH, 2015

Synopsis

This book examines color aesthetics and the symbolic uses of reds in 1980's era Chinese cinema. Adopting a semiotic approach, the research combines the aesthetic and content analysis with a broader investigation using social-historical perspectives. It first explores cinematographic color aesthetics by considering the transplantation of styles from painting to cinema, then analyzes various symbolic uses of reds in cinematic signifying practices. Three parallel, intersecting, thematic fields in Chinese modernization are used as departure points: 1. rural-urban relationship; and, 2. Individualization; and, 3. gender identities. It investigates the following questions: How color contributes to meaning construction and signifies cultural identities and social ideologies? How are underlying ideologies translated into the mise-en-scene? Finally, it discusses the role of cinema in constituting a trans-cultural phenomenon which uses red as a predominant color to represent China and the 'Chinese-ness'.

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Éditeur
Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH
Date d'édition
2015
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3832539131
ISBN 13 
9783832539139
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
213
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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