The art of useless : fashion, media, and consumer culture in contemporary China
Title:
The art of useless : fashion, media, and consumer culture in contemporary China
Global Chinese culture
Global Chinese culture.
Author:
Hui, Calvin, author.
ISBN:
9780231192484
9780231192491
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
New York : Columbia University Press, c2021.
Physical Description:
xi, 267 pages ; 24 cm.
Series:
Global Chinese culture
Global Chinese culture.
Contents:
Introduction: The Trouble with Naming: Middle-Class Culture, Petty-Bourgeois Sensibility, and Zhuang -- 1. Dirty Fashion: Ma Ke's Fashion Exhibit Useless (2007), Jia Zhangke's Documentary Film Useless (2007), and Cognitive Mapping -- 2. The High-Quality Suit, Class Struggle, and Cultural Revolution: The Politics of Consumption in Xie Tieli's Film Never Forget (1964) -- 3. "Mao's Children Are Wearing Fashion!" Romantic Love, Fashion Consumption, and Modernization Politics in Huang Zumo's Film Romance on Lu Mountain (1980) -- 4. Imag(in)ing the Chinese Middle-Class Culture: White-Collar Work, Romantic Love, and Fashion Consumption -- 5. Between Production and Consumption: Chinese Migrant Factory Workers in Documentary Films and Ethnographic Works -- 6. The Psychic Life of Rubbish: On Wang Jiuliang's Documentary Film Beijing Besieged by Waste (2010).
Bibliographical References:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Field 805:
npmlib 11200210 HC430.C6 H85 os2 yh