As the cancellation of the Beijing Independent Film Festival in 2014 shows, critical
independent filmmaking is not welcome in the People's Republic of China. In contrast …

From Underground to Independent is a timely collection of essays on the emergence of
independent filmmaking in contemporary China. With a central thesis of independent …

Boasting of the largest artist commune in the capital city or even the whole country,
Songzhuang is located at Tongzhou, an eastern suburb of Beijing. Acclaimed as the …

A significant development in contemporary Chinese cinema is the work of the new-
generation film directors. By" new-generation" I mean the young professional filmmakers …

Most international film festivals and their audiences treat Jia Zhangke as an auteur: a
filmmaker whose body of works demonstrates a logical consistency, stylistic unity, and …

The emergence of independent film directors and their maverick works in China since the
early 1990s has fostered a continuing interest in the politics of naming. Independent …

Page 1 EDINBURGH STUDIES IN EAST ASIAN FILM IndependentChInese doCumentary
alternatIvevIsIons,alternatIvepublICs Dan Edwards Page 2 Independent Chinese …

This article examines the representation of violence in Jia Zhangke's film A Touch of Sin
(2013) in light of Žižek's theory of 'objective violence'and the wuxia tradition. Jia attempts to …

The three films comprising director Jia Zhangke's' Hometown Trilogy'-Xiao Wu (1997),
Platform (2000) and Unknown Pleasures (2002)-represent key contributions to the cinema of …

After filming a series of young and insignificant flaneurs strolling at the margin of cities, in
The World, Jia Zhangke's attention has focused on migrant workers, who seem to be the …