Chinese Independent Animation Renegotiating Identity in Modern China /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Zhou, Wenhai (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Summary:XII, 222 p. 42 illus.
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Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.
Edition:1st ed. 2020.
Series:Palgrave Animation,
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-40697-4
Format: Electronic Book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • ‘Postsocialism’ and ‘Independence’
  • Chapter 1: A dispersed 'independent' ecology
  • 1.1 The Meishu Legacy
  • 1.2 An Emergent ‘Animation Industry’
  • 1.3 The Pioneer of Chinese Independent Animation – Shanke
  • 1.4 Toward an ‘Ecological’ Conception of Independent Animation
  • Chapter 2: Understanding the Ecology of Independent Chinese Animation within the context of China's Post-Socialist Reality
  • 2.1 Minjian Individuality
  • 2.2 From production pipeline to platform: the CIAFF
  • 2.3 Conclusion: Assembling Ambiguous Contradictions
  • Chapter 3: The Imaginative World of Pisan
  • 3.1 Pisan – Redefining ‘Independence’
  • 3.2 An Icon of Resistance – Kuangkuang
  • 3.3 Parallel ‘Realities’ in Miss Puff
  • 3.4 ‘Parallel’ Responses of Pisan Within the Chinese Media Ecology
  • 3.5 Conclusion
  • Chapter 4: Lei Lei: A 'third way': Lei Lei and the Festival circuit
  • 4.1 The journey towards independence
  • 4.2 Early ‘rebellion’ through animationFace (2007)
  • 4.3 Post-socialist ‘reality’ and collective ‘identity’
  • 4.4 Lei Lei's Transcendent Response to the Media Ecology
  • 4.5 Conclusion
  • Chapter 5: The Future Prospect of the Chinese Independent Animation Ecology
  • 5.1 The mainstream path: a national ideology of Chineseness
  • 5.2 The evolving independent path: disoriented individual identity
  • 5.3 An ideological mirror: Piercing I
  • 5.4 Conclusion
  • Chapter 6: Conclusion. .