Zhang, Zhen, ed., The Urban Generation-Chinese Cinema and Society at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century, Duke University Press, Durham and London, 2007.
acknowledge
introduction: bearing witness: Chinese urban cinema in the era of transformation(zhuanxing)/ Zhang, Zhen
1.ideology, film practice and the market
0.rebel without a cause? china's new urban generation and postsocialist filmmaking/ Zhang, Yingjin
0.the independent cinema of Jia Zhangke: from postsocialist realism to a transnational aesthetic/ Mcgrath, Jason
0.getting real: chinese documentary, chinese postsocialism/ Berry, Chris
2.the politics and poetics of urban space
0.tear down the city: reconstructing urban space in contemporary chinese popular cinema and avant-garde art/ Lu, Sheldon H.
0.tracing the city's scars: demolition and the limits of the documentary impulse in the new urban cinema/ Braester, Yomi
0.scaling the skyscraper: images of cosmopolitan consumption in Street Angel(1937) and Beautiful New World(1998)/ Palmer, Augusta
0.whither the walker goes: spatial practices and negative poetics in 1990s chinese urban cinema/ Lai, Linda Chiu-Han
3.the production of desire and identities
0.ning ying's beijing trilogy: cinematic configurations of age, class, and sexuality/ Cui, Shuqin
0.zhang yuan's imaginary cities and the theatricalization of the chinese bastards/ Reynaud, Berenice
0.mr. zhao on and off the screen: male desire and its discontent/ Zhong, Xueping
0.maintaining law and order in the city: new tales of the people's police/ Shi, Yaohua
0.urban dreamscape, phantom sisters, and the identity of an emergent art cinema/ Zhang, Zhen
appendix. the urban generation filmmakers(compiled by Charles Leary)
bibliography
contributors
index