The Shadow Network: Distribution and Exhibition of Chinese Cinema in the US, 2002-2020
The Shadow Network: Distribution and Exhibition of Chinese Cinema in the US, 2002-2020
상세정보
- 자료유형
- 학위논문 서양
- 최종처리일시
- 20250211153124
- ISBN
- 9798346851462
- DDC
- 791
- 저자명
- Zhang, Fengyun.
- 서명/저자
- The Shadow Network: Distribution and Exhibition of Chinese Cinema in the US, 2002-2020
- 발행사항
- [Sl] : University of California, Los Angeles, 2024
- 발행사항
- Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2024
- 형태사항
- 193 p
- 주기사항
- Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 86-06, Section: A.
- 주기사항
- Advisor: Berry, Michael Sanford;Trice, Jasmine Nadua.
- 학위논문주기
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Los Angeles, 2024.
- 초록/해제
- 요약This dissertation examines the politics of Chinese cinema distribution and exhibition in the US between 2002 and 2020, a transformative period marked by the robust growth of China's domestic film industry, tightening state censorship, escalating U.S.-China geopolitical tensions, and the proliferation of online video platforms. It argues that the overseas dissemination of Chinese cinema has been achieved through a "shadow network" of grassroots, bottom-up activities. This network encompasses a wide range of stakeholders-filmmakers, distributors, critics, academics, and audience communities-who collectively shape how Chinese films circulate internationally. This focus reveals how the specialized, subordinate, and informal initiatives have shaped Chinese cinema's transnational presence beyond state-directed efforts of global expansion.Previous scholarship has addressed China as a lucrative box-office market for Hollywood and assessed the Chinese film industry as more self-sufficient than export-oriented. This dissertation challenges this political economy perspective by employing a site-specific approach to examine an array of distinct yet interconnected distribution and exhibition outlets. It approaches the transnational circulation of Chinese cinema not merely as a space for artistic rebellion and dissent, nor as indicators of failed cultural exportation, but as a productive network with its own promises, logics, and strategies. The project begins by analyzing the theatrical distribution of Chinese cinema in the US, revealing imbalanced power dynamics between Hollywood executives and Chinese directors and distributors. The next chapter examines the rise of diasporic film festivals following the post-2012 Chinese government crackdown on independent film festivals. The final chapter turns to illicit streaming sites that circumvent geoblocking to operate within opaque transnational digital spaces. Through a cultural-industrial analysis that integrates archival materials and ethnographic fieldwork, the dissertation unsettles the boundaries between arthouse and commercial markets, as well as between industrial distribution infrastructures and grassroots exhibition activities, presenting a comprehensive understanding of Chinese cinema's global circulation.
- 일반주제명
- Film studies
- 일반주제명
- Asian studies
- 일반주제명
- Cultural anthropology
- 키워드
- Chinese cinema
- 키워드
- Film exhibition
- 키워드
- Film industry
- 기타저자
- University of California, Los Angeles Film & TV 0010
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertations Abstracts International. 86-06A.
- 전자적 위치 및 접속
- 로그인 후 원문을 볼 수 있습니다.
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■85640▼uhttp://www.riss.kr/pdu/ddodLink.do?id=T17165103▼nKERIS▼z이 자료의 원문은 한국교육학술정보원에서 제공합니다.
