Contents
Acknowledgments
Note on Transliteration
Introduction
1. Approaching Reality: Chinese Ontology and the Potentiality of
Time
2. Cinema of Thought: Directed Consciousness in Chinese Marxist
Film Theory
3. Soft Film Theory: Lifein All Its Presence and Concreteness
4. Fey Mou: The Presence of an Absence
5. Cinema of Ideation, Cinema of Play: The Early Cantonese Sound
Film
Conclusion
Notes
Filmography
Index
Victor Fan is lecturer in film studies at King’s College London. He has contributed extensively to academic journals, including Screen, Film History, and Camera Obscura.
"An eye-opening exploration of the possibilities of approaching
cinema anew, in its photographic materiality, after the digital
turn."—Guo-Juin Hong, Duke University
"Erudite, thought-provoking and lucidly composed. Cinema
Approaching Reality fills a giant gap in Chinese film studies as
the first comprehensive and imaginative study of key theoretical
debates on cinema in China and Hong Kong before 1950. More
importantly, Victor Fan bridges or reestablishes the historical and
philosophical connections between the Chinese discourses and
Western film theory within the global context of modernity,
capitalism, and imperialism, while offering refreshing insights
into the life or temporality of the moving image in the wake of the
digital turn."—Zhang Zhen, New York University
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