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OverviewIn Urban Horror Erin Y. Huang theorizes the economic, cultural, and political conditions of neoliberal post-socialist China. Drawing on Marxist phenomenology, geography, and aesthetics from Engels and Merleau-Ponty to Lefebvre and Ranciere, Huang traces the emergence and mediation of what she calls urban horror-a sociopolitical public affect that exceeds comprehension and provides the grounds for possible future revolutionary dissent. She shows how documentaries, blockbuster feature films, and video art from China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan made between the 1990s and the present rehearse and communicate urban horror. In these films urban horror circulates through myriad urban spaces characterized by the creation of speculative crises, shifting temporalities, and dystopic environments inhospitable to the human body. The cinematic image and the aesthetics of urban horror in neoliberal post-socialist China lay the groundwork for the future to such an extent, Huang contends, that the seeds of dissent at the heart of urban horror make it possible to imagine new forms of resistance. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Erin Y. HuangPublisher: Duke University Press Imprint: Duke University Press Weight: 0.408kg ISBN: 9781478008095ISBN 10: 1478008091 Pages: 288 Publication Date: 28 February 2020 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Urban Horror: Speculative Futures of Chinese Cinemas 1 1. Cartographies of Socialism and Post-Socialism: The Factory Gate and the Threshold of the Visible World 33 2. Intimate Dystopias: Post-Socialist Femininity and the Marxist-Feminist Interior 69 3. The Post- as Media Time: Documentary Experiments and the Rhetoric of Ruin Gazing 101 4. Post-Socialism in Hong Kong: Zone Urbanism and Marxist Phenomenology 146 5. The Ethics of Representing Precarity: Film in the Era of Global Complicity 184 Epilogue 218 Notes 223 Bibliography 245 Index 259ReviewsIn this visionary book Erin Y. Huang lays out a new epistemology of the political, cultural, and affective present while gesturing toward desirable futures. This book will galvanize the study of Chinese cinema and interdisciplinary studies of the urban; it will be of unique interest to all those across the humanities who are striving to decipher the logics of the global, neoliberal present. Like no other book, Urban Horror makes the affective, political, and material contours of the contemporary Asian city available to social theory. A vitally innovative work. -- Arnika Fuhrmann, author of * Ghostly Desires: Queer Sexuality and Vernacular Buddhism in Contemporary Thai Cinema * What is 'horror' in the contemporary world? With reference to numerous interesting Chinese-language films, Erin Y. Huang argues that horror is a morphing assemblage of sociohistorical forces, one that creates a disjuncture between a perceived external reality and an internal frame of comprehension. An admirably timely statement on the often hypermedial-and horrific-performativity of urban public sentiments, in post-socialist China as in EuroAmerica and beyond. -- Rey Chow, author of * Sentimental Fabulations, Contemporary Chinese Films: Attachment in the Age of Global Visibility * Author InformationErin Y. Huang is Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies and Comparative Literature at Princeton University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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