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Spectacle and the City

Jeroen de Kloet
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      China is urbanizing at an unprecedented speed. Filmmakers, artists, musicians, and writers all try to come to terms with the changes of their city. How is the Chinese city-as-spectacle, visualised and thus imagined and reimagined, if not contested, in art and popular culture? What are the possible escape routes from a completely commodified cityscape? How to realign artistic expressions of the spectacle with everyday practices? The imaginations of the Chinese city in art and popular culture that this book explores are not taken as merely mirroring or reflecting ŸrealityŒ, on the contrary, they are part and parcel of the construction, destruction and deconstruction of that ŸrealityŒ. As such, these imaginations are enmeshed in the social, material and political realities that produce Chinese cityscapes. Spectacle and the City: Chinese Urbanities in Art and Popular Culture brings together essays by an interdisciplinary team of experts on Chinese cities, including world-renowned scholars like Ackbar Abbas and Chua Beng Huat, as well as leading cultural critics like Ou Ning. Aiming to steer away from an exclusive focus on Mainland China, the adjective Chinese has a cultural meaning and includes places like Singapore and Hong Kong.
      Format: Paperback / softback CONTRIBUTORS: Jeroen de Kloet EAN: 9789089644459 COUNTRY: Netherlands PAGES: WEIGHT: 0 g HEIGHT: 234 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Amsterdam University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2013-05-29 CITY: GENRE: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban WIDTH: 156 cm SPINE:

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      China, Popular culture

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      Jeroen de Kloet is Professor at the Department of Media Studies, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and affiliated to the School of Music and Recording Arts, Communication University of China. De Kloet’s publications cover Chinese popular music and youth cultures. His ERC project concerns creative practices in China. Lena Scheen is assistant professor/faculty fellow at New York University Shanghai (NYU Shanghai).
      China is urbanizing at an unprecedented speed. Filmmakers, artists, musicians, and writers all try to come to terms with the changes of their city. How is the Chinese city-as-spectacle, visualised and thus imagined and reimagined, if not contested, in art and popular culture? What are the possible escape routes from a completely commodified cityscape? How to realign artistic expressions of the spectacle with everyday practices? The imaginations of the Chinese city in art and popular culture that this book explores are not taken as merely mirroring or reflecting ŸrealityŒ, on the contrary, they are part and parcel of the construction, destruction and deconstruction of that ŸrealityŒ. As such, these imaginations are enmeshed in the social, material and political realities that produce Chinese cityscapes. Spectacle and the City: Chinese Urbanities in Art and Popular Culture brings together essays by an interdisciplinary team of experts on Chinese cities, including world-renowned scholars like Ackbar Abbas and Chua Beng Huat, as well as leading cultural critics like Ou Ning. Aiming to steer away from an exclusive focus on Mainland China, the adjective Chinese has a cultural meaning and includes places like Singapore and Hong Kong.
      Format: Paperback / softback CONTRIBUTORS: Jeroen de Kloet EAN: 9789089644459 COUNTRY: Netherlands PAGES: WEIGHT: 0 g HEIGHT: 234 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Amsterdam University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2013-05-29 CITY: GENRE: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban WIDTH: 156 cm SPINE:

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      China, Popular culture

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      Jeroen de Kloet is Professor at the Department of Media Studies, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and affiliated to the School of Music and Recording Arts, Communication University of China. De Kloet’s publications cover Chinese popular music and youth cultures. His ERC project concerns creative practices in China. Lena Scheen is assistant professor/faculty fellow at New York University Shanghai (NYU Shanghai).

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