E-raamat: Wang Bing's Filmmaking of the China Dream: Narratives, Witnesses and Marginal Spaces

1. This book is the only publication covering the full spectrum of Wang Bing's activities in documentary film, fiction and art installation. 2. It is based on detailed film analyses and unique insights gained in the author's extensive conversations with Wang Bing collected in fifteen years of regular contacts in China, Europe, at film festivals and art exhibitions. 3. It offers an organic discussion of Wang Bing's activities read against the backdrop of the Chinese state narratives and policies. This volume offers an organic discussion of Wang Bing's filmmaking across China’s marginal spaces and against the backdrop of the state-sanctioned 'China Dream'. Wang Bing's cinema gives voice to the subaltern. Focusing on contemporary China, his work testifies to a set of issues dealing with inequality, labour, and migration. His internationally awarded documentaries are considered masterpieces with unique aesthetics that bear reference to global film masters. Therefore, this investigation goes beyond the divides between Western and non-Western film traditions and between fiction and documentary cinema. Each chapter takes a different articulation of space (spaces of labour, history, and memory) as its entry point, bringing together film and documentary studies, Chinese studies, and globalization studies. This volume benefits from the author's extensive conversations with Wang Bing and insider observations of film production and the film festival circuit.