Cinema Approaching Reality: Locating Chinese Film Theory

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In Cinema Approaching Reality, Victor Fan brings together, for the first time, Chinese and Euro-American film theories and theorists to engage in critical debates about film in Shanghai and Hong Kong from the 1920s through the 1940s. The result is an eye-opening exploration of the potentialities in approaching cinema anew, especially in the photographic materiality following its digital turn.

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"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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Victor Fan is lecturer in film studies at Kings College London. He has contributed extensively to academic journals, including Screen, Film History, and Camera Obscura.