Part I. Resonance
1. Fiery Action: Toward an Aesthetics of New Heroism
2. A Culture of Resonance: Hypnotism, Wireless Cinema, and the Invention of Intermedial Spectatorship
Part II. Transparency
3. Dances of Fire: Mediating Affective Immediacy
4. Transparent Shanghai: Cinema, Architecture, and a Left-Wing Culture of Glass
Part III. Agitation
5. “A Vibrating Art in the Air”: The Infinite Cinema and the Media Ensemble of Propaganda
6. Baptism by Fire: Atmospheric War, Agitation, and a Tale of Three Cities
Acknowledgments
Notes
Filmography
Index
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具體描述
What was cinema in modern China? It was, this book tells us, a dynamic entity, not strictly tied to one media technology, one mode of operation, or one system of aesthetic code. It was, in Weihong Bao’s term, an affective medium, a distinct notion of the medium as mediating environment with the power to stir passions, frame perception, and mold experience. In Fiery Cinema, Bao traces the permutations of this affective medium from the early through the mid-twentieth century, exploring its role in aesthetics, politics, and social institutions.
Mapping the changing identity of cinema in China in relation to Republican-era print media, theatrical performance, radio broadcasting, television, and architecture, Bao has created an archaeology of Chinese media culture. Within this context, she grounds the question of spectatorial affect and media technology in China’s experience of mechanized warfare, colonial modernity, and the shaping of the public into consumers, national citizens, and a revolutionary collective subject. Carrying on a close conversation with transnational media theory and history, she teases out the tension and affinity between vernacular, political modernist, and propagandistic articulations of mass culture in China’s varied participation in modernity.
Fiery Cinema advances a radical rethinking of affect and medium as a key insight into the relationship of cinema to the public sphere and the making of the masses. By centering media politics in her inquiry of the forgotten future of cinema, Bao makes a major intervention into the theory and history of media.
用戶評價
##寫得影史三城記，藉得烈火一縷魂。
評分##slightly overrated? 除瞭glass architecture眼前一亮以外，其他都像是把media theory的framework套在電影上
評分##"Left-wing culture of glass"
評分##寫得影史三城記，藉得烈火一縷魂。
評分重寫中國電影史的力作：（1）依靠媒介譜係學打開電影的“跨媒介性”，比如第二章講靈視／無綫傳輸技術在2、30年代形塑對電影媒介性的理解，第四章講左翼電影和上海現代主義建築在“透明性”美學上的共鳴，闡述電影作為一種技術在中國的（媒介／技術）現代性中的中心角色。（2）依靠情感/情動研究重新繪製電影的美學譜係，抓住“火／燃燒”這一關鍵元素，它代錶一種美學意象、一種理解技術的詩學想象、一種媒介原型、一種政治能量的隱喻...組織瞭三部六個章節，大大復雜化瞭對於中國電影美學和政治的探討。（3）在前麵兩根主軸建立的體係裏，照顧到瞭許多之前少有觸及的對象，比如“火燒片”的新英雄主義、戰時重慶的國策片的美學試驗，戰時重慶、上海、香港影視生産的聯係和互文等等，打破左翼/非左翼的傳統視角。
評分##"Left-wing culture of glass"
評分##I spent nearly two months reading this book, which inspired my study of early Chinese film history because my field is focusing on Left-wing film culture and Wartime Chongqing. Professor Bao is an excellent, intellectual, and talented scholar whose study encouraging me to do better in the future.
評分##Mark一下生日當天終於看完。既紮實又有理論雄心。真的佩服整個narrative的框架。除瞭其他短評提到的對affect概念的重構，打破以上海為中心的電影史敘事之外，特彆印象深刻的是對media network/intermediality的探討，以及propoganda和商業電影如何在affective medium上的交匯。用Fire的意象串聯起整個曆史書寫和理論框架，感覺還挺有說服力的。
評分##slightly overrated? 除瞭glass architecture眼前一亮以外，其他都像是把media theory的framework套在電影上
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