Painting the City Red: Chinese Cinema and the Urban Contract

摘要

Yomi Braester's Painting the City Red: Chinese Cinema and the Urban Contract is a revisionist study of, as well as an important theoretical intervention in, Chinese urban cinema and drama between 1949 and 2008 that is rooted in close textual readings and archival research. By tracing the urban development of such cities as Beijing, Shanghai and Taipei, Braester's work sheds new light on the intimate and shifting power relationships between urban planning, film and theatrical productions on the one hand, and the tensions between cinematic representations of city spaces and urban discourses of global modernity on the other. In Painting the City Red, Braester returns to the centre stage the role of urban visual media in creating real and imaginary temporal, spatial and ideological dimensions of today's Chinese citys-capes.