Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction. Inscribing the Real: Cinematic Realism and Convention
1. Acting Real in Chinese Silent Cinema
2. Shanghaiing Hollywood in the 1930s
3. Realism and Event in Postwar Chinese Cinema
4. Prescriptive Realism in Revolutionary Cinema of the Seventeen Years
5. Socialist Formalism and the End(s) of Revolutionary Cinema
6. A Long Take on Post–Socialist Realism
7. Chinese Cinematic Realism(s) in the Digital Age
Conclusion
Notes
Index