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This lecture explores the implications of independently produced Chinese documentary cinema in the Anglophone market, using 'Plastic China' as a case study.

This lecture will focus on independently produced Chinese documentary cinema as it has entered the Anglophone industry market. Using “Plastic China” by the award-winning director Wang Jiuliang as a case study, I will explore what the implications of cross-border collaborations are for documentary form and content, and how this may encourage a particular set of viewer responses. This will allow me to locate the documentary form in relation to broader liberal arguments over China’s place in the...

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Guest: Luke Robinson

Topics covered

• Chinese documentary
• cross-border collaborations
• viewer responses
• documentary form
• liberal arguments
• Anglophone market

Keywords

• Chinese documentary
• Plastic China
• Wang Jiuliang
• documentary cinema
• Anglophone industry
• cross-border collaborations
• viewer responses

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Organizations: Gresham College

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