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ICS Lecture: Nicole Talmacs, "The Rise of China’s Film Industry: Concerns and Desires"

February 22, 2018
All Day
Page Hall 020

Time: 4 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Event Host: East Asian Studies Center


The Institute for Chinese Studies presents the Re-Imagining China's Past and Present Lecture Series:

Nicole Talmacs
Xi-an Jiaotong – Liverpool University

"The Rise of China’s Film Industry: Concerns and Desires"

Abstract: China’s film industry is touted to become the world’s largest in the very near future. The rise of China’s film industry has taken place alongside China’s rise as a global power. Many of the concerns and desires in the nation’s new found position are arguably reflected in China’s cinema programming and filmmaking. This lecture considers how we might interpret these concerns and desires through a variety of angles. Firstly, the nation’s domestic filmmaking trends; secondly, China’s approval of certain foreign films for theatrical release across the nation; thirdly, Chinese Wanda’s acquisitions of foreign cinema chains; fourthly, the reception of Chinese films abroad; and finally, China’s official film co-production treaties. In combination, the rise of China’s film industry appears less focused on “what the audience wants” and storytelling innovation, and rather focused on balancing two pressing concerns and desires for the nation. These are identified as mobilizing imaginations about social change in China domestically, while containing the messages communicated about who and what China is to a global film market’s audience.  

Free and open to the public. Click here for more information.

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