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Urban Horror: Neoliberal Post-Socialism and the Limits of Visibility
By (author) Erin Y. Huang
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In Urban Horror Erin Y. Huang theorizes the economic, cultural, and political conditions of neoliberal post-socialist China. Drawing on Marxist phenomenology, geography, and aesthetics from Engels and Merleau-Ponty to Lefebvre and RanciÈre, Huang traces the emergence and mediation of what she calls urban horror-a sociopolitical public affect that exceeds comprehension and provides the grounds for possible future revolutionary dissent. She shows how documentaries, blockbuster feature films, and video art from China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan made between the 1990s and the present rehearse and communicate urban horror. In these films urban horror circulates through myriad urban spaces characterized by the creation of speculative crises, shifting temporalities, and dystopic environments inhospitable to the human body. The cinematic image and the aesthetics of urban horror in neoliberal post-socialist China lay the groundwork for the future to such an extent, Huang contends, that the seeds of dissent at the heart of urban horror make it possible to imagine new forms of resistance.
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Publisher | Duke University Press
Published date | 28 Feb 2020
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Format | Paperback / softback
Pages | 288
Dimensions | 229 x 152 x 0mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 408g
ISBN | 978-1-4780-0809-5
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BISAC | performing arts / film & video / history & criticism
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