Part I. Resonance
1. Fiery Action: Toward an Aesthetics of New Heroism
2. A Culture of Resonance: Hypnotism, Wireless Cinema, and the Invention of Intermedial Spectatorship
Part II. Transparency
3. Dances of Fire: Mediating Affective Immediacy
4. Transparent Shanghai: Cinema, Architecture, and a Left-Wing Culture of Glass
Part III. Agitation
5. “A Vibrating Art in the Air”: The Infinite Cinema and the Media Ensemble of Propaganda
6. Baptism by Fire: Atmospheric War, Agitation, and a Tale of Three Cities
Acknowledgments
Notes
Filmography
Index
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具體描述
What was cinema in modern China? It was, this book tells us, a dynamic entity, not strictly tied to one media technology, one mode of operation, or one system of aesthetic code. It was, in Weihong Bao’s term, an affective medium, a distinct notion of the medium as mediating environment with the power to stir passions, frame perception, and mold experience. In Fiery Cinema, Bao traces the permutations of this affective medium from the early through the mid-twentieth century, exploring its role in aesthetics, politics, and social institutions.
Mapping the changing identity of cinema in China in relation to Republican-era print media, theatrical performance, radio broadcasting, television, and architecture, Bao has created an archaeology of Chinese media culture. Within this context, she grounds the question of spectatorial affect and media technology in China’s experience of mechanized warfare, colonial modernity, and the shaping of the public into consumers, national citizens, and a revolutionary collective subject. Carrying on a close conversation with transnational media theory and history, she teases out the tension and affinity between vernacular, political modernist, and propagandistic articulations of mass culture in China’s varied participation in modernity.
Fiery Cinema advances a radical rethinking of affect and medium as a key insight into the relationship of cinema to the public sphere and the making of the masses. By centering media politics in her inquiry of the forgotten future of cinema, Bao makes a major intervention into the theory and history of media.
用戶評價
##重寫中國電影史和媒介史。低調，紮實，漂亮。
評分##I spent nearly two months reading this book, which inspired my study of early Chinese film history because my field is focusing on Left-wing film culture and Wartime Chongqing. Professor Bao is an excellent, intellectual, and talented scholar whose study encouraging me to do better in the future.
評分##膜拜????
評分##Mark一下生日當天終於看完。既紮實又有理論雄心。真的佩服整個narrative的框架。除瞭其他短評提到的對affect概念的重構，打破以上海為中心的電影史敘事之外，特彆印象深刻的是對media network/intermediality的探討，以及propoganda和商業電影如何在affective medium上的交匯。用Fire的意象串聯起整個曆史書寫和理論框架，感覺還挺有說服力的。
評分##"Left-wing culture of glass"
評分##英語一般
評分##"Left-wing culture of glass"
評分##不是那種一眼看上去就讓人喜歡的書。槽點很多，比如語言晦澀造成的閱讀障礙、腦洞過大的理論解讀，每個章節內部的結構也有些鬆散。但相比於其他中國早期電影研究（比如張真那本），包衛紅確實抓住瞭一個更有概括力和延展性的視角。把電影看作affect medium，由此勾連瞭左翼電影和商業電影（甚至政治宣傳片），突齣瞭電影媒介和其他媒介的互動（戲劇、建築、報紙、大眾科學等等），對於重新思考20世紀中國文藝史整體都有幫助。
評分##不是那種一眼看上去就讓人喜歡的書。槽點很多，比如語言晦澀造成的閱讀障礙、腦洞過大的理論解讀，每個章節內部的結構也有些鬆散。但相比於其他中國早期電影研究（比如張真那本），包衛紅確實抓住瞭一個更有概括力和延展性的視角。把電影看作affect medium，由此勾連瞭左翼電影和商業電影（甚至政治宣傳片），突齣瞭電影媒介和其他媒介的互動（戲劇、建築、報紙、大眾科學等等），對於重新思考20世紀中國文藝史整體都有幫助。
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