The search for the beautiful woman : a cultural history of Japanese and Chinese beauty / by Chō, Kyō, 1953-

Table of Contents: “…The search for the beautiful woman -- Favored appearances -- Feared beauties -- The rhetoric of representation -- Beauty as a construct -- Beautiful women in Chinese verse and prose, beautiful women in Japanese literature -- Symphony of aesthetics -- Edo culture as a filter -- Toward the birth of Naomi -- Epilogue: The future of beauty.…”
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The making of The wandering earth : a film production handbook /

Table of Contents: “…Foreword / by Liu Cixin -- Foreword / by La Peikang -- Foreword / by Song Ge -- Summoning the heroes -- "Worldbuilding" : creating the blueprint for a world -- Screenplay : not simply science fiction, but character creation -- Aesthetics : a taste of Soviet industrial style -- Conceptual design : more than concepts -- Previewing : the Previz dynamic storyboard -- Photography : a symphony of light and shadow -- "The four big shots" -- Director panel : growing wildly -- Camera crew : striving for texture -- Art department : realizing the imagination with Chinese characteristics -- The challenge of industrialization, science fiction's calling -- Ideal actors & actors' ideals -- Editing : a second creation through simplification -- Visual effects in post-production : technology and beauty -- Sound effects : an acoustic feast to arouse Chinese memory -- Post-production : the life and death choices of a VFX-heavy film -- Conclusion: Voices from film crew members.…”
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The making of The wandering earth : a film production handbook /

Table of Contents: “…Foreword / by Liu Cixin -- Foreword / by La Peikang -- Foreword / by Song Ge -- Summoning the heroes -- "Worldbuilding" : creating the blueprint for a world -- Screenplay : not simply science fiction, but character creation -- Aesthetics : a taste of Soviet industrial style -- Conceptual design : more than concepts -- Previewing : the Previz dynamic storyboard -- Photography : a symphony of light and shadow -- "The four big shots" -- Director panel : growing wildly -- Camera crew : striving for texture -- Art department : realizing the imagination with Chinese characteristics -- The challenge of industrialization, science fiction's calling -- Ideal actors & actors' ideals -- Editing : a second creation through simplification -- Visual effects in post-production : technology and beauty -- Sound effects : an acoustic feast to arouse Chinese memory -- Post-production : the life and death choices of a VFX-heavy film -- Conclusion: Voices from film crew members.…”
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Rhapsody in red : how western classical music became Chinese / by Melvin, Sheila (Journalist)

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China's iGeneration - Cinema and Moving Image Culture for the Twenty-First Century. by D. Johnson, Matthew, Vulpiani, Luke, B. Wagner, Keith, Yu, Tianqui

Table of Contents: “…Luke VULPIANI: Goodbye to the Grim Real, Hello to What Comes Next: The Moment of Passage from the Sixth Generation to the iGeneration -- Ling ZHANG: Digitizing City Symphony, Stabilizing the Shadow of Time: Montage and Temporal-Spatial Construction in San Yuan Li -- Dan GAO: From Pirate to Kino-eye: A Genealogical Tale of Film Re-Distribution in China -- Keith B. …”
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China's iGeneration : cinema and moving image culture for the twenty-first century / by Johnson, Matthew D., Wagner, Keith B., 1978-, Yu, Kiki Tianqi, Vulpiani, Luke

Table of Contents: “…Luke VULPIANI: Goodbye to the Grim Real, Hello to What Comes Next: The Moment of Passage from the Sixth Generation to the iGeneration -- Ling ZHANG: Digitizing City Symphony, Stabilizing the Shadow of Time: Montage and Temporal-Spatial Construction in San Yuan Li -- Dan GAO: From Pirate to Kino-eye: A Genealogical Tale of Film Re-Distribution in China -- Keith B. …”
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