04301nam a22005775i 4500 978-981-97-2736-0 DE-He213 20251030112705.0 cr nn 008mamaa 240801s2024 si | s |||| 0|eng d 9789819727360 978-981-97-2736-0 10.1007/978-981-97-2736-0 doi GN301-674 JHMC bicssc SOC002010 bisacsh JHMC thema Guo, Jianbin. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 81733 Being Present: Mobile Cinema in Kham Tibetan Areas [electronic resource] / by Jianbin Guo, Jingjing Chen. 1st ed. 2024. Singapore : Springer Nature Singapore : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. XXVII, 401 p. 14 illus., 5 illus. in color. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Pluralism, Culture and Communication in Contemporary China 1. 'Being Present' as an Analytical Concept -- 2. Fieldwork area and research methodology -- 3. The 'Presence' of the State and Its Reflection -- 4. The Historical Evolution of Mobile Cinema in the 'Great Trian' Region -- 5. The Film The Serf and its 'Identity Conferment' -- 6. 'The Visual Performance' of the State -- 7. 'Transition' and its Implications -- 8. Touring with Mobile Film Screening Van -- 9. An 'old projectionist' and his successors -- 10. The story of an Individual Projectionist -- 11. From 'Actor' to 'Film herdsman' -- 12. 'Viewers Being Present' and Its Theoretical Implications -- 13. An Investigation of the Film Viewing Practice Among Primary School Students in a Central Primary School -- 14. A study on the Viewing of the Movies The Serf and The Silent Holy Stones -- 15. Watching Movies as a Social Activity -- 16. Film Viewers as 'Interpretive Communities' -- 16. Conclusion: 'Being Present' and Mobile Cinema in Contemporary China. This book presents the restoration of rural mobile cinema network in the Great Triangle region at the conjunction of Yunnan, Sichuan, and Tibet in China in the new century, which has added a new chapter to the long-standing complex relationship between cinema and social change. Based on five years of multi-sited fieldwork, abundant interviews and oral history narratives, this work shows the entanglement of the State, the projectionists and local film viewers in the historical and social context in a holistic analytic framework. By using the key concept of “being present” to examine the tangling relations between the actors in mobile cinema as social practice, the work argues that mobile cinema and contemporary Chinese society are mutually constructed in both textual and practical level. Guo Jianbin is a professor at School of Journalism and Communication at Guangzhou Universality, China. As a pioneer and leading scholar in media anthropology in China, he is well-known for his ethnographic studies on communication and social change in Dulong and Tibetan areas. Chen Jingjing is an associated professor at School of Journalism, Yunnan University, Kunming, China. . Ethnology. 58687 Mass media. 1769 Communication. 59615 Information theory. 57783 Sociocultural Anthropology. 71227 Ethnography. 70800 Media Sociology. 69143 Media and Communication Theory. 71787 Chen, Jingjing. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 81734 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9789819727353 Printed edition: 9789819727377 Printed edition: 9789819727384 Pluralism, Culture and Communication in Contemporary China 81735 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-2736-0 ZDB-2-SLS ZDB-2-SXS 62147 62147