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The Art of Useless: Fashion, Media, and Consumer Culture in Contemporary China

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Author(s): Calvin Hui
Edition: 1
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Year: 2021

Language: English
Pages: 340
City: New York

Series Page
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Trouble with Naming: Middle-Class Culture, Petty-Bourgeois Sensibility, and Zhuang (裝)
Chapter One: Dirty Fashion: Ma Ke’s Fashion Exhibit Useless (2007), Jia Zhangke’s Documentary Film Useless (2007), and Cognitive Mapping
Chapter Two: The High-Quality Suit, Class Struggle, and Cultural Revolution: The Politics of Consumption in Xie Tieli’s Film Never Forget (1964)
Chapter Three: “Mao’s Children Are Wearing Fashion!”: Romantic Love, Fashion Consumption, and Modernization Politics in Huang Zumo’s Film Romance on Lu Mountain (1980)
Chapter Four: Imag(in)ing the Chinese Middle-Class Culture: White-Collar Work, Romantic Love, and Fashion Consumption
Chapter Five: Between Production and Consumption: Chinese Migrant Factory Workers in Documentary Films and Ethnographic Works
Chapter Six: The Psychic Life of Rubbish: On Wang Jiuliang’s Documentary Film Beijing Besieged by Waste (2010)
Notes
Works Cited
Index