Shi-nematic afterimages: semiocapitalism and Chinese cine-cities

Author:

Fleming David H.1,Harrison Simon2

Affiliation:

1. Communications, Media and Culture , University of Stirling , Stirling , UK

2. Department of English , City University of Hong Kong , Kowloon , Hong Kong

Abstract

Abstract In this essay, we revisit our interdisciplinary approach to the “becoming-cinema” of Chinese life and cities in the contemporary era, while critically revisiting our notion of “shi-nema” (which combines the Chinese concept of “shi” (势) with a detoured notion of “cinematicity”) which we forward as a provocative “image for thought” that explodes the concerns of modern film studies. Revisiting our multi-scalar fractal method, on this outing we specifically engage with a nexus of new semiocapitalist images and urban sites/sights that foreground how rapidly the psychogeographic circumstances in post-socialist Chinese cine-cities evolve and mutate. Our essay opens with a fresh film-philosophy conceptualisation of “afterimages”, blending cinematic, city and conceptual varieties before moving on to critically engage with a new constellation of interviews and images drawn from Chinese film, television, streaming platforms, social media and commercial real estate apps.

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Subject

General Medicine

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