In this presentation, Tara will discuss the documentary mode in the work of Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke, paying particular attention to his 2008 film, “24 City”, about the closing of a factory to make way for a housing development. Tara argues that the tension between the documentary form and the fictionalized elements of the film are part of a particular poetics in Jia’s work, a poetics that posits new modes of understanding and remembering in contemporary Chinese experience.
Event Details
The Poetics of Memory in the Documentary Films of Jia Zhangke
- Speaker: Tara Coleman
- Event Type: Graduate Student Colloquia
- Event Date: 2012-10-25
- Event Start Time: 5:30 PM
- Event Location: 195 College Avenue