Jia Zhangke is a groundbreaking Chinese filmmaker and winner of the 2015 Cannes Film Festival's Carrosse d'Or (Golden Coach) Prize for Innovation and Independence, amongst many international awards he has won.
-Films like Platform, The World, and Still Life established Jia
Zhangke as the single most important Chinese filmmaker of the past
two decades. But besides his remarkable films, Jia has also come to
be known in China as an important public intellectual and cultural
critic. With Jia Zhangke Speaks Out: The Chinese Director's Texts
on Film, the award-winning filmmaker's impressive body of writings
on contemporary cinema are finally available to English readers.
These thoughtful, insightful, and sometimes controversial essays,
interviews, and film notes are a must-read for anyone interested in
Chinese cinema or the work of this brilliant director.- -- Michael
Berry, author of Jia Zhangke's Hometown Trilogy -Think you know Jia
Zhangke because you've seen all his movies? Think again. Jia is a
public intellectual as well as a film director, at least as well
known in China for his insightful essays and online provocations as
for his unique cinema. This exciting treasury of translated
writings not only gives us Jia's thoughts on his own films but also
on the state of Chinese film culture and so much more. Now you
really know Jia.- --Chris Berry, King's College London
"Films like Platform, The World, and Still Life established Jia
Zhangke as the single most important Chinese filmmaker of the past
two decades. But besides his remarkable films, Jia has also come to
be known in China as an important public intellectual and cultural
critic. With Jia Zhangke Speaks Out: The Chinese Director's Texts
on Film, the award-winning filmmaker's impressive body of writings
on contemporary cinema are finally available to English readers.
These thoughtful, insightful, and sometimes controversial essays,
interviews, and film notes are a must-read for anyone interested in
Chinese cinema or the work of this brilliant director." -- Michael
Berry, author of Jia Zhangke's Hometown Trilogy "Think you know Jia
Zhangke because you've seen all his movies? Think again. Jia is a
public intellectual as well as a film director, at least as well
known in China for his insightful essays and online provocations as
for his unique cinema. This exciting treasury of translated
writings not only gives us Jia's thoughts on his own films but also
on the state of Chinese film culture and so much more. Now you
really know Jia." --Chris Berry, King's College London
"Films like Platform, The World, and Still Life established Jia
Zhangke as the single most important Chinese filmmaker of the past
two decades. But besides his remarkable films, Jia has also come to
be known in China as an important public intellectual and cultural
critic. With Jia Zhangke Speaks Out: The Chinese Director's Texts
on Film, the award-winning filmmaker's impressive body of writings
on contemporary cinema are finally available to English readers.
These thoughtful, insightful, and sometimes controversial essays,
interviews, and film notes are a must-read for anyone interested in
Chinese cinema or the work of this brilliant director." -- Michael
Berry, author of Jia Zhangke's Hometown Trilogy "Think you know Jia
Zhangke because you've seen all his movies? Think again. Jia is a
public intellectual as well as a film director, at least as well
known in China for his insightful essays and online provocations as
for his unique cinema. This exciting treasury of translated
writings not only gives us Jia's thoughts on his own films but also
on the state of Chinese film culture and so much more. Now you
really know Jia." --Chris Berry, King's College London
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