Beijing Film Academy 2019

Chase Coulson Christensen

Description

The annual Beijing Film Academy Yearbook highlights the best academic debates, discussions and research from the previous year, as previously published in the highly prestigious Journal of Beijing Film Academy. This volume brings together specially selected articles, appearing for the first time in English, to bridge the gap in cross-cultural research in cinema and media studies.

The book is the latest in the Intellect China Library series to produce work by Chinese scholars that have not previously been available to English language academia. Covering the subjects of film studies, visual arts, performing arts, media and cultural studies, the series aims to foster intellectual debate and to promote closer cross-cultural intellectual exchanges by introducing important works of Chinese scholarship to readers.

Sujets

• Media Studies
• Social Science
• Sociologie, société et politique
• Película fotográfica
• Reference
• Cultural studies
• History of film
• ART
• Film
• Media

Informations

• Publié par: Intellect Books
• Date de parution: 31 août 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781789386004
• Langue: English

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Beijing Film Academy Yearbook 2019
Intellect China Library
Series editor: Hiu M. Chan
The Intellect China Library series brings together important research from Chinese scholars that has never before been available in English. Focusing on art and contemporary culture, the series covers a wide variety of subjects including film studies, visual arts, performing arts, media, and cultural studies. The series aims to foster academic debate and promote closer cross-cultural exchanges by introducing important works of Chinese scholarship to readers.
Other titles in the series:
Beijing Film Academy Yearbook 2015 (2016)
Beijing Film Academy Yearbook 2016 (2017)
Beijing Film Academy Yearbook 2017 (2018)
Beijing Film Academy Yearbook 2018 (2021)
Film Studies in China: Selected Writings from Contemporary Cinema (2017)
Cultural Industries in Shanghai: Policy and Planning inside a Global City (2018)
The Future of Humanity (2019)
Dance Studies in China: Selected Writings from the Journal of Beijing Dance Academy (2022)
The Future of Humanity Second edition (2022)
Beijing Film Academy Yearbook 2019

EDITED BY Journal of Beijing Film Academy
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Contents
1. 40 Years in a Flash: 1978-2018: The 40-Year Course of Reform at the Beijing Film Academy
Zhang Huijun
2. Global Cultural Transformations: 40 Years of Chinese Cinema after the Reform and Opening up Policy
Yin Hong
3. The Potential Influence of the Traditional Aesthetic Principle of Metapneumity on Art Appreciation
Hu Ke
4. On the Modern Cinematic Transformation of the Spirit of Chinese Art
Chen Xuguang
5. The China Story Awakens a Cinematic Force: The Emergence of a Traditional Archetype in New Century Chinese Fantasy
Cheng Bo
6. Spatial Image Composition in Chinese Film
Gong Lin
7. In Search of the New Nora : The Death of Yuli and 1920s Singaporean-Chinese Cultural Identity
Li Yi
8. The Classical Charm and Wild Energy of Film Adaptation: Focus on The Cave of the Silken Web
Xun Feng
9. The Dissemination and Acceptance of German UFA Films in Republican-Era Shanghai
Xiong Ying
10. Taking the Road Less Travelled: An Interview with Zhao Xiaoding, Director of Photography of Shadow
Zhao Xiaoding, Cao Ting, and Ji Yatai

Notes on Contributors
Advisory and Editorial Board
1 40 Years in a Flash: 1978-2018: The 40-Year Course of Reform at the Beijing Film Academy
Zhang Huijun
The period from 1978 to 2018 is a 40-year era of reform that changed the destiny of a nation. As a witness, partaker, participant and chronicler who has been with the academy every step of the way during its development, I have grown up with the students, teachers and managers at the Beijing Film Academy (BFA), and, over time, the different positions I have held at the school have allowed me to truly feel the road of development under my feet as I have weathered the changes and transformations and seen first-hand the growth of the BFA and the People s Republic over different historical periods.
For the past 40 years, the Beijing Film Academy has undergone a protracted process of institutional reform and opening up to ideas, techniques and technologies from around the globe over the period from 1978 to 2018, and this has shaped the school into a highly technical institution on the cusp of developing into a world-class film school. Today, the Beijing Film Academy has truly become the mecca of China s film technical education and the bastion of talent training in China s film industry. The Academy is strongly accountable for maturing the fields of film technology, film art and academic film research, and is the national ensign of highly technical, specialized film education.
Chinese film education is rapidly gaining a foothold in the wider world, which is the fruit of 40 years of painstaking effort by the BFA. In terms of education and training, the Academy has been carrying out its goals of pragmatic development, sound, systematic education and pooled strength, and from this noble purpose, it has made amazing achievements, incubated and nurtured crops of superlative talent and achieved unparalleled results. Beijing Film Academy-style education embodies the nation s emphasis on the utmost in professional film education. This developmental process of Chinese film education is most certainly the result of changing teaching concepts, reconstructed historical value systems and diverse innovation trends.
In retrospect, 1978 marked the beginning of the golden age of Chinese filmmaking education. At the same time, it has pioneering and epochal significance in the history of Chinese film and the development of Chinese filmmaking education. It ushered in the revival of Chinese culture and has been integral to the growth and development of the country. Filmmaking talent in the industry educated and trained at the BFA has collectively established a new paradigm of film education. The year 2018 not only marked the entrance of Chinese cinema into a resplendent new era but also signified a new zenith in China s 40-year reformation odyssey, a grand modernization effort of the country s film education so gargantuan that its manifestation required the adoption of the Open-Door Policy and the sudden and sweeping reforms that accompanied it.
Educational reform and whirlwind development
The reinstatement of undergraduate recruitment
To execute the Party Central Committee and State Council resolutions, enrolment of the film programme was quickly reinstated.
On 24 May 1977, paramount leader Deng Xiaoping, who had undergone hardships and come out the other side stronger and more determined, delivered an important speech on respecting knowledge and talent . On 8 August, Deng Xiaoping hosted a national science and education symposium where he expressed his resolve to reinstate the Academy entrance examination. On 12 October, the State Council endorsed the Suggestions for Student Enrolment Work at Institutions of Higher Learning for the Year 1977 bill proposed by the Ministry of Education, officially winding back the clock on the historically significant standardized entrance examinations for national higher education. On 20 October, the motion for resuming the standardized Academy entrance examination was officially entered into legislation, and it was these efforts that paved the way for the standardized enrolment system for higher education institutions in the winter of 1978. The Academy entrance examination provided the possibility for young people in that era to place their fate in their own hands and it became a turning point for the country s higher education system. Although there were only a few schools doing student enrolments in 1977, it was a potent symbol of something that was infinitely more far-reaching.
In 1978, the Beijing Film Academy reinstated undergraduate admission examinations for the Directing, Acting, Cinematography, Production Design and Sound Design departments as per state resolution, laying the foundation for the cultivation of Chinese film specialization and the revitalization of the filmmaking industry, the provision of prospective film specialization with a technically sound and distinctively Chinese film education, as well as giving film graduates a significant head start towards their future film careers. Unlike the previous teaching methodologies and Western film training models, the Beijing Film Academy has incubated an educational system from within its own distinct culture, and through this, the Academy has reaped great rewards.
On 18 September 1978, the first group of 159 alumni at the Beijing Film Academy - the Class of '78 - was enrolled and subsequently immortalized in the influential journal Cahiers Du Cinema after the end of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. To me, this is one of the 100 most exciting moments in history.
Determining a new location
The application for a new campus ends our students vagabond life .
During the Cultural Revolution, the Beijing Film Academy was banished to Zhuxingzhuang in Changping, way out on the outskirts of Beijing, and, like a homeless child, life was troubled and unstable. There was no cultural milieu or educational environment; we were experiencing shortages of teaching supplies and facilities needed to run a school. Teachers would muddle through their classes, and students would plagiarize one another s work, compromising the entire educational process. Even seeing a film, play or expo was a long-haul journey into town. A professional film school absolutely cannot operate successfully located in the outlying areas of a city, so finding a more suitable location for the school became a top priority.
On 4 May 1978, the Academy s leadership team wrote an official appeal to the Ministry of Culture, applying for the repurposing of a piece of land