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Phillips, Alastair (2014) 24 City : introduction. Screen, Volume 55 (Number 2). pp. 254-255. doi:10.1093/screen/hju017 ISSN 0036-9543.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/screen/hju017
Abstract
In the six years since its release in 2008, Jia Zhangke's 24 City/Er shi si cheng ji has achieved global recognition for its subtle orchestration of representational strategies in order to present a multilayered report on the changes facing the urban population of today's postsocialist China. The film is largely based around a series of interviews with the people who have lived and worked in Factory 420, a former military aeroplane manufacturing site based in the city of Chengdu in the country's southwestern province of Sichuan. Factory 420 was previously one of China's State-Owned Enterprises, but under the terms of the new reform-based economy it is shown in the film being demolished, its workers and residents displaced to make way for a luxury high-rise office and apartment development called ‘24 City’. Bringing together real workers and scripted recollections performed by professional actors, Jia's …
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > Film and Television Studies | ||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Screen | ||||
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press | ||||
| ISSN: | 0036-9543 | ||||
| Official Date: | 2014 | ||||
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| Volume: | Volume 55 | ||||
| Number: | Number 2 | ||||
| Page Range: | pp. 254-255 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.1093/screen/hju017 | ||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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