Humanism, the Avant-Garde and Commercialism: Writing about the PRC New Waves

The In-Laws (Xi yingmen, dir. Zhao Huanzhang, Shanghai Film Studio, 1981, video source: Youtube)

 

Reign Behind a Curtain (Chuilian tingzheng, dir. Li Hanxiang, 1983, 

Mainland China and Hong Kong, video source: Youtube)

Tracing humanism

 

Political melodrama and the Xie Jin model

                                    

 

The Legend of Tianyun Mountain (Tianyunshan chuanqi, dir. Xie Jin, 1980, video source: Youtube)

The fourth generation

A Girl from Hunan (Xiangnu xiaoxiao, dir. Xie Fei, 1986, photo source: Asiapacificfilms.com) 

 

Old Well (Laojing, dir. Wu Tianming, 1987, video source: Youtube) 

Women directors

                                                                          

 

Sacrificed Youth (Qingchun ji, dir. Zhang Nuanxin, 1985, video source: Youtube) 

Woman Demon Human (Ren Gui Qing, dir. Huang Shuqin, 1987, video source: Youtube)

The fifth generation

    

Yellow Earth (Huang tudi, dir. Chen Kaige, 1984, video source: Youtube) 

Red Sorghum (Hong gaoliang, dir. Zhang Yimou, 1987, video source: Youtube)

Hey Sister! (Voice of China version)

Composition and the image

Sound

Sample writing