How Long to Read Close-ups and Long Shots in Modern Chinese Cinemas

How Long Does it Take to Read Close-ups and Long Shots in Modern Chinese Cinemas?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 15 minutes to read Close-ups and Long Shots in Modern Chinese Cinemas by Hsiu-Chuang Deppman

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Two of the most stylized shots in cinema—the close-up and the long shot—embody distinct attractions. The iconicity of the close-up magnifies the affective power of faces and elevates film to the discourse of art. The depth of the long shot, in contrast, indexes the facts of life and reinforces our faith in reality. Each configures the relation between image and distance that expands the viewer’s power to see, feel, and conceive. To understand why a director prefers one type of shot over the other then is to explore more than aesthetics: It uncovers significant assumptions about film as an art of intervention or organic representation. Close-ups and Long Shots in Modern Chinese Cinemas is the first book to compare these two shots within the cultural, historical, and cinematic traditions that produced them. In particular, the global revival of Confucian studies and the transnational appeal of feminism in the 1980s marked a new turn in the composite cultural education of Chinese directors whose shot selections can be seen as not only stylistic expressions, but ethical choices responding to established norms about self-restraint, ritualism, propriety, and female agency. Each of the films discussed—Zhang Yimou’s Red Sorghum, Ang Lee’s Lust, Caution, Hou Hsiao-hsien’s The Assassin, Jia Zhangke’s I Wish I Knew, and Wei Desheng’s Cape No. 7— represents a watershed in Chinese cinemas that redefines the evolving relations among film, politics, and ethics. Together these works provide a comprehensive picture of how directors contextualize close-ups and long shots in ways that make them interpretable across many films as bellwethers of social change.

How long is Close-ups and Long Shots in Modern Chinese Cinemas?

Close-ups and Long Shots in Modern Chinese Cinemas by Hsiu-Chuang Deppman is 193 pages long, and a total of 48,829 words.

This makes it 65% the length of the average book. It also has 60% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Close-ups and Long Shots in Modern Chinese Cinemas Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 26 minutes to read Close-ups and Long Shots in Modern Chinese Cinemas aloud.

What Reading Level is Close-ups and Long Shots in Modern Chinese Cinemas?

Close-ups and Long Shots in Modern Chinese Cinemas is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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