Chinese Dreams of Nostalgia and Fantasy: Cultural Critique in Feng Xiaogang's Personal Tailor (2013)
Publication Name
Journal of Chinese Film Studies
Abstract
This study sheds new light on Feng Xiaogang, one of China's most successful film directors, through an investigation of how Personal Tailor (2013) engages with the guiding rhetoric and ideals underpinning the "Chinese Dream". The authors demonstrate how the hybrid political-commercial-artistic critique of the Chinese Dream in Personal Tailor offers poignant commentary on China's quest for national rejuvenation during a period when China continues to struggle with increasing social and economic inequalities. By foregrounding these complex tensions between political and economic rationalism, and their intersections with an imagined nostalgia as a key story-telling trope, this study shows how Feng and Personal Tailor are expanding the boundaries of contemporary Chinese cinema in a new era of globalized commercial culture.
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Volume
2
Issue
1
First Page
95
Last Page
116