On the Road: Screening Chinese Cinema through a Postmodern Lens

Abstract

On the Road: Screening Chinese Cinema through a Postmodern Lens includes a variety of navigation services through the central debate on postmodernism as a cross-cultural study that recovers and represents Chinese film world of the past and the present, of home and abroad. Postmodernism in this dissertation branches out in several directions: personal identification, postmodern nihilism, psychological injury, postmodern allegory, plurality of truths, and widespread social morality. This dissertation explores deep into human psyche and the society to reveal the formula of local susceptibility to cultural globalization, and the compromise required to pursue reasonable applications. The analysis of individuality and society furthermore expands the importance of critical theory in the re-evaluation of the entire Chinese film world. It contains the conviction that the underlying chain of thought linking all of these directions is ‘postmodernism’.