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1. Chinese Cinema

   Edited by Chris Berry

   Series: Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies

   Chinese cinema is the only non-English language cinema to have a significant global presence. From multiplex blockbusters like Ang Lee’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon to festival hits such as Jia Zhangke’s Still Life, Chinese cinema succeeds like no other foreign-language cinema. The...

   Published December 5th 2012 by Routledge
2. Adventure Education

   An Introduction

   Edited by Chris Hodgson, Matt Berry

   Adventure Education is a form of experiential learning typically associated with activities involving risk, from cooperative games such as raft building to high adventure activities such as rock climbing. Adventure Education: An Introduction provides a comprehensive introduction to the...

   Published April 20th 2011 by Routledge
3. Postsocialist Cinema in Post-Mao China

   The Cultural Revolution after the Cultural Revolution

   By Chris Berry

   Series: East Asia: History, Politics, Sociology and Culture

   This book argues that the fundamental shift in Chinese Cinema away from Socialism and towards Post-Socialism can be located earlier than the emergence of the "Fifth Generation" in the mid-eighties when it is usually assumed to have occured. By close analysis of films from the 1949-1976 Maoist era...

   Published November 5th 2008 by Routledge