dc.contributor.advisor	Schatz, Thomas, 1948-	en
dc.contributor.advisor	Chang, Sung-sheng, 1951-	en
dc.creator	Yang, Jing	en
dc.date.accessioned	2011-09-21T19:20:58Z	en
dc.date.available	2011-09-21T19:20:58Z	en
dc.date.issued	2011-08	en
dc.date.submitted	August 2011	en
dc.date.updated	2011-09-21T19:21:10Z	en
dc.description	text	en
dc.description.abstract	Compared to the early days of China’s New Documentary Movement in the 1990s, Chinese independent documentary in the past decade has become more diverse in topic and style, thanks to technologies such as digital video cameras and the internet. Independent documentaries capture a fast-changing China in progress, and have thus drawn scholarly attention from cultural or social studies perspectives. However, industrial development in the past decade has often been neglected in favor of textual analysis of films. Since the marketization of independent documentaries in the 1990s was mainly through international film festivals, and a domestic industry has been lacking, it is easy to assume that Chinese independent documentarians today still have to follow the same path as their counterparts in the 1990s. However, my research on the Chinese independent documentary scene in Beijing in 2009 showed me a picture of a burgeoning domestic industry for independent documentaries, with a handful of newly emerged multi-functional independent film organizations practicing production, distribution and exhibition. Since a real industry has not yet formed, I use “ecosystem” instead of “industry” in the context of Chinese independent documentary. This study compares three representative organizations which are different from each other in nature and emphases, from their birth and evolution to their work and strategies. I argue that these organizations have created new possibilities and opportunities for today’s Chinese independent documentaries, through their different strategies in balancing themselves in a three-legged system of the global, national and local forces and resources.	en
dc.description.department	Asian Studies	en
dc.format.mimetype	application/pdf	en
dc.identifier.slug	2152/ETD-UT-2011-08-4345	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2011-08-4345	en
dc.language.iso	eng	en
dc.subject	Chinese independent documentary	en
dc.subject	Film industry	en
dc.subject	Documentary	en
dc.subject	Film festival	en
dc.subject	China	en
dc.subject	Global	en
dc.subject	National	en
dc.subject	Local	en
dc.subject	Production	en
dc.subject	Exhibition	en
dc.subject	Distribution	en
dc.title	Tango with the global, national, and local : new multi-functional organizations in the Chinese independent documentary ecosystem	en
dc.type.genre	thesis	en
thesis.degree.department	Asian Studies	en
thesis.degree.discipline	Asian Cultures and Languages	en
thesis.degree.grantor	University of Texas at Austin	en
thesis.degree.level	Masters	en
thesis.degree.name	Master of Arts	en

Tango with the global, national, and local : new multi-functional organizations in the Chinese independent documentary ecosystem

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