Background Matters

Set and Design, Mind and Environment
1. Auflage 2027
ISBN: 978-0-520-43051-8
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 348 Seiten, Cloth Over Boards, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: Cinema Cultures in Contact

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.This wide-ranging intellectual and media history traces China’s emergence as a modern state in which boundaries blur between art and design, education and psychological conditioning. Tracking the parallel development of set design and social engineering from the 1920s to the 1960s, Background Matters examines the concept of huanjing (environment), a neologism introduced at the turn of the twentieth century that evoked heated intellectual debates and inspired frenzied aesthetic experimentation. Weihong Bao shows how efforts to reshape the mind consolidated the idea and art of environment by advancing a new theoretical notion of set design: both as aesthetic organization across film, theater, radio, and television and as social experimentation in worldmaking across geopolitical and transnational contexts. Inventive and breathtaking in scope, this book radically rethinks environment not as an external object but as the nexus of mind, medium, and society.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bao, Weihong

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Technologie: Soziale & Ethische Aspekte
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Geschichte der Kunstwissenschaft und Kunstkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunsttheorie, Kunstphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

ContentsIntroductionPart One. Mindset  1. Mind, Set, and Environment  2. The Art of Control: Hong Shen, Behavioral Psychology, and the Technics of Social EffectsPart Two. Doubt  3. Dwelling in Motion: Time, Mood, and Rhythmic Environment  4. Hermeneutics of Doubt: Atmospheric Knowing and an Ecology of the MindPart Three. Influence  5. A Socialist Cosmopolitics of Television  6. Cybernetics of InfluenceConclusion. Between Culture and Technics: Set Design as Media ParadigmAcknowledgmentsChinese/Kanji Character GlossaryNotesIndex

Über Autor(innen)

Weihong Bao is Associate Professor of Film and Media at the University of California, Berkeley. She is author of Fiery Cinema: The Emergence of an Affective Medium in China, 1915–1945.