
Published online:
21 January 2016
Published in print:
15 March 2015
Online ISBN:
9781452950655
Print ISBN:
9780816681334
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2 A Culture of Resonance: Hypnotism, Wireless Cinema, and the Invention of Intermedial Spectatorship
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Dances of Fire: Burning the Artist’s Balcony Dances of Fire: Burning the Artist’s Balcony
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Fire and the Crowd Fire and the Crowd
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Torrent: The Limit of the Mobilized Virtual Gaze Torrent: The Limit of the Mobilized Virtual Gaze
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The New Film Culture Movement and the Question of Medium Specificity The New Film Culture Movement and the Question of Medium Specificity
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Cai Chusheng’s Politics of Medium Specificity and Intermediality Cai Chusheng’s Politics of Medium Specificity and Intermediality
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The Left-Wing Sugarcoat The Left-Wing Sugarcoat
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The New Woman: Cinema’s Medium Violence The New Woman: Cinema’s Medium Violence
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Chapter
3 Dances of Fire: Mediating Affective Immediacy
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Pages
153–196
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Published:March 2015
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Bao, Weihong, 'Dances of Fire: Mediating Affective Immediacy', Fiery Cinema: The Emergence of an Affective Medium in China, 1915-1945 (Minneapolis, MN , 2015; online edn, Minnesota Scholarship Online, 21 Jan. 2016), https://doi.org/10.5749/minnesota/9780816681334.003.0003, accessed 28 Apr. 2025.
Abstract
Chapter 3 examines how left-wing spoken drama and films invoked fire, torrents, and other natural forces to politicize spectatorial affect through visual and sensory confrontations. I then revisit the dichotomy between left-wing and “soft” film advocates by problematizing the central question of medium specificity with an inquiry of the medium and intermedial aesthetic.
Keywords:
Affect, Medium, Intermediality, Propaganda, Spectatorship, Chinese cinema, Architecture, wireless technology, early television
Subject
Film
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