
Published online:
21 January 2016
Published in print:
15 March 2015
Online ISBN:
9781452950655
Print ISBN:
9780816681334
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Between Stage and Screen: An Intermediated Encounter Between Stage and Screen: An Intermediated Encounter
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Extraordinary and Technological: The Virtual Body and the Locus of the Real Extraordinary and Technological: The Virtual Body and the Locus of the Real
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Modernist Action: Toward an Aesthetics of New Heroism Modernist Action: Toward an Aesthetics of New Heroism
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The Audience’s Resonance: Kuriyagawa and Bergson in Martial Arts Films The Audience’s Resonance: Kuriyagawa and Bergson in Martial Arts Films
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Hero in the Fire Hero in the Fire
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Sensation and Sentimentality: The Dual Operations of Affect Sensation and Sentimentality: The Dual Operations of Affect
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2 A Culture of Resonance: Hypnotism, Wireless Cinema, and the Invention of Intermedial Spectatorship
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Chapter
1 Fiery Action: Toward an Aesthetics of New Heroism
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Pages
39–90
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Published:March 2015
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Bao, Weihong, 'Fiery Action: Toward an Aesthetics of New Heroism', 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/9780816681334.003.0001, accessed 28 Apr. 2025.
Abstract
Chapter 1 situates the action-based aesthetic of “fiery films” (1927 to 1931) as a response to Hollywood serialized thrillers mediated by the competition between stage and screen. I complicate the popular scene by looking at how New Heroism, a composite modernist discourse, reframed “fiery films” to foreground “resonance” as a theory of affect for its distinct social and aesthetic agendas.
Keywords:
Affect, Medium, Intermediality, Propaganda, Spectatorship, Chinese cinema, Architecture, wireless technology, early television, aesthetics
Subject
Film
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