{"65351":{"#nid":"65351","#data":{"type":"news","title":"LCC and High Museum Present Independent Chinese Cinema Series","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIndependent Chinese Cinema is a series of three films being co-presented April 2-16 by the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture and the High Museum.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EKey themes and sentiments of the series are: China, youth, pain, hope, migration, home, education, work, reality, and dream. Co-curated by LCC Professor Qi Wang and Linda Dubler of the High Museum, the films are selected from \u201cthe increasingly prominent corpus of independent Chinese cinema.\u201d The curators write that, \u201cThrough them we hope to offer a brief yet fruitful insight in Chinese society today, as updated within the past decade, and to try together to understand and perhaps share the country\u0027s changes, charms, and challenges as experienced and contemplated by the Chinese, not only as groups but also as individuals.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe three films are: \u003Cem\u003E Last Train Home\u003C\/em\u003E (April 2, 8pm), a documentary by Canadian-Chinese filmmaker, Lixin Fan, about the largest human migration on earth as seen through the experience of two of the 130 million Chinese workers traveling home for the annual lunar New Year. \u003Cem\u003EIn Senior Year \u003C\/em\u003E(April 9, 8pm), Zhou Hao illuminates the extreme anxiety of Chinese teenagers preparing for the national college entrance exams that will determine their destiny. This film may generate special interest because of the recent \u2018Superior Chinese Tiger Mother\u2019 controversy.  \u003Cem\u003ESuzhou River\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;(April 16, 8pm),\u0026nbsp;is a modern noir film whose stylistic virtuosity reflects the \u201cwatery channel that runs through Shanghai\u201d and takes its narrative framework form Alfred Hitchcock\u2019s Vertigo .\n\nAll films are subtitled in English.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIndependent Chinese Cinema is a series of three films being co-presented April 2-16 by the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture and the High Museum.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27418","created_gmt":"2011-04-04 13:21:17","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:08:30","author":"Lauren Langley","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2011-04-01T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2011-04-01T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"65352":{"id":"65352","type":"image","title":"Independent Chinese Cinema Series","body":null,"created":"1449176831","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:07:11","changed":"1475894557","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:42:37","alt":"Independent Chinese Cinema Series","file":{"fid":"192223","name":"chinese_cinema_1.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/chinese_cinema_1_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/chinese_cinema_1_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":32238,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/chinese_cinema_1_0.jpg?itok=tOtpf77Y"}}},"media_ids":["65352"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/news-and-events\/event?id=64827","title":"Event Page"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.high.org\/main.taf?p=4,4,24","title":"High Museum"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/files\/wysiwyg\/file\/High%20Museum%20China%20Film%20Flyer.pdf","title":"Event Flyer"}],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[{"id":"133","name":"Special Events and Guest Speakers"}],"keywords":[{"id":"12299","name":"High Museum"},{"id":"12649","name":"Independent Chinese Cinema"},{"id":"875","name":"LCC"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ERebecca Keane\u0026nbsp; 404-894-1720\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["rebecca.keane@iac.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}