Transitions of (dis)appearance: Aesthetics and Political Practices in Chinese Ecocinema

本文将在后社会主义语境下研究中国生态电影。它将探讨中国大陆政府对环保主义的态度和政策是如何塑造生态电影人的审美选择和政治实践的。通过对生态电影文本进行严密的文本分析，它将质疑审美断裂是否提供了一种颠覆性的方法来驾驭社会政治过渡的阈限状态和气候变化的感性挑战，从而建立一个重新想象政治可能性的生态意识空间。通过观众接受研究和生态电影与环保主义运动关系的案例研究，本文将评估中国生态电影将批评评论转化为社会干预的能力。

This dissertation will investigate Chinese ecocinema within the post-socialist context. It will examine how eco-filmmakers' aesthetic choices and political practices are shaped by government attitudes and polices towards environmentalism within Mainland China. By performing close textual analysis of ecocinema texts, it will question whether aesthetic rupture provides a subversive method to navigate the liminal state of socio-political transition and perceptual challenges of climate change, thus establishing an eco-conscious space for reimagining political possibility. By conducting audience reception studies and case studies exploring ecocinema's relationship to environmentalist movements, it will evaluate Chinese ecocinema's ability to translate critical commentary into social intervention.