On December 18, 2023, Professor Yang Xinlei's academic monograph "Rushing Thoughts: The Support and Promotion of Chinese Excellent Traditional Culture to Film and Television Media" was officially published by Nanjing University Press, 500,000 words, 526 pages, ISBN 978-7-305-24947-1, CIP (2023) No. 196419, Chinese simplified Chinese, 1 16 folio, paperback, first printing of 3,000 copies, public distribution at home and abroad.
"Rushing Thoughts" aims to improve the strong radiation of Chinese excellent traditional culture to movies and TV dramas, emphasizing that the creation and criticism of film and television dramas must be rooted in profound traditional heritage, and the ideological height of film and television works must rely on Chinese culture. The book is divided into two parts: the upper part is called "Film and Television Survey of Chinese Studies," and the lower part is called "Images Outside the Images Between Spaces." The upper part includes the author's essays on the deep relationship between film and television and Chinese culture, with a total of 120 articles. The author has a solid foundation in "primary school", and has been engaged in film and television theory and practice all year round, so he can find errors in the subtitles of many TV dramas, and identify the flaws of some film and television works, so he will be investigated and executed. Then, the author dispelled some famous works and monuments related to film and television, and explored the context. The upper edition does not seek a broad body and week, only a glimpse of the leopard, the rain runs the yellow sand, and many major propositions in the study of Chinese culture are written by the author, "resignation and purpose, near and far" (Liu Xian's "Wenxin Carving Dragon, Zongjing"). Reading it, the heaviness of Chinese culture is awe-inspiring, and the paleness of film and television is awe-inspiring. The second part has a total of 16 articles**, trying to analyze problems in the integration of art and technology, the penetration of humanities and nature, break through the trap of film criticism and interpretation, and lead film and television research into an interdisciplinary and multi-dimensional. The following part pays attention to interdisciplinarity, cross-border connection, dramatic originality, painstaking efforts, and unpretentiousness, condensing the author's mind and intelligence, and showing the commutability of film and television media, so as to "not be the same, not different, different paths, the same end, comb and disagree together" (Liu Dajun's words). This book mainly focuses on drama, film and television and journalism and communication, including film studies, radio and television arts, communication, etc., which can be used as a reference for teachers and students majoring in humanities and social sciences in colleges and universities at all levels across the country, and is a rare mentor and friend for undergraduates and graduate students in film and television media. Professor Yang Xinlei has read a lot of films, dabbled in knowledge, thought for thousands of years, and traveled thousands of times, which is enough to enable scholars to increase their knowledge and broaden their horizonsIt can also make the audience and fans cultivate their temperament and be bright and pleasant.
The book "Rushing Thoughts" is prefaced by two professors of the ** Party School of the Communist Party of China and senior professors of the School of Cinematic Arts of the University of Southern California, recommended by experts of the Drama and Film and Television Teaching Steering Committee of Colleges and Universities of the Ministry of Education, and recommended by the National Steering Committee for Graduate Education of Master of Fine Arts.
It is reported that Nanjing University Press directly belongs to the "985 211 double first-class" university - Nanjing University, which has long adhered to the principle of high-level, high-grade and high-quality editing and review, and is recognized as an excellent academic publishing institution, and is one of the designated publishing houses for the national social science ** later funding project, which requires the repetition rate of the manuscript to be no higher than 12%, and Yang Xinlei's book is only 591%, extremely original. It is also reported that "Rushing Thoughts" is Professor Yang Xinlei's seventh academic monograph, and the eighth is an English monograph entitled "Phenomenological Intertextualities in Architecture and Image", with 200,000 words, which is planned to be published by MIT Press in the United States by 2027.
Yang Xinlei's "Rushing Thoughts" was funded and published by the High-level Talent Research Start-up Project of Sichuan University of Arts and Sciences.
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