{"product_id":"ungovernable-media-9780520437999","title":"Ungovernable Media","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the 1930s and 1940s, educators working with the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) turned to cinema as a means of educating the nation yet found that film was far from a nimble pedagogical aid. This\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eis the first study of the Chinese Educational Film Movement, the name given to their efforts. Considering the work of institutions often overlooked in Chinese film historiography, including mass education centers and missionary universities, this book chronicles how educators grappled with an unwieldy cinematic apparatus entangled with Euro-American and Japanese colonial projects. To describe this phenomenon, Hongwei Thorn Chen proposes the concept of \u003ci\u003emedia failure—\u003c\/i\u003ethat is, when media fail to do what they are supposed to do. While media failure mapped China’s diminutive place in the development of a globalized useful cinema regime, \u003ci\u003eUngovernable Media\u003c\/i\u003e shows that Chinese film users also embraced the language of failure to make sense of the predicaments of nation building in colonial modernity, ultimately aligning failure with the story of experiment told by the Chinese state. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hongwei Thorn Chen","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":68324451975419,"sku":"9780520437999","price":95.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/CoreSourceHub_5706caaa-8890-4139-b319-aee3195a3bbc.jpg?v=1792071982","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/ungovernable-media-9780520437999","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}