Once Upon a Time in Shanghai (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781942084747)

China, poised to become the world's largest film market, is home to an expansive state-supported movie and television industry. On an unparalleled scale, entire towns have been built around making movies. Given film censorship codes in China, period films provide a safe and familiar format to tell stories based around "official" narratives. The movie sets, rivaling real-world cities and monuments in their scale, have themselves become destinations for domestic and international tourists. Despite the fiction, they bear witness to a dynamic and changing China. Photographer Mark Parascandola, has spent five years photographing movie production sites and outdoor sets across China.

Author: Mark Parascandola
ISBN-10: 1942084749
ISBN-13: 9781942084747
Publisher: Daylight Books
Language: English
Published: 11/19/2019
Pages: 148
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.60lbs
Size: 10.20h x 12.20w x 0.70d