Extras (film) explained
| Extras |
| Director: | Zhu Chuanming |
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| Country: | China |
| Language: | Chinese |
Extras is a 2001 fly on the wall Chinese documentary film by director Zhu Chuanming.[1] [2] The documentary has been seen as tinged with social criticism in its observation of the lives and dreams of China's poorly paid film extras.[3]
Notes and References
- Qi Wang Writing Against Oblivion: Personal Filmmaking from the Forsaken ... 2008 - Page 202 "Valerie Jaffee approaches three documentaries: Wu Wenguang's Jiang Hu/Life on the Road, Zhu Chuanming's Qunzhong yanyuan/Extras, and Zheng Dasheng's DV China through a rather peculiar angle."
- Yingjin Zhang A Companion to Chinese Cinema 2012 - Page 316 "Representative Chinese documentaries in the observational mode include: Before the Flood (2003), Crazy English (Zhang Yuan, 2000), Dream Walking (Huang Wenhai, 2006), Extras (Zhu Chuanming, 2002), Floating (Huang Weikai, 2005), ..."
- Paul G.. Pickowicz, Yingjin Zhang From underground to independent: alternative film culture in contemporary China 2006 Page 95 "All the subversion inherent in the film Extras, and in the very existence of these extras themselves, is summed up nicely in that incident: these people encroach upon the glory of a popular culture that is perhaps the most powerful authority in .."
