Once Upon a Time in Shanghai

Book Details:  Paper over boardISBN-13: 9781942084747148 pages; 70 Black and White and Color Photographs12 x 10 inches$45 US; $65.50 CAN    Photographs by  Mark Parascandola Essay by Michael Berry   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.   Mark Parascandola is an award winning photographer based in DC. His book Once Upon a Time in Almería was published by Daylight in 2017 Michael Berry is a professor in the department of Asian languages and culture at UCLA