Berry Postsocialist Cinema in Post-Mao China

The Cultural Revolution after the Cultural Revolution
Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-1-135-93647-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 272 Seiten

Reihe: East Asia: History, Politics, Sociology and Culture

This book argues that the fundamental shift in Chinese Cinema away from Socialism and towards Post-Socialism can be located earlier than the emergence of the "Fifth Generation" in the mid-eighties when it is usually assumed to have occured. By close analysis of films from the 1949-1976 Maoist era in comparison with 1976-81 films representing the Cultural Revolution, it demonstrates that the latter already breaks away from Socialism.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Berry, Chris

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmtheorie, Filmanalyse
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Marxismus, Kommunismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: Toward a Postsocialist Cinema?
Review of Literature
Changing China
Cinema and Society
Film and History
2. Writing on Blank Paper: The Classical Cinema before 1976 as a Didactic Paradigm
Industry and Social Institution
Sample Texts
Characters
Narrative
Spectator Positioning and Mise-en-Scene
A. Relays
B. Mirroring
C. Heightened Engagement
D. Epistemological Mastery
3. Entering Forbidden Zones and Exposing Wounds: Rewriting Socialist History
The Initial Response: Continuity and Containment
A. State and Party Politics
B. Policy and Critcism in Literature and the Arts
C. Film Production
Deng Xiaoping's Power Struggle: Extending the Critique
A. State and Party Politics
B. Policy and Critcism in Literature and the Arts
C. Film Production
Deng Consolidates Power: Beyond the "Cultural Revolution"
A. State and Party Politics
B. Policy and Critcism in Literature and the Arts
C. Film Production
4. Postsocialism and the Decline of the Hero
Complexity
Class Background and Party Affiliation
Reversal or Transformation of Roles?
5. A Family Affiar: Separation and Subjectivity
The Incidence of Romantic Love
Literary Comparisons
Romantic Love, the Family, and the Party
Memory, Subjectivity and Community
The Peer Group and Chinese Counterculture
6. Ending it All: Bitter Love
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The Importance of Endings
Socialist Tragedies and Obligatory Happy Endings
"Let the Audience Decide"
Filmography
Bibliography
Appendices