Postsocialist cinema in post-Mao China
Subtitle: the cultural revolution after the Cultural Revolution
By: Chris Berry.
Series: East Asia : history, politics, sociology, culture; East Asia (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
Subjects: Motion pictures -- China -- History; Motion pictures -- Political aspects -- China
Description: "This book seeks to determine whether the cycle of films produced after the Fall of the Gang of Four in the People's Republic of China in 1976 and representing events during the Cultural Revolution decade of 1966 to 1976 constitutes a major break with the classical mainland Chinese cinema that had been dominant in that country after 1949. It is widely acknowledged in scholarship about China that Chinese society and culture now is qualitatively different from the heyday of socialism, both in terms of a decline in central control and loss of faith in the socialist vision. Chris Berry understands this new culture as postsocialist, and therefore asks if these films constitute the earliest sustained manifestations of postsocialist cinema"--Publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-205) and index.
Filmography: p. (207-208).