Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 274 Seiten)
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Illustrationen
ISBN:
9781788318914
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9781786734341
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9781786724342
Series Statement:
International library of the moving image 48
Content:
"Engaging with fiction films devoted to heroic tales from the decade and a half between 1949 and 1966, this book reconceives state propaganda as aesthetic experiments that not only radically transformed acting, cinematography and screenwriting in socialist China, but also articulated a new socialist film theory and criticism. Rooted in the interwar avant-garde and commercial cinema, Chinese revolutionary cinema, as a state cinema for the newly established People's Republic, adapted Chinese literature for the screen, incorporated Hollywood narration, appropriated Soviet montage theory and orchestrated a new, glamorous, socialist star culture. In the wake of decolonisation, Chinese film journals were quick to project and disseminate the country's redefined self-image to Asia, Africa and Latin America as they helped to create an alternative vision of modernity and internationalism. Revealing the historical contingency of the term 'propaganda', Chan uncovers the visual, aural, kinaesthetic, sexual and ideological dynamics that gave rise to a new aesthetic of revolutionary heroism in world cinema. Based on extensive archival research, this book's focus on the distinctive rhetoric of post-war socialist China will be of value to East Asian Cinema scholars, Chinese Studies academics and those interested in the history of twentieth-century socialist culture."--Bloomsbury Publishing
Content:
Introduction 1 -- 1 Propaganda and Film Aesthetics 23 2 Literature on Screen: Recasting Classical Hollywood Narration in Family Melodrama 54 3 Translating Soviet Montage 87 4 Socialist Glamour: The Socialist Star Craze, Stanislavski's System and Cinematic Iconography of the Gaze 119 5 Visions of Internationalism in Chinese Film Journals 147 -- Conclusion 173 -- Notes 180 Glossary 215 Filmography 222 Bibliography 225 Index 237
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-236) and index -- Filmography: pages 222-224
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 978-1-78831-190-8
Language:
English
Subjects:
General works
Keywords:
China
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Film
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Propaganda
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Internationalismus
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Geschichte 1949-1966
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China
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Film
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Propaganda
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Ästhetik
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Geschichte 1949-1966
DOI:
10.5040/9781788318914
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