Postsocialist Cinema in Post-Mao China
The Cultural Revolution after the Cultural Revolution
By Chris Berry
Series: East Asia: History, Politics, Sociology and Culture
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- ISBN: 978-0-415-94786-2
- Binding: Hardback (also available in Paperback)
- Published by: Routledge
- Publication Date: 06/29/2004
- Pages: 272
- Trim Size: 6 x 9
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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.