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Moulding the socialist subject : cinema and Chinese modernity (1949-1966)
- Title
- Moulding the socialist subject : cinema and Chinese modernity (1949-1966) / by Xiaoning Lu.
- Author
- Lu, Xiaoning, 1975-
- Publication
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2020]
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- Description
- x, 200 pages; 25 cm.
- Summary
- "What role did cinema play in the Chinese Communist Party's political project of shaping ideal socialist citizens in the early People's Republic? In Moulding the Socialist Subject, Xiaoning Lu deploys case studies from popular film genres, movie star culture and rural film exhibition practices to argue that Chinese cinema in 1949-1966, at once an important political instrument, an enjoyable yet instructive form of entertainment, and a specific manifestation of the socialist society of the spectacle, was an everyday site where the moulding of the new socialist person unfolded. While painting a broad picture of Chinese socialist cinema, Lu credits the human agency of film professionals, whose self-reflexivity and individual adaptability played an intrinsic role in the Party's political project"--
- Series Statement
- Ideas, history, and modern China, 1875-9394 ; volume 22
- Uniform Title
- Ideas, history, and modern China ; v. 22.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [169]-188), filmography (pages [189]-194) and index.
- Call Number
- MFL 21-1154
- ISBN
- 9789004423510
- 9004423516
- 9789004423527 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2019055386
- OCLC
- 1127662297
- Author
- Lu, Xiaoning, 1975- author.
- Title
- Moulding the socialist subject : cinema and Chinese modernity (1949-1966) / by Xiaoning Lu.
- Publisher
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2020]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Ideas, history, and modern China, 1875-9394 ; volume 22Ideas, history, and modern China ; v. 22.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [169]-188), filmography (pages [189]-194) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Other Form:
- Online version: LU, Xiaoning, Moulding the socialist subject Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2020. 9789004423527 (DLC) 2019055387
- Research Call Number
- MFL 21-1154