CULS30002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Nomic, Art Film, Deng Xiaoping
29 Mar 2017
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In west, many of these filmmakers still dominate the idea of what chinese cinema is. 5th gen as a break with cinema of maoist era. Filmmakers reimagined the nature of the chinese nation. Shanghai cinema of 1930s, socialist realist cinema of 1950s 60s. These two different cinemas reflected on & dramatized experience of chinese modernity. Shanghai cinema was product of commercially produced, privately owned film studios. Shanghai films reflected local leftist and hollywood influences. Socialist cinema embodied new communist state"s desire to forge an alternative path to modernisation. Mao wanted to cleanse party of generation who had fought to civil war and come to power peers. Almost the only feature films made were film versions of the eight model plays". Became too comfortable, bureaucratic and too much like a ruling class. Claim back some of the power he had lost during great leap forward (early. Ended abruptly in 1966 mao launched cultural revolution.
