Moulding the Socialist Subject
Cinema and Chinese Modernity (1949-1966)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19907649 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Xiaoning Lu (0000-0002-5600-4866, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Publication date | 2020-01-30 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Moulding the Socialist Subject (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Brill (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1163/9789004423527 |
| OpenAlex | W2913420652 |
| ISBN | 9789004423527 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
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
Aesthetics · Agency (philosophy) · Art · Communism · Entertainment · Exhibition · Movie theater · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Spectacle · Subject (documents) · Visual arts · Chinese history and philosophy · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics · Law · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
Multiplicities of Socialist Spaces
Locating Chinese screens
Wu Xun , Song Jingshi and Lin Zexu
Trading devil Fish and Monkey kings
Lü Ban’s Comedies, Transnational Film Auteurism, and Comedic Modernism in Early Socialist China
Speed politics and socialist contradictions in Maoist documentary cinema
From “Mystification” to “Massification”
The Reincarnation of the Socialist Model Worker
Prospecting a Socialist Oil Field
| Citations per year | 1.8 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Highly cited | No |