Cinema and Nation-State in the PRC

YUAN Muzhi (Photo Source: Wikimedia)

WU Yinxian (Photo Source: www.ionly.com.cn)

Three Phases

Nationalization

p190 Bureaucracy

p192 Thematic

 

The White-Haired Girl (1950) Video Source: Youtube

 p194 Toll on private studios: The Life of Wu Xun

The Shanghai and Yan'an Models

Toward Socialist Realism

p 202 Socialist Realism

The Song of Youth (1959)

p205 Hundred Flowers harvest

New Year's Sacrifice (1957)

p208 Genre Experiments

p212 Socialist Cinema in perspective

p 214-6 Stage Sisters (1964) and complexity 

Cultural Revolution and Beyond