Writing about Socialist Films from the Cultural Revolution and Beyond

Xie Jin (photo source: english.cntv.cn)

Review of Word Webs

Xie Jin (1923-2008), Stage Sisters, and the Complex Web of Cultural References and Criticisms

CCTV Documentary: Film director Xie Jin (2008, part three)

CCTV program: Xie Jin Retrospective (2008)

The Cultural Revolution and Beyond


Jiang Qing: Shanghai--Yan'an--Beijing

Lan Ping (Jiang Qing) Photo source: Wikipedia

 

Scenes of City Life (Starring Lan Ping, dir. Yuan Muzhi, 1935), video source: Youtube

Model Play Films and Three Prominences

The Morning Sun (a film and website about the Cultural Revolution)  

 

In the Heat of the Sun (dir. JIANG Wen, 1993), video source: Youtube 

From Class Struggle to Internal Struggle 

The Recovery Years 

Ideology and Subjectivity: Chunhua's questions


Film Terms and Topics for Analysis and Writing: 
Reconsidering Stage Sisters and Anticipating Woman Demon Human

Themes/thematic questions


Film and the Other Arts

Narrative, Characters, Point of View, Comparative Essays

MISE-EN-SCENE and (the illusion of) Realism

The theatrics of space as constructed for the camera

A Scene from Stage Sisters (photo source: asiasociety.org)

A Scene from Ren Gui Qing (Woman Demon Human) (photo source: showchina.org)