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Cinematic Guerrillas - Propaganda, Projectionists, and Audiences in Socialist China

English · Hardback

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Cinematic Guerrillas is a media history of Chinese film exhibition and reception that offers fresh insights into the powers and limits of propaganda.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Revolutionary Spirit Mediumship
Part I: Projectionists as Media Infrastructure
1. Cinematic Nation-Building: Media Networks and Spiritual Battlegrounds
2. Mobile Projectionists and the Things They Carried
3. The Three Sisters Movie Team: Projecting Models, Model Projectionists, and Female Projectionists
4. The Cost of Spiritual Food: A Ritual Economy of Rural Cinema
Part II: Audiences as Creative Agents
5. The Hot Noise of Open-Air Cinema
6. Guerrilla Cinema and Guerrilla Reception
7. Transcultural Guerrillas: The Reception of Foreign Films in Socialist China
8. Poisonous Weeds and Censorship as Exorcism
Epilogue
Appendix: Interviews
Notes
Index

About the author

Jie Li is professor of East Asian languages and civilizations at Harvard University. Her books include Shanghai Homes: Palimpsests of Private Life (Columbia, 2014), Red Legacies in China: Cultural Afterlives of the Communist Revolution (2016), and Utopian Ruins: A Memorial Museum of the Mao Era (2020).

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Cinematic Guerrillas is a media history of Chinese film exhibition and reception that offers fresh insights into the powers and limits of propaganda.

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