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

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).

Summary

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

Product details

• Authors: Jie Li, Jie (Harvard University) Li
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.12.2023
• EAN: 9780231206266
• ISBN: 978-0-231-20626-6
• No. of pages: 360
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; China, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom, 20th Century, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, Films, cinema, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies, Left-of-centre democratic ideologies, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General, Political control and freedoms, Political Control & Freedoms, perfominng arts; history