TY - BOOK ID - 46171736 TI - Chinese revolutionary cinema : propaganda, aesthetics and internationalism, 1949-1966 PY - 2019 SN - 9781788311908 PB - London I.B. Tauris DB - UniCat KW - Motion pictures in propaganda KW - Motion pictures KW - History KW - Political aspects. KW - Political aspects KW - China KW - S04/0910 KW - S04/0920 KW - S06/0900 KW - S17/0430 KW - S17/2000 KW - Moving-pictures in propaganda KW - Propaganda in motion pictures KW - Propaganda KW - Cinema KW - Feature films KW - Films KW - Movies KW - Moving-pictures KW - Audio-visual materials KW - Mass media KW - Performing arts KW - China: History--PRC: 1949 - 1958 KW - China: History--PRC: 1958 - 1966 KW - China: Politics and government--Political propaganda KW - China: Art and archaeology--Esthetics KW - China: Art and archaeology--Film KW - History and criticism UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:46171736 AB - Engaging with key films from the decade and a half between 1949 and '66, this book explores the aesthetic experiment of socialist cinema in China. In the years succeeding the Communist Revolution, the state produced a diversity of genres that functioned as propaganda for the newly established People's Republic. Breaking from past forms, revolutionary cinema adapted and revised Chinese literature for the screen, incorporated aspects of Hollywood narration and appropriated Soviet montage theory for its own means, as well as orchestrating a new, glamorous, socialist star culture. Chinese film periodicals were quick to project and disseminate the country's redefined self-image to both domestic and international domains as they helped to create an alternative vision of modernity and internationalism. ER -