Moulding the Socialist Subject: Cinema and Chinese Modernity (1949-1966)
- Submitting institution
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School of Oriental and African Studies
- Unit of assessment
- 34 - Communication, Cultural and Media Studies, Library and Information Management
- Output identifier
- 29940
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Brill
- ISBN
- 9789004423510
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- January
- Year of publication
- 2020
- URL
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https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004423527
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This monograph responds to a gap in the relatively new field of Chinese cinema studies. It is the first such study of the cinema of the People’s Republic of China during the Mao era (1949-1976). It offers a systemic exploration of the role cinema played in the Chinese Communist Party’s political project of shaping ideal socialist citizens from 1949 to 1966. Its six chapters are organised by genre, movie star culture, and exhibition practice and include close readings of both acknowledged classics and some relatively forgotten films. Each chapter provides an essential understanding of the genre or phenomenon in question.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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