Postsocialist Cinema in Post-Mao China: The Cultural Revolution After the Cultural Revolution

Chris Berry

Routledge, 2004 - History - 255 pages

This book argues that the fundamental shift in Chinese Cinema away from Socialism and towards Post-Socialism can be located earlier than the emergence of the "Fifth Generation" in the mid-eighties when it is usually assumed to have occured. By close analysis of films from the 1949-1976 Maoist era in comparison with 1976-81 films representing the Cultural Revolution, it demonstrates that the latter already breaks away from Socialism.

About the author

Chris Berry is Lecturer in Cinema Studies at La Trobe University in Melbourne. He worked in the Chinese film industry in Beijing from 1985 to 1988.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Postsocialist Cinema in Post-Mao China: The Cultural Revolution After the Cultural Revolution; East Asia; East Asia, history, politics, sociology, culture
• Author: Chris Berry
• Edition: illustrated, reprint, annotated
• Publisher: Routledge, 2004
• ISBN: 0415947863, 9780415947862
• Length: 255 pages
• Subjects: History / Asia / China; Performing Arts / Film & Video / General; Performing Arts / Film & Video / History & Criticism