Postsocialist cinema in post-Mao China: the cultural revolution after the Cultural Revolution
In: East Asia : history, politics, sociology, culture
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