Moulding the Socialist Subject: Cinema and Chinese Modernity (1949-1966)

Moulding the Socialist Subject: Cinema and Chinese Modernity (1949-1966)
ISBN-10
9004423516
ISBN-13
9789004423510
Category
Film genres
Language
English
Published
2020
Author
Xiaoning Lu

Description

In Moulding the Socialist Subject, Xiaoning Lu discusses how a diversity of film genres, movie star culture, and film exhibition practices contributed to the Chinese Communist Party's political project of shaping ideal socialist citizens in the early People's Republic.

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