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Staging Chinese Revolution : = theater, film, and the afterlives of propaganda /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Staging Chinese Revolution :/ Xiaomei Chen
Reminder of title:	theater, film, and the afterlives of propaganda /
Author:	Chen, Xiaomei,
Description:	1 online resource (xii, 363 pages) :illustrations :
Subject:	Theater - Political aspects - 20th century - China -
Subject:	China -
Online resource:	http://portal.igpublish.com/iglibrary/search/COLB0002339.html
ISBN:	9780231541619

Staging Chinese Revolution : = theater, film, and the afterlives of propaganda /
Chen, Xiaomei,1954-

Staging Chinese Revolution :theater, film, and the afterlives of propaganda /Xiaomei Chen - 1 online resource (xii, 363 pages) :illustrations

Includes bibliographical references and index

Introduction: Propaganda performance, history, and landscape -- The place of Chen Duxiu: political theater, dramatic history, and the question of representation -- Returning a people's hero: a "new" legacy in the plays of Mao -- Staging Deng Xiaoping: the "incorrigible capitalist roader" -- Performing the "red classics" : three revolutionary music-and-dance epics and their peaceful restorations -- Epilogue: Where are the "founding mothers"?

Staging Chinese Revolution surveys fifty years of theatrical propaganda performances in China, revealing a dynamic, commercial capacity in works often dismissed as artifacts of censorship. Spanning the 1960s through the 2010s, Xiaomei Chen reads films, plays, operas, and television shows from an interdisciplinary and comparative perspective, demonstrating how, in a socialist state with capitalist characteristics, propaganda performance turns biographies, memoirs, and war stories into mainstream ideological commodities, legitimizing the state and its right to rule. Analyzing propaganda performance also brings contradictions and inconsistencies to light that throw common understandings about propaganda's purpose into question

ISBN: 9780231541619

LCCN: 2016002640Subjects--Topical Terms:

1174832
Theater
--Political aspects--China--20th centurySubjects--Geographical Terms:

714969
China

LC Class. No.: DS777.549

Dewey Class. No.: 951.05072

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