| Description |
1 online resource (197 p.) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Visions of History in Contemporary Chinese Animation -- Initial Premises -- Maoist China's Cultural History: A Brief Overview -- Observing Chinese Animation from the Distance -- English-Language Narratives of Chinese Animation History14 -- Minzu Style: a Condensed View -- The Founding Myth -- Notes -- References -- Part I Echoes of the National Salvation Movement, 1940s-1950s -- Chapter 1.1 Denouncing Chiang Kai-shek: The Emperor's Dream by Chen Bo'er |
|
1.1.1 Unlikely Pioneers -- 1.1.2 Hopeless Dreams of the Bygone Era -- 1.1.3 'Convenient Truths' at the Stage of New Democracy -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 1.2 Unity in Resistance: Wanderings of Sanmao by Zhang Chaoqun -- 1.2.1 Sanmao's Story -- 1.2.2 Animated Variant of Fictional Realism -- 1.2.3 Transcultural Perspective on Chinese Animation's Roots -- 1.2.4 Visual Language of the National Salvation Movement -- 1.2.5 Searching for Unity, Finding Nostalgia -- Notes -- References -- Part II Calls of the Continuous Revolution, 1960s-1970s: Films of You Lei |
|
Chapter 2.1 "To Live is to Serve the People": Rooster Crows at Midnight -- 2.1.1 The Revisionists and the Radicals -- 2.1.2 You Lei: A Dogmatic Animator -- 2.1.3 Constructing History -- 2.1.4 Ideological Expressiveness: Images-Ideas -- 2.1.5 Revolutionary Pedagogics -- 2.1.6 Rooster Crows at Midnight Revisited -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 2.2 "Bombard the Headquarters": The Little 8th Route Army -- 2.2.1 Ideology and Arts of the Cultural Revolution -- 2.2.2 SAFS during the Cultural Revolution Period -- 2.2.3 The Little 8th Route Army: A Twofold Plotline -- 2.2.4 The Concept of Model Art |
|
2.2.5 The (In)Animated Device of Ideological Emphasis -- 2.2.6 Ideological Emphasis Deprived of Emotions -- 2.2.7 The 'Three Prominences' Principle in You Lei's Vocabulary -- 2.2.8 Red Guards: The Ruthless Heroes of the Revolution -- Notes -- References -- Final Notes -- Glossary -- Index |
| Summary |
This book examines animated propaganda produced in mainland China in the 1940s to 1970s. The analyses of four puppet films demonstrate how animation and Maoist doctrine became tightly but dynamically entangled |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
Mao, Zedong, 1893-1976
|
|
Motion pictures -- Political aspects -- China
|
|
Motion pictures in propaganda -- China
|
| Form |
Electronic book
|
| ISBN |
9781000824261 |
|
1000824268 |
|
