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Author Gu, Zhun, author

Title Screen media and the construction of nostalgia in post-Socialist China / Zhun Gu
Published Singapore : Palgrave Macmillan, [2023]
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Description 1 online resource (ix, 240 pages)
Series Contemporary East Asian visual cultures, societies and politics, 2662-771X
Contemporary East Asian visual cultures, societies and politics. 2662-771X
Contents Introduction -- Chapter 1: Nostalgia and Guilt in "Educated Youth" Films: Xie Fei's A Mongolian Tale (1995) and Huo Jianqi's Nuan (2003) -- Chapter 2: Nostalgia for a Communal Lifestyle in Urban Films: Shower (1999) and 24 City (2008) -- Chapter 3: An Ahistorical Nostalgia on Youth Screen: So Young (2013), With You (2016) and Better Days (2019) -- Chapter 4: Rhetoric of Nostalgia from the Harmonious Society to the Community of Shared Future -- Conclusion
Summary This book traces the cultural transformation of nostalgia on the Chinese screen over the past three decades. It explores how filmmakers from different generations have engaged politically with China's rapidly changing post-socialist society as it has been formed through three mutually constitutive frameworks: political discourse, popular culture and state-led media commercialisation. The book offers a new, critical model for understanding relationships between filmmakers, industry and the State. Zhun Gu was awarded a Ph.D. by the University of Nottingham in December 2019 and is now a research assistant working at Fudan University. His research focuses on memory studies and intercultural communication in Chinese screen media
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed February 7, 2023)
Subject Nostalgia -- China
Mass media -- Social aspects -- China
Motion pictures, Chinese.
Television programs -- China
Mass media -- Social aspects
Motion pictures, Chinese
Nostalgia
Television programs
China
Genre/Form Electronic books
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789811974946
9811974942