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Xing huo = Spark / director, Hu Jie.
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- Chinese
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Xing huo.
- Underground newspapers--China--History--20th century.
- Underground newspapers.
- Famines.
- History.
- China--History--Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976--Personal narratives.
- China.
- China--Politics and government--1949-1976.
- Politics and government.
- Famines--China--History--20th century.
- Genre:
- Personal narratives.
- Documentary films.
- Nonfiction films.
- Feature films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 streaming video file (114 min.) : digital, sound, color
- polychrome
- Other Title:
- English title: Spark
- Place of Publication:
- [Brooklyn, New York] : [Distributed by] dGenerate Films, [2019]
- Language Note:
- In Mandarin Chinese with English subtitles.
- System Details:
- System requirements: Firefox 4 and up; Safari 5.0 and up; Chrome version 21 and up; Internet Explorer 8 and up; Flash or HTML5 player.
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- video file
- Summary:
- Probably China's most important unofficial historian-filmmaker, Hu Jie documents with his camera episodes that Chinese official history, for now, ignores. Spark was an underground magazine published in 1960 by four young intellectuals who wanted to expose the devastating famine caused by Mao's Great Leap Forward, a horrendous period of national suffering that is still unmentioned in China's history textbooks today. This is filmmaking as urgent historical investigation: with a shoestring budget Hu combines years of research, and a knack for getting people to talk without fear about the most taboo subjects in China's recent past. His alternative oral history approach knits together courageous and frequently moving interviews with the magazine's surviving editor, supporters, and readers, who were ready to sacrifice themselves to alert their countrymen to unprecedented disaster.
- Credits:
- Photographer/editor, Hu Jie ; music, Johannes Brahms.
- Notes:
- Title from title frames.
- Description based on online resource; title from title frames (Docuseek2, viewed May 31, 2019).
- Publisher Number:
- df-spark Docuseek2
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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