Fragmented memories and screening nostalgia for the Cultural Revolution / Jing Meng.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Meng, Jing, author.

Series:

Hong Kong scholarship online.

Hong Kong scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--China--History--20th century.

Motion pictures.

China--In motion pictures.

China.

China--On television.

China--History--Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976--Motion pictures and the revolution.

China--History--Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976--Television and the revolution.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 online resource)

Place of Publication:

Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, 2021.

Summary:

This title asserts that films and TV dramas about the Cultural Revolution made after China's accession to the WTO in 2001 tend to represent personal memories in a markedly sentimental, nostalgic, and fragmented manner. This new trend is a significant departure from earlier films about the subject, which are generally interpreted as national allegories, not private expressions of grief, regret or other personal feelings.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1. Janus-Faced Nostalgia: Moral Critique, Sentimentalism, and Gender

2. Post-revolution Nostalgia: Memory as Performance

3. Beyond Nostalgia: Agency and Auteuristic Expressivity in Fragmented Memories

4. Post-trauma Narrative: Fragmented Past Flows into the Present

5. A Collective ‘I’ and Its Contending Readings: Personal Memories in Sent-Down Youth

6. Conclusion: Contingent Memories, Contested Modernities

Filmography

Bibliography

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2020.

Includes bibliographical references and filmography.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on April 19, 2021).

ISBN:

9789888053490

9888053493

OCLC:

1200197187