Chinese Animated Film and Ideology, 1940s-1970s: Fighting Puppets

ISBN-13: 9781032148892 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 194 str.

Olga Bobrowska

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Acknowledgments. INTRODUCTION. 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. Chapter 1.2 Unity in Resistance: Wanderings of Sanmao by Zhang Chaoqun. 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. Chapter 2.2 "Bombard the Headquarters": The Little 8th Route Army. FINAL NOTES. GLOSSARY. INDEX.