Classic Chinese Animated Film and Ideology

ISBN-13: 9781032197647 / Twarda / 2023 / 184 str.

Olga Bobrowska

Opis

This book presents a contextualized overview of the history of Chinese animated film, pointing out the most influential self-definitions of Chinese culture employed in animation art of Mao Zedong’s rule (1949–1976). 

Spis treści

Introduction. 1. Contents, Sources, and Methodological Premises. 2. Self-Images of Chinese Animation and Their Foreign Reception. 3. Post-Socialism, or the World After Mao. 4. Emancipatory Ideology with Chinese Characteristics. 5.  Animation After Cultural Revolution: “We could even begin to dance again at that time. In our studio!”. Chapter 1: Nationalization of Animation. 1.1 The Category of Minzu in Chinese Political Thought. Cultural Studies Perspective. 1.2 Theorizing Animated Minzu. 1.3 Te Wei: The Icon of the National Animation. 1.4 Wash-and-ink Painting Animation (shuimo donghua): The Crown Jewels of Minzu Style. 1.5 Minzu Style in the 1980s. Chapter 2: Animation Reformed. 2.1 Avant-garde and Animation. The Case of Picasso and His Bull (1988). 2.2 The Modernization of Animated Film Language: Theory. 2.3 Reformed Animation as an Expression of Residual Modernism. 2.4 Animated Film Modernization in Practice: Films of A Da. 2.5 Reformed Animation: Authentic, Authorial, and for Adult Audiences. Chapter 3: Sino-European Opening-Up in the Area of Art-House Animation. 3.1 Chinese Animation at the International Festivals during the Maoist Era. 3.2 Absolute Beginners: First Attempts in Sino-European Opening-Up. 3.3 Annecy Festival: Dynamics of Dialogue. 3.3.1 Annecy 1983. 3.3.2 Annecy 1985. 3.3.3 Annecy 2017. 3.4 Animafest Zagreb: Intercultural Exchange In Action. 3.4.1 Animafest Zagreb 1978. 3.4.2 Animafest Zagreb 1980. 3.4.3 Animafest Zagreb 1982. 3.4.4 Animafest Zagreb 1984. 3.4.5 Animafest Zagreb 1986. 3.4.6 Animafest Zagreb 1988. 

O autorze

 Olga Bobrowska PhD, is an animated film scholar; Associate Professor at the Institute of Journalism and Political Sciences of the Pedagogical University of Krakow (Poland); co-founder and festival director of StopTrik International Film Festival (Maribor, Slovenia / Łódź, Poland).