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From May Fourth to June Fourth: Fiction and Film in Twentieth-Century China Fiction and Film in Twentieth-Century China by Ellen Widmer (editor); David Der-wei Wang (editor) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is From May Fourth to June Fourth: Fiction and Film in Twentieth-Century China Fiction and Film in Twentieth-Century China about?
What do the Chinese literature and film inspired by the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) have in common with the Chinese literature and film of the May Fourth movement (1918-1930)? This new book demonstrates that these two periods of the highest literary and cinematic creativity in twentieth-century China share several aims: to liberate these narrative arts from previous aesthetic orthodoxies, to draw on foreign sources for inspiration, and to free individuals from social conformity. Although these consistencies seem readily apparent, with a sharper focus the distinguished contributors to this volume reveal that in many ways discontinuity, not continuity, prevails. Their analysis illuminates the powerful meeting place of language, imagery, and narrative with politics, history, and ideology in twentieth-century China. Drawing on a wide range of methodologies, from formal analysis to feminist criticism, from deconstruction to cultural critique, the authors demonstrate that the scholarship of modern Chinese literature and film has become integral to contemporary critical discourse. They respond to Eurocentric theories, but their ultimate concern is literature and film in China's unique
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- Author
- Ellen Widmer (editor); David Der-wei Wang (editor)
- Publisher
- Penn State University Press
- Published
- 2009
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780674325012
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Science, History, Literary Fiction
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