Abstract
This chapter delineates the impact of film censorship and Chinese (PRC) cultural politics in screening modern China in the throes of the Cultural Revolution. Focusing on the geopolitical phenomena and transnational networks of Hong Kong, China, Europe, and America (Hollywood), it probes how Cold War cultural tactics and censorial measures affected the production, exhibition, circulation, and reception of transnational cinema on Maoist China at the peak of the Cultural Revolution. It examines how implicit governmental and explicit sociopolitical censorships got in the way of the shooting and production of The Chairman (1969) in Asia, a Hollywood-produced anti-Communist movie. It then turns to Michelangelo Antonioni’s documentary Chung Kuo: Cina (1972) that was banned in 1974 by the Chinese government amidst the geopolitics of the Cold War.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | The Palgrave Handbook of Asian Cinema |
Editors | Aaron Han Joon Magnan-Park, Gina Marchetti, See Kam Tan |
Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
Pages | 307–327 |
Number of pages | 21 |
Edition | 1st |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781349958221 |
ISBN (Print) | 9781349958214, 9781349959808 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 4 Nov 2018 |
User-Defined Keywords
- Cold War
- Espionage
- Censorship
- Cultural Revolution
- James Bond
- Michelangelo Antonioni
- Transnational cinema
- Maoism