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03441aam a2200433 i 4500 001 375503CEE67F11EE94C7D61345ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240320010038 008 230422s2023 nyua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2023008240 020 $a 0231206275 020 $a 9780231206273 020 $a 0231206267 020 $a 9780231206266 035 $a (OCoLC)1378704108 040 $a LBSOR $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d UKMGB $d OCLCO $d OCLCQ $d PMC $d ERASA $d YDX $d CRU $d NUI $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a a-cc--- 050 00 $a PN1993.5.C4 $b L4694 2023 082 00 $a 791.430951 $2 23/eng/20230607 100 1 $a Li, Jie, $d 1979- $e author. 245 10 $a Cinematic guerrillas : $b propaganda, projectionists, and audiences in socialist China / $c Jie Li. 264 1 $a New York : $b Columbia University Press, $c [2023] 300 $a xiii, 341 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 520 $a "What was cinema in socialist China? How did mass media enchant and mobilize the revolutionary masses? Cinematic Guerrillas is a cultural history of Maoist film exhibition, reception, and audiences that offers fresh insights into the "what," "when," "where," and "who" of world cinema. Moving beyond textual analysis and production histories, this book examines the media networks and environments, discourses and practices, experiences and memories of film projectionists and their grassroots audiences from the 1940s to the 1980s. Drawing on historical archives, memoirs, interviews, and ethnographic fieldwork spanning multiple provinces, the study of "cinematic guerrillas" reconsiders Chinese propaganda in terms of mobile, heterogeneous and improvisational practices as well as its clandestine pleasures and unintended effects at the grassroots. Paying attention to cinema's spatial, material, bodily, and ritualistic dimensions, this book reconceptualizes audiovisual propaganda media in terms of their "revolutionary spirit mediumship," which turned audiences into congregations, contributed to the Mao "cult," converted skeptics of utopian visions, and exorcized class enemies"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Introduction : revolutionary spirit mediumship -- Cinematic nation-building : media networks and spiritual battlegrounds -- Mobile projectionists and the things they carried -- The three sisters movie team : projecting models, model projectionists, and female projectionists -- The cost of spiritual food : a ritual economy of rural cinema -- The hot noise of open-air cinema -- Guerrilla cinema and guerrilla reception -- Transcultural guerrillas : the reception of foreign films in socialist China -- Poisonous weeds and censorship as exorcism -- Epilogue. 648 7 $a 1900-1999 $2 fast 650 0 $a Motion pictures $z China $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Motion pictures $x Political aspects $z China. 650 0 $a History. 650 7 $a Motion pictures $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01027285 650 7 $a Motion pictures $x Political aspects $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01027353 651 7 $a China $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01206073 655 7 $a History $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 776 08 $i Online version: $a Li, Jie, 1979- $t Cinematic guerrillas $d New York : Columbia University Press, [2023] $z 9780231556392 $w (DLC) 2023008241 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20240320011003.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=375503CEE67F11EE94C7D61345ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search