CULS30002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Beijing Bastards, Class Conflict, Xiao Wu
17 Apr 2017
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Globalisation and its discontents in china"s sixth generation cinema. Consider the conditions that exist for filmmakers, media and cultural workers in contemporary china. Consider what independent" filmmaking means in chinese context. The ways in which 6th gen films reflect the experience of rapid but uneven globalisation in post-socialist china. Lucid term more vague than the fifth generation. Not so much common style but common context in which they began to work. Key features of china"s transformation since the early 1990s. Ruling party made more deliberate decisions to shape chinese culture. Greater emphasis on shaping cultural context produced through official channels than in. Blamed liberalisation of culture for protests in 1989. Greater emphasis in education on need for singly ruling party. Previous emphasis on class struggle removed and replaced by emphasis on. But wider range of programming on tv driven by marketization and commercialisation of economy. 1990s beginning of tumultuous set of transformations.
