Young Rebels in Contemporary Chinese Cinema
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- Language:English(Translation Services Available)
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- Pages:232
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Review
“Young Rebels in Contemporary Chinese Cinema is thoroughly researched and carefully written, examining the early generations of Chinese filmmaking to establish a firm historical foundation from which the argument about the recent rebel films grows. Zhou’s comprehensive commentary on many dozens of films is erudite and precise, and brings a knowledgeable insight to these important cultural products that many viewers may not know and likely have not seen. This book will have a most valuable impact on the expanding field of youth film studies.” —Timothy Shary, Associate Professor of Screen Studies, Clark University, author of Generation Multiplex: The Image of Youth in Contemporary American Cinema
“Zhou Xuelin renders vivid a heretofore neglected spectrum of Mainland cinema for the interdisciplinary areas of popular culture, media and society. His critical survey of social rebel films of post-Mao China characterised by increasing consumerism and individualism offers tremendous insights to the ‘midnight children’ of the Cultural Revolution who in their youth would live politically incorrect lives variously as superfluous heroes, disaffected urbanites, rock ‘n’ roll kids and earnest entrepreneurs. His study serves a timely volley at the current almost fetishistic fascination for the ‘Fifth Generation’ in contemporary Chinese film studies; and grants refreshing perspectives to a society in transition in the 1980s.” —Tan See Kam, Associate Professor of Communication, University of Macao, co-author of Chinese Connections: Critical Perspectives in Film, Identity and Diaspora (with Feng and Marchetti)
Description
In the last twenty years of the twentieth century, the People’s Republic of China underwent profound transformations, of which the changing situation of youth was particularly striking. In a society that has traditionally assumed respect for age, the prominence of youth and their new autonomy were conspicuous. A young generation born on the eve of and growing up during the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976) came to depart from the established social norms by the late 1980s and were considered “rebels,” standing in an antagonistic relationship with mainstream ideology. Young Rebels in Contemporary Chinese Cinema analyzes the construction of “youth culture” in 1980s China by examining young-rebel films in terms of three areas: products (rock ’n’ roll music), belief (or lack of it) and mode of behaviour. The study also contexualizes these films by tracing the relationship between changes in politics and changes in film from the 1950s to the present, with particular reference to the altered portrayal of young adults in the 1980s.