Related Films | Week 6
Check out these related films available in the Reed film and video library!
China on the march: [China 1949-1958], 130 mins., 1958?
Indian producer/director Mohan Bhavani and his wife Enakshi Bhavani
toured 12,000 miles of China at the invitation of the China-India Friendship Association. Includes views of several cities and cultural events.
China: the cold red war, 70 mins, c. 1960s
[Includes films "Truth and Slande"r and "Beware Maoism"] The ideological battles between the US and the USSR were nothing compared to the fierce and hostile intercommunistic battles between the Soviet Union and The People's Republic of China. This Soviet film is a dramatic example of the power of propaganda filmmaking. Complete with eerie sound effects, these government-made films portray a China constantly preparing to fight for world domination and an imperialist dictator--Chairman Mao
The great advancement of Mao Tse-Tung's thought (Mao's little red video), 52 min., c. 1960s
Chinese govt. propaganda film captured by American intelligence in the late 1960's. This film depicts PRC atomic and nuclear bomb testing in the 1960's. The philosophy of Chairman Mao and the good of the mission is emphasized throughout the film.
Lian ai ji jie (The season for love), 100 min, 1988.
Chinese feature film with English subtitles produced in Inner Mongolia. During the Cultural Revolution a female graduate student from Beijing was sent down to a sheep farming area in Inner Mongolia and fell in love with a local boy. Compare to Xiu Xiu the Sentdown Girl for portrayal of sexualized Han-minority relations.
Furong zhen (Hibiscus town), 126 mins, 1989.
Acclaimed feature film, Chinese with English subtitles. Story of a couple who sells rice beancurd for a living. During the "four clean-ups" movement of 1964, they are classified as new rich peasants: their house is confiscated and the husband is driven to suicide. After the Cultural Revolution, the wife falls in love with a rightist and almost dies when having a difficult delivery of their baby
Mao Zedong di gu shi (The story of Mao Zedong), 145 min, 1990
Chinese film with English subtitles. This film in two volumes portrays Mao Zedong's life from the 1940s to the 1970s. By dramatising interviews with people who had personal contact with Mao, and presenting anecdotes from his biographies, the life of the Chinese leader is presented from various angles.
The Mao years, 1949-1976, 120 mins., 1994.
Art in the Cultural Revolution: Establishment of a New Age, 33 min., 1997
Examines the Communist Party's rigorously enforced art policies during China's Cultural Revolution from 1966-1976, when pictorial artists were given strict aesthetic guidelines for the production of works designed to promote the ideology and imagery of Mao Zedong's vision of a new society. Through a detailed study of paintings, posters and operas- from their color scheme and their treatment of light and shadow, to the bodily poses and facial expressions ... - the video reveals how artists were politically mobilized under the guidance of Mao's wife, Jiang Qing, to promote an ideology of revolutionary purity
