3)The Communist era,1950s-1960s: With the Communist takeover in 1949,the government saw motion pictures as an important tool for propaganda.Starting from 1951,pre-1949 Chinese films and Hollywood and Hong Kong productions were banned. Movies centered around peasants and soldiers. Chinese filmmakers were sent to Moscow to study Soviet filmmaking. In 1956,the Beijing Film Academy was opened. 4)The Cultural Revolution,1960s-1980s: During the Cultural Revolution,the film industry was severely restricted. Almost all previous films were banned,and only a few new ones were produced. The most notable--a ballet version of the revolutionary opera The Red Detachment of Women(1971) The film depicts the liberation of a peasant girl and her rise in the Chinese Communist Party
3) The Communist era, 1950s-1960s: With the Communist takeover in 1949, the government saw motion pictures as an important tool for propaganda. Starting from 1951, pre-1949 Chinese films and Hollywood and Hong Kong productions were banned. Movies centered around peasants and soldiers. Chinese filmmakers were sent to Moscow to study Soviet filmmaking. In 1956, the Beijing Film Academy was opened. 4) The Cultural Revolution, 1960s-1980s: During the Cultural Revolution, the film industry was severely restricted. Almost all previous films were banned, and only a few new ones were produced. The most notable -- a ballet version of the revolutionary opera The Red Detachment of Women (1971). The film depicts the liberation of a peasant girl and her rise in the Chinese Communist Party
5th Generation 1980s to 1990s Films"produced in the midst of the 'Modernization'campaign that was launched by Deng Xlaoping after he returned to power in the late 1970s"(Chow,79). 京 ."post-Cultural Revolution booming of aesthetic experimentation"(Chow,80) Beijing Film Institute the first class to graduate after the Cultural Revolution in 1982 Chen Kaige,Zhang Yimou,Tian Zhuangzhuang,Wu Ziniu,etc. Chen Kaige's Yellow Earth unofficially started it-12 April,1985 premier at Hong Kong Film Festival (Hitchcock,117). Directors Diverse in Subject and Style. 北学院 "There is no generational style unifying them,but there is definitely a common will,which,simply said,is to break new ground technically and thematically by exploring both their medium and their culture"(Huot, 93). Beijing Film Academy-The largest institution of higher learning for Film Television Production in Asia
• Films “produced in the midst of the ‘Modernization’ campaign that was launched by Deng Xiaoping after he returned to power in the late 1970s” (Chow, 79). • “post-Cultural Revolution booming of aesthetic experimentation” (Chow, 80). • Beijing Film Institute = the first class to graduate after the Cultural Revolution in 1982. • Chen Kaige, Zhang Yimou, Tian Zhuangzhuang, Wu Ziniu, etc. • Chen Kaige’s Yellow Earth unofficially started it – 12 April, 1985 premier at Hong Kong Film Festival (Hitchcock, 117). • Directors Diverse in Subject and Style. • “There is no generational style unifying them, but there is definitely a common will, which, simply said, is to break new ground technically and thematically by exploring both their medium and their culture” (Huot, 93). Beijing Film Academy – The largest institution of higher learning for Film & Television Production in Asia. 5th Generation 1980s to 1990s
黃土地Huang tu di:Yellow Earth(1984): Chen Kaige,Director IOTI嘿SIE Zhang Yimou,Cameraman CONSISTEVTIY RICH AND EVOCATIVE" aroc "Yellow Earth cannot be more culturally specific.It contains all manner of details that can be read as distinctively Chinese within a Third World cinema.In a nutshell,Yellow Earth makes visible China's geography,folk, their customs,history and philosophy,past and present"(Huot,93). "Rather than choose between two alternative visions of Chinese history,Yellow Earth stages comes revolution this contradiction as the governing principle of its narrative technique"(Hitchcock,119). Yellow Earth on the maker o。 FAREWELL MY CONCURINE.JU DOU and RAISE THIE RED LANTERN
黃土地Huang tu di: Yellow Earth (1984): Chen Kaige, Director Zhang Yimou, Cameraman “Yellow Earth cannot be more culturally specific. It contains all manner of details that can be read as distinctively Chinese within a Third World cinema. In a nutshell, Yellow Earth makes visible China’s geography, folk, their customs, history and philosophy, past and present” (Huot, 93). “Rather than choose between two alternative visions of Chinese history, Yellow Earth stages this contradiction as the governing principle of its narrative technique” (Hitchcock, 119)