Masters of the nation: Representation of the industrial worker in films of the Cultural Revolution period (1966-1976)

Cinema, an extremely popular and useful cultural form during the Maoist era, played a big role in shaping working class subjectivity. This article argues that despite their highly politicised and formalised content, industrial-themed films made during the Cultural Revolution created a “masters of th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gong, Qian
Format: Journal Article
Published: French Centre for Research on Contemporary China 2015
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Online Access:http://chinaperspectives.revues.org/6690
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/12335