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Romanian and Chinese Cinemas: Socialist Affect and Cultural Politics from Maoism to the New Waves

Romanian and Chinese Cinemas: Socialist Affect and Cultural Politics from Maoism to the New Waves

Țion, Lucian

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Film StudiesFilm Guides & Reference

ISBN10: 139951279X
ISBN13: 9781399512794
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: Oct 30 2026
Pages: 216
Weight: 0.68
Height: 0.46 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Drawing on what used to be the erstwhile internationalist cultural space of Communist Eurasia, the author reads socialist-era and postsocialist films made in Romania and China as promoting a common aesthetics predicated on the miserabilism of Third Cinema. The book argues that, despite indictments that socialist cultures were saturated with the oppressing ideology of socialist realism in the 1950s and various forms of indoctrination thereafter, in practice, film directors had the leverage to tackle social issues even in those works that are deemed today propagandist.

Refusing to endorse contemporary theories that seek to align the Romanian and the Chinese New Waves solely to Western cinematic practices, the author argues that China's fifth and sixth generation films as well as New Romanian Cinema are hugely indebted to socialist-era themes, as well as to the dogmatism of socialist realism. Identifying continuity rather than rupture between the socialist past and the capitalist present, the author seeks to redress an imbalance that contemporary scholars of Romanian and Chinese cinemas oftentimes ignore.

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