Quick notes, another opinion on the Cultural Revolution (and its psychopolitics, aesthetic reorganization) (easing my conscience): art for the masses and Tsui Hark
+++ Filmmaking in the decade after the fall of the Gang of Four was intended to subvert the socialist realist gaze. This is true of Troubled Laughter (1979), with its terrifying account of a journalist’s torture. This is true of Romance on Lushan Mountain (1980). The individual is examined aga…
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