TY - JOUR
T1 - Contemporary Chinese TV Serials
T2 - Configuring Collective Memory of Socialist Nostalgia via the Cultural Revolution
AU - Cai, Shenshen
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - Using China's Cultural Revolution as a representative historical event, this article examines how the collective memory and popular history revolving around it are manufactured and interpreted in televisual media narratives. The collective memory of the Cultural Revolution, as I will show, is constructed and not preserved, and the collective framework of memory, as the predominant thoughts and the governing ideological rhetoric of society, configures people's memories of past events. A textual analysis of the TV drama, The Place Where Dreams Start [Meng kaishi de difang, 1998], a typical revolutionary nostalgia text, will expose the process of collective memory concerning the Cultural Revolution for what it is—cultural amnesia that is misleading and regressive.
AB - Using China's Cultural Revolution as a representative historical event, this article examines how the collective memory and popular history revolving around it are manufactured and interpreted in televisual media narratives. The collective memory of the Cultural Revolution, as I will show, is constructed and not preserved, and the collective framework of memory, as the predominant thoughts and the governing ideological rhetoric of society, configures people's memories of past events. A textual analysis of the TV drama, The Place Where Dreams Start [Meng kaishi de difang, 1998], a typical revolutionary nostalgia text, will expose the process of collective memory concerning the Cultural Revolution for what it is—cultural amnesia that is misleading and regressive.
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U2 - 10.1080/08949468.2016.1108821
DO - 10.1080/08949468.2016.1108821
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84949571338
VL - 29
SP - 22
EP - 35
JO - Visual Anthropology
JF - Visual Anthropology
SN - 0894-9468
IS - 1
ER -