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Making Mao
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- Summary
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When the Communist Party took over China in 1949, it engineered a massive propaganda campaign to promote a worker's utopia and make Mao Zedong a god. This program examines the creation of the Mao-c...
When the Communist Party took over China in 1949, it engineered a massive propaganda campaign to promote a worker's utopia and make Mao Zedong a god. This program examines the creation of the Mao-centered iconography that permeated the visual, performing, and popular arts as China struggled through its brutal metamorphosis into a modern nation. Artists relate the experience of being forced to work in the Soviet-inspired style that fueled the leader's popularity, as the video tracks Mao's image from revolutionary symbol to its appropriation for kitschy pop art.
Details
- Creator
- Terranoa
- Format
- Videos, Slides, Films
- Languages
- English, Multiple languages
- Publication
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- New York, N.Y. : Films Media Group, [2010], c2009
- Physical Details
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- 1 streaming video file (52 min.) : sd., col., digital file
- digital
- data file
- OCLC
- ocn811356641
- Access requires authentication through Films on Demand.
- Films on Demand is distributed by Films Media Group for Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, and Shopware.
- Encoded with permission for digital streaming by Films Media Group on November 18, 2010.
- System requirements: FOD playback platform.
- Mode of access: Internet.
- Closed-captioned.
- Portions in other languages with English subtitles.
- Visual Art as Propaganda (2:41) -- Communist Party Bonds With Peasants (1:41) -- Visual Language of the Revolution (3:09) -- Art as a Control Factor (2:42) -- Propagandist art of the 1950s (2:44) -- Mao's Sense of Internationalism (1:21) -- Mao's Great Leap Forward (1:28) -- Mao Loses Power/Regains Power (3:34) -- Mao: Red, Bright, and Shining Sun (5:19) -- Badges of Honor (2:05) -- Younger Role Models (2:09) -- Paranoia and Witch Hunts (6:12) -- Death of Mao (2:27) -- Mao Mania (2:57) -- Artistic Reinterpretation of Mao (5:08) -- Exhibitions and Aberrations of Mao (6:00) -- Credits: Making Mao (0:34)