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Changes in Chinese Cinema in the 80s and the Interesting Aspect of the "Film Sufi"

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1. How did Chinese cinema change in the wake of economic reforms of the 1980s?
2. What are some of the characteristics of Chinese film from the early post-Mao period?
3. How were the fifth generation Chinese directors different from the fourth generation directors?
(questions #1-3 are based on reading in Chinese National Cinema, pp. 226-40)
4. According to the "Film Sufi" blog on To Live, what is an interesting aspect of the film? Also, according to this blog how do Fugui and Jiazhen change over the course of the film, and what is the "auterist stamp" that Zhang Yimou places on his films?
(question #4 is based on the "Film Sufi" blog on To Live: http://www(dot)filmsufi(dot)com/2010/04/to-live-zhang-yimou-1994.html
You can also find the article on Canvas under the link for To Live.)
5. Please briefly describe the events portrayed in the last half hour of the film. How did you interpret the scene with the chicks? We watched 1 hour and 39 minutes of the film, which you can finish watching online here:
https://www(dot)youtube(dot)com/watch?v=ZB7HYhUpDz8
Please write 1-2 pages (or more) in response to the above questions and base your answers on the two readings and your viewing of the end of the film. Please give plenty of examples from the readings (with page numbers for quotations from our textbook) to show that you have completed the readings and given thought to them. Thanks. Feel free to email me if you have any questions.
Just read article and answer question. You can ignore last question. That's easier.

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The Chinese cinema changed in the 1980s when they started making films that targeted their local people. The CMPC’s made a decision to produce omnibus films which reflected the willingness promote new directors into the industry and also help in the reduction of the risks taken ("“To Live” - Zhang Yimou (1994)"). They departed from the heroic and melodramatic narrative that were supported by their predecessors and concentrated on two focal areas of the Taiwan cinema that is the presenting the untainted locale where the cultural practices that were indigenous were being threatened by the rapid growth of modernization secondly depicting the cities as alienating places in which people went their and forgot their childhood and lost their identities.
The characteristics of the post-Mao films include the fact they integrated political message into the film through a melodramatic representation. In his films he was able to integrate sensitive subjects into his fi...
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