Cinematic Guerrillas: Propaganda, Projectionists, and Audiences in Socialist China

by Jie Li

Winner, 2024 Moving Image Book Award, Kraszna-Krausz Foundation

How might cinema make revolution and mobilize the masses? In socialist China, the film exhibition network expanded from fewer than six hundred movie theaters to more than a hundred thousand mobile film projectionist teams. Holding screenings in improvised open-air spaces in rural areas lacking electricity, these roving projectionists brought not only films but also power...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231206267
• ISBN13: 9780231206266
• Release Date: December 2023
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"