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Making Mao
Content:Documentary Film
Available From:Films for the Humanities and Sciences
Review Available:Review
Media Type:DVD
Release Date:2009
Audience:Higher Education
High School
Running Time:52 Minutes
Physical Description:(Null)
Language:English
Subject:Anthropology and Sociology
Region:East Asia
Country:China



Abstract:

When the Communist Party took over China in 1949, it engineered a massive propaganda campaign to promote a workers’ 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




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