🇨🇳 When propaganda sells: Blockbuster films and the Chinese State | The Listening Post (Feature)
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- Cinema has performed an important role in the Chinese Communist Party's - CCP - media strategy since the early years of the People's Republic of China. With the introduction of market sales in the 1990s, popular cinema found its own voice and with it, a space in which to satirise China's rapidly changing society.
A space that has at times, put Chinese cinema on a collision course with the state. Since 2017 therefore, the most commercially successful films have had more of a traditional propaganda ring to them. Fusing patriotic narratives with Hollywood-style budgets and effects, films such as Wolf Warrior 2, Operation Red Sea and The Wandering Earth successfully echo an increased national assertiveness espoused under the leadership of President Xi Jinping - while also engaging audiences in a way never done before.
All three immediately became the highest grossing films in Chinese cinematic history. But the not so invisible arm of the state is never far away. And in the same period, the CCP has redoubled its efforts in the movie space, bringing the regulation of the film industry under the direct control of the Central Propaganda Department.
The Listening Post's Meenakshi Ravi reports on the new blockbusters of Chinese cinema.
Contributors
Chris Berry - Professor of Film Studies, King's College London
Patrick Frater - Asia Bureau Chief, Variety
Sabrina Yu - Senior lecturer, Newcastle University
Stanley Kwan - Film Director
Producer
Adam Knight
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But Hollywood movies takes it all when it comes to propaganda in war movies. From Rambo to Black hawk down. U name em.
So does Full Metal Jacket, and Platoon with strong criticism to the US. What China have?
So about there are about once a decade there is a very pro-American movies out of thousands made, meanwhile every single one of the movies allowed to be shown in China have to meet the PRC propaganda standards.
Movies are propaganda...Thats part of their new purpose in this day and age.
Just look at all those superhero comics. All superheroes settle in USA and protect it.....All of them!
@@jojyrocks because they are all superheroes from American comic books. Saying all movies are propaganda is bullshit.
@Todd Brill thankfully someone gets it
Oh, those chinese are using their movies to promoting their ideology and values !
Don't make me laugh
how many movies that gangs holds a funny slavic accent?
how many movies that we asians live in a bamboo house next to a rice paddy?
time for some change
@Chinese Cannabis Party CCP arabs and us are allies
I shall make the first Chinese superhero film in the next few years and see what happens... probably will be banned.
The CCP unleashed their propaganda army in the comment section
i tell you some jokes: Qatari complained North Korea is not a democratic country, and also complained North Korea man didn't treat woman well...
Korean movie is better than Chinese!
@Princess Marshella Horman Korean story line better than all movie
@Princess Marshella Horman LOTR is based on novel written in 1890s not og script of Hollywood
But other wise action VFX and all over execution was perfect
This is irony taken to a new level. Al-Jazeera preaching about propaganda.
Al Jazeera has its flaws for sure, but at least has some degree of independence from the World zionist dictat.
Few Media stay out of their hands...
@@AlexandreEdison The only positive thing about Jazeera and its nitpicking of western societies, while largely ignoring the muslim world and in particular the Arab peninsula and especially Qatar itself, is that it fuels the hatred between the muslim world and the free sane one. Hopefully that means we can separate the two, build walls and stay separated forever.
@@hermanspaerman3490 Does it hurt when truth is spoken? Yes of course.
I think endgame has captain america in it, i think we should also call that nationalist propaganda.
China: Hold my beer
Have you seen Black Hawk Down, American Sniper, Air Force One, or 24 with Kiefer Sutherland? Those are patriotic US shows that demonize the foreign antagonists.
Go and watch all Micheal bay’s movies its full of propaganda
Hahahaha what a joke
the core issue is that chinese media doesnt openly embrace romantic themes like taiwan media or korean media.
Romantic themes? Have you seen Chinese dramas? They are oversaturated with romance if anything.
what about American propaganda machine industry
Chinazi
Is the Chinese movie industry any different from Hollywood though?
It is. Even in Marvel films Captain America ended at odds with the US goverment. Depicted practically as infiltrated by the nazis (operation Paperclip was real, the analogy is Hydra)
Those are really nice movies , I have seen them , full of action
Samuel Untermeyer created Hollywood in 1909.
He created the Federal Reserve in 1913.
He created “Scofield bible” in 1909.
Do you start to get what’s the game...?
Hello!? Anyone here to talk about Indian propoganda movie titled "PM Narendra Modi" itself.
Then what you want movie on bin Laden the Islamic propaganda
Oh gross, as soon I saw this was Al Jazeera I had to turn this garbage off
China is no 2 in CGI quality only after US.
The movie will please a lot Chinese, especially the elders who were constantly been told China is the Best country, and we have a great government, Because the censorship. But some of us just feel sick about it, we know it's not true.We hate our government , and we can't say it in public.The box-office is not true, yes ,we can fake almost everything.
@yehoutube Yes ,hatred is not good, sometimes you can't do any thing about it.But this situation will not be continue very soon. Because we will take action.And I AM NOT ALONE!