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id	eprints-30205
recordtype	eprints
institution	SOAS, University of London
collection	SOAS Research Online
language	English
language_search	English
description	This article looks at the career and work of a prominent Vietnamese film director, Đặng Nhật Minh. By taking a closer look at his film When the Tenth Month Comes, this article challenges the Cold War perception of communist art as a mere servant to politics and ideology, with little aesthetic ambition beyond its didactic and propagandist duty. It explores Minh’s use of lyricism as an effective tool of subversion and means to assert his autonomy as a communist artist. It is through the lyrical that the film director reaches back to the core of Vietnamese cultural identity and ancient traditions to provide a poetic affirmation of the resilience of his nation’s culture, while mobilizing a sense of belonging and loyalty to the communist project.
author_additional	Skrodzka, Aga
author_additionalStr	Skrodzka, Aga
format	Book Chapters
author	Healy, Dana
author_facet	Healy, Dana
authorStr	Healy, Dana
author_letter	Healy, Dana
title	The Lyrical Subversions of Socialist Realism in Đặng Nhật Minh’s New Wave Cinema
publisher	Oxford University Press
publishDate	2020
url	https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/30205/