Intermedial Laughter: Hou Baolin and xiangsheng dianying in mid-1950s’ China

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description Comedy film in the early Mao era is a site of negotiation and contestation. The ephemeral presence of satirical comedies in the Hundred Flowers period (1956–1957) and the long–awaited reemergence of the genre, albeit in the form of eulogistic comedies, in the early 1960s bespeak at once the challenge of producing sociopolitically appropriate laughter and the unceasing popular yearning for it. Recent studies have explored the determinants of laughter’s tortuous path to screen by paying great attention to the varied kinds of conflict and negotiation among film artists, audiences, critics, cultural administrators, and party authorities.¹ They have also...
author_additional Zhu, Ping
author_additionalStr Zhu, Ping
format Book Chapters
author Lu, Xiaoning
author_facet Lu, Xiaoning
authorStr Lu, Xiaoning
author_letter Lu, Xiaoning
title Intermedial Laughter: Hou Baolin and xiangsheng dianying in mid-1950s’ China
publisher University of Hong Kong Press
publishDate 2019
url https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/31489/

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