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Prohibition and production of the past: Representation of the Cultural Revolution in TV dramas

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The Cultural Revolution ended more than three decades ago and is generally concluded to have been a disaster and trauma; however, it kept resurfacing at different points throughout the past and being interpreted from different perspectives addressing contemporary concerns. TV, one of the most important channels for political communication in China, is closely supervised by the censoring mechanism. Despite political control, TV has also become a contending arena where discourses concerning the Cultural Revolution are negotiated and shaped. This article will juxtapose a text analysis of a recent TV drama Sent Down Youth (2012) with a study of its production and reception within Mainland China so as to map out the complexity and richness in the discursive debates about the Cultural Revolution and its representation. The research intends to explore how TV and social context both limit and at the same time enable discourses around representations and memories of the Cultural Revolution.

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Media Culture & Society

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Publisher

Thousand Oaks : Sage Publications., 2015

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Language

English

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0163-4437

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Volume 37, Issue 5 July 2015, pages 671-687

Subject(s)

Representation
Memory
Censorship
The Cultural Revolution

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