The Truth of the Swing in Military Movies: Between Politics and the Public

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10.2991/icassee-19.2019.82How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Chinese military film; view of reality; social control; politics; the public

Abstract

The relationship between social control and films is inseparable. On the one hand, film censorship, policies and regulations as representative of "hard control" regulate and restrict film creation and production activities all the time; on the other hand, internal factors such as moral concepts and national emotions guide and influence the film generation with the attitude of "soft control". The view of reality in Chinese military film is the representative achievement in revolutionary realism (or socialist realism), the modern extension of the traditional concept of "seeking truth" and "seeking reality" of the Chinese nation, and also a literary style that is generally appreciated by the middle and upper buildings in the developing socialist society with Chinese characteristics. Throughout the different aspects of military films in the development path of a hundred years, it can be found that the swing attitudes of realism in different historical periods show the change and dissociation of control power during the transformation of Chinese society. The truth of this swing reflects the complexity and diversity of social control.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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