internaltionalism and cultural experience: soviet films and popular chinese understanding of the future in the 1950s

by Tina Mai Chen cultural critique No.58 (autumn, 2004), pp82-114

internationalism, film consumption

"Nor do analysts generally consider forms of consumption located in noncapitalist contexts that promote alternative globally situated subjects."
"soviet union's Today is our tomorrow."
"how consistency, in the domain of the popular, of slogans that associated the (good) Soviet Union with China's future enabled a malleable internationalism to remain 'popular' even across the divide of the Sino-Soviet split at the end of the 1950s. " "internaltionalism referred not only to Sino-Soviet relations; it invoked a utopian vision of an alternatively ordered world order premised on international proletarian revolution as well as the pragmatic politics of a Cold War world in which the strength of nation-states figured prominently."
Korean War-- soviet films "gongke bolin" elements of a larger ongoing common struggle
model women


reference: Tina, Tina Mai. "Female Icon, Feminist Iconography? Socalist Rhetoric and Women's Agency in 1950s China." Gender & History 15, no.2 (August 2003):268-95