Epitome, Legitimation, and Reproduction: Nostalgia and Grand History in Two Chinese Melodramatic Films by September Liu

“…This short essay will examine three recently-released melodramas — Zhang Yimou’s Under the Hawthorn Tree (Shanzhashu zhi Lian, 2010), Peter Chan’s American Dreams in China (Zhongguo Hehuoren, 2013), and Guo Fan’s My Old Classmate (Tongzhuo de Ni, 2014) – based on a revisit of nostalgia’s discursive forms and roles in the four-decade-long history of contemporary Chinese melodramas. …”
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