TY  - JOUR
AU  - Zhang, Huiyu
JF  - Javnost-The Public
TI  - Chinese Blockbusters and Culture Self-Confidence
VL  - 27
IS  - 2
PY  - 2020
SN  - 1854-8377
PB  - EURICOM
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1080/13183222.2020.1727272
N2  - Along with the market-oriented development of the Chinese economy in the reform-era, the country’s once highly-political revolutionary arts and cultural realm has been transformed into commercialised mass culture. Specifically, the accelerated market-oriented restructuring of the Chinese film industry since 2000 has turned China into the world’s second largest film market. At the same time, it has also led to the recent emergence of domestic commercial blockbusters that both bolster official values and enjoy successful market returns. Encompassing titles such as Wolf Warrior II (2017), Operation Red Sea (2018), The Wandering Earth (2019) and My People, My Country (2019), these films, not short of spectacular Hollywood-calibre visual effects, express the culture self-confidence of a rising Chinese nation as they reflect the cultural taste of a rapidly expanding new Chinese film audience.
U1  - Print ISSN: 1318-3222
ER  -