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Here is a topic for your final paper. Please concentrate on producing good close readings and analysis of primary sources. You are encouraged, but not obliged to, draw upon the critical articles assigned. The essay should have a coherent structure and original argument supported by specific textual analysis of the film(s). Avoid unnecessary plot summary and generalization, and the more tightly defined the topic, the better. The paper is 5 pages long, double-spaced, font 12.

Both Jiang Wen’s In the Heat of the Sun and Zhang Yimou’s To Live attempted to come to terms with historical trauma during the Cultural Revolution by exploring individual memories. These two directors differed in and/or shared particular ways in which they sought to construct the historical reality, thus conveying their distinctive historical consciousness. Please provide your discussion on this subject matter, and also consider how individual memories, which could be fragmented and even imagined, help to build and/or obscure the representations of the past.

the links of two movies are: 1 Jiang Wen’s In the Heat of the Sun:

2 Zhang Yimou’s To Live :


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Subjective Representations of Historical Trauma
Jiang Wen’s In the Heat of the Sun and Zhang Yimou’s To Live explore individual
memories that form during the Mao’s Cultural Revolution. The purpose of the present paper is to
show that in both movies the political events of the Cultural Revolution are represented not
through their political, economic, and social significant, but through their impact on the life of
regular citizens.
In the Heat of the Sun, Jian Wen tells the story for a child that few up in Beijing during
the famous Cultural Revolution. The plot of the movie is connected with several anecdotes that
are meant to reflect some typical emotional experience of adolescence, such as developing one’s
identity and celebrating freedom. The movie resembles other historically-inspired movies in that
it connects certain political events with personal history. Jian Wen presents Beijing as an almost
empty city, since most of the people, especially those considered to be part of the “authority”
have been sent around the country. The force deployment of people across the country is also
experienced by the hero of the movie, Ma Xiaojun, a Chinese boy who sees his father deployed
to calm the fighting between different Communist sections. For Ma Xiaojun, the Cultural
Revolution is not much about a country left in chaos, but a long summer where he is free to
spend a lot of time with his friends doing almost anything he wants to do (Berry p. 92).

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Freedom, in a subjective sense, seems to be a prevalent theme in the movie. While many
people in China would remember the Cultural Revolution as a time of repression, for the main
character it is a period of significant freedom. The chaos from Bejing loosens society’s control,
and Xiaojun has no problem entering in an empty apartment building or home, taking with him
as many goods as he can (Berry p. 96).
Xiaojun remembers the Cultural Revolution not only as a time of lack of restriction but
also of ...


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