Following a screening of Nuanxing Zhang’s 1986 film “Sacrificed Youth,” Timothy Bewes (Brown University | English) moderates a panel featuring Cassandra Guan (Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Center for Art, Culture, and Technology), Lingzhen Wang (Brown University | East Asian Studies), and Lu Wang (Brown University | Music)
00:00:00 Introduction | Timothy Bewes
00:04:55 “Sacrificed Youth” and Its Place in Chinese Cinema | Lingzhen Wang
00:15:16 Ideological Context | Cassandra Guan & Lingzhen Wang
00:19:32 Ethnographic Imagination | Cassandra Guan
00:24:51 Music and Sensuality | Lu Wang
00:35:19 Cultural Difference | Lingzhen Wang & Cassandra Guan
00:49:38 Love and Politics | Q&A
01:01:29 The Ethnographic Gaze | Q&A
About the film:
Sacrificed Youth (Qing chun ji)
China, 1986 (96 mins)
Directed by Nuanxing Zhang
Cast: Fengxu Li, Yuanzheng Feng, Tao Song, and Jianguo Guo | Screenplay: Manling Zhang and Nuanxing Zhang | Cinematography: Deyuan Mu and Wei Teng | Editing: Qihua Zhao | Music: Sola Liu and Xiaosong Qu | Language: Mandarin with English Subtitles
Event recorded on April 15, 2024. Presented by the Cogut Institute for the Humanities at Brown University in collaboration with Il Cinema Ritrovato at Brown.