
Published online:
21 January 2016
Published in print:
15 March 2015
Online ISBN:
9781452950655
Print ISBN:
9780816681334
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2 A Culture of Resonance: Hypnotism, Wireless Cinema, and the Invention of Intermedial Spectatorship
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Baptism by Fire Baptism by Fire
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A History of Fire A History of Fire
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Artistic Action: The Making of a Resistance Subject Artistic Action: The Making of a Resistance Subject
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Beyond Chongqing: A Tale of Three Cities Beyond Chongqing: A Tale of Three Cities
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Paradise on Orphan Island Paradise on Orphan Island
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Princess Iron Fan Princess Iron Fan
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Chapter
6 Baptism by Fire: Atmospheric War, Agitation, and a Tale of Three Cities
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Pages
317–374
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Published:March 2015
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Bao, Weihong, 'Baptism by Fire: Atmospheric War, Agitation, and a Tale of Three Cities', Fiery Cinema: The Emergence of an Affective Medium in China, 1915-1945 (Minneapolis, MN , 2015; online edn, Minnesota Scholarship Online, 21 Jan. 2016), https://doi.org/10.5749/minnesota/9780816681334.003.0006, accessed 28 Apr. 2025.
Abstract
Chapter 6 complicates the claim of propaganda as a utopia media infrastructure by returning to individual films across the geopolitical division between Chongqing, Hong Kong, and Shanghai. I illustrate how these films advance agitation in negotiate with earlier notions of affective spectatorship with enduring implication for modern Chinese film and media culture.
Keywords:
Affect, Medium, Intermediality, Propaganda, Spectatorship, Chinese cinema, Architecture, wireless technology, early television
Subject
Film
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