Keyword: cultural revolution

The East Is Red

6.9

1965

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Pre-Cultural Revolution propaganda at its most lavish, this model opera depicts the history and evolution of the Communist Party of China under Mao Zedong from its founding in July 1921 to the establishment of \New China\ in 1949. Detailed in the musical are several key events in CPC history such as the Northern Expedition, the KMT-led Shanghai massacre of 1927, the Nanchang Uprising and formation of the Peoples Liberation Army, the Long March and the founding of the PRC on October 1, 1949.

Smothered: The Censorship Struggles of the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour

8.3

2002

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The history of the irreverent \The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour\ and the content battles it fought with its television network.

Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder

5

2009

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The poet and painter, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, is among the worlds living monuments to arts and letters. For well over a half century, Ferlinghetti helped shape the currents of poetry and literature with his forceful engagement with society and an ideological position that often found him at odds with the political currents of his day. Ferlinghettis quiet, behind the scenes demeanor and disarming mien may have assuaged, or even fooled, certain opponents, while in reality he was a literary mercenary, a rebel at the forefront of our own cultural revolution.