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DESCRIPTION:East Asian Studies Speaker Series \n\n \n\nSocialist Hot Noise:
  \n\nLoudspeakers and Open-Air Cinema in Mao’s China \n\n \n\nJie Li \n\nJ
 ohn L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities \n\nHarvard University 
 \n\n \n\nDrawing on current book projects on Chinese broadcasting and film
  exhibition\, this talk excavates a media history of loudspeakers and open
 -air cinema through the conceptual framework of “socialist hot noise”: a p
 articipatory sociothermic affect and a synergy between body and electricit
 y that soldered scattered populations into the revolutionary masses. The f
 irst half examines the growth of loudspeaker networks and grassroots sonic
  practices\, from broadcast rallies to sparrow warfare\, from labor compet
 itions to quasi-karaoke\, from enhancing the Mao cult to engendering viole
 nce and terror. The second half discusses open-air cinema as a hot noise o
 f attractions that generated revolutionary energy through cinematic liturg
 ies led by mobile projectionists before\, during\, and after screenings. M
 aoist audiovisual propaganda\, I propose\, was at once a physical and spir
 it medium\, whose improvised and impoverished infrastructure contributed t
 o the Mao cult\, converted skeptics of communist miracles\, and exorcized 
 class enemies. The conclusion addresses the revival of loudspeakers and op
 en-air cinema in a postsocialist media ecology. \n\n \n\nWednesday\, Novem
 ber 10th\, 2021 \n\n3:30-5:00 p.m. ET \n\nThe lecture will be hosted on Zo
 om: \n\nhttps://mcgill.zoom.us/j/89523242958\n
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SUMMARY:Socialist Hot Noise: Loudspeakers and Open-Air Cinema in Mao’s Chin
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