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Cinema and the Chinese Cultural Revolution
Professor Hu Ke from the Media University in Beijing will lecture on Cinema and the Chinese Cultural Revolution.

Thursday, April 19, 2007, 2:30-4:00pm
USC Leavey Auditorium
Lecture will be in Chinese with English Translation
Professor Hu is the author of A History of Chinese Cinema Theory (2005); Chinese Cinema Aesthetics:1999 (1999); American Film Analysis (2006); Contemporary European and American Films (2000), and many other texts, and has produced nearly a hundred episodes of Chinese television documentaries.
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