Following a string of celebrity scandals, Chinese officials have told young filmmakers entering China’s top film school that their foremost task is to develop the “moral cultivation” necessary to f…
Following a string of celebrity scandals, Chinese officials have told young filmmakers entering China’s top film school that their foremost task is to develop the “moral cultivation” necessary to further China’s rise in the world., cradle of the country’s top filmmaking talent, last week opened a major new campus in the capital’s northern Huairou district, an hour’s drive outside the urban center.
China is in the midst of its most dramatic crackdown yet on what officials have called an overly “chaotic” fan culture. The Beijing Film Academy was founded in 1950 right at the start of the People’s Republic, and is the only public film institution of higher learning directly created by the Party and the state, speakers reminded students.
China has recently banned the use of popularity and attractiveness lists and indexes to rank celebrities. Hu criticized the way those lists drove the widespread use of plastic surgery, calling stars engaging in such procedures “detached from life” and capable of creating only “cookie-cutter, empty and boring works.”
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