Box Office Receipts: Tangshan Earthquake

California Santa Barbara Dept: The movie has proved wildly popular, reflecting a transformational period for China that has included its stunning economic ascendance, dramatic societal changes and social upheaval. Opening in mid-July and showing on an unprecedented 4,000 screens across China, Aftershock had already raked in more than $79.4-million U.S. in box-office receipts by last week, according to Globe And Mail. It also embodies the unabashed commercialism that has now overtaken much of China, as well as the frictions between creative expression and government controls and aftershock , which has smashed box-office records in China to become the highest grossing domestic film ever made, examines the emotional, physical and psychological toll of the 1976 Tangshan earthquake on one Chinese family during a 30-year span. “It functions as a form of cinematic catharsis for these people who have experienced these traumatic events,” said Michael Berry, a professor of contemporary Chinese cultural studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and author of A History of Pain , which explores the portrayal of trauma in Chinese literature and film. As reported in the news.
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