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This chapter primarily analyzes discourses about the uniqueness of cinema, in order to elucidate how these discourses saw three levels of mobilizing people—first to mobilize them to watch national policy films, then to mobilize them to identify with “the national populace” redefined as self-disciplined subject, and finally to mobilize them for total war—as identical functions. While clashes erupted over the different principles of entertainment and education, popularity and prestige, and spontaneity and coercion, these cinema discourses led to the formation of fantasies that could disavow these conflicts, as well as contradictions concerning region, gender, and other social components. The chapter further suggests that this kind of fantasy structure carried over to the postwar era and even to the present day. |
