Women through the lens : gender and nation in a century of Chinese cinema /
Women Through the Lens raises the question of how gender, especially the image of woman, acts as a visual and discursive sign in the creation of the nation-state in twentieth-century China. Tracing the history of Chinese cinema through the last hundred years from the perspective of transnational fem...
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| フォーマット: | Licensed eBooks |
| 言語: | 英語 |
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Honolulu :
University of Hawaiʻi Press
©2003.
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| オンライン･アクセス: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt6wqpfs |
| 要約: | Women Through the Lens raises the question of how gender, especially the image of woman, acts as a visual and discursive sign in the creation of the nation-state in twentieth-century China. Tracing the history of Chinese cinema through the last hundred years from the perspective of transnational feminism, Shuqin Cui reveals how women have been granted a "privileged visibility" on screen while being denied discursive positions as subjects. In addition, her careful attention to the visual language system of cinema shows how "woman" has served as the site for the narration of nation in the context of China's changing social and political climate. Placing gender and nation in a historical framework, the book first shows how early productions had their roots in shadow plays, a popular form of public entertainment. In examining the "Red Classics" of socialist cinema as a mass cultural form, the book shows how the utopian vision of emancipating the entire proletariat, women included, produced a collective ideology that declared an end to gender difference. Cui then documents and discusses the cinematic spectacle of woman as essential to such widely popular films as Chen Kaige's "Farewell My Concubine" and Zhang Yimou's "Ju Do." Finally, the author brings a feminist perspective to the issues of gender and nation by turning her attention to women directors and their self-representations |
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| 物理的記述: | 1 online resource (xxvi, 304 pages) : illustrations |
| フォーマット: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| 書誌: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-297) and index. Filmography: pages 249-267. |
| ISBN: | 0585479143 9780585479149 9780824865634 0824865634 0824825322 9780824832964 9780824825324 0824832965 |