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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Honolulu :
University of Hawaiʻi Press
©2003.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt6wqpfs |
Table of Contents:
- Part I. Early production. From shadow-play to a national cinema ; Reconstructing history: the (im)possible engagement between feminism and postmodernism in Stanley Kwan's Center stage
- Part II. Socialist cinema. Constructing and consuming the revolutionary narratives ; Gender politics and socialist discourse in Xie Jin's The red detachment of women
- Part III. The new wave. Screening China: national allegories and international receptions ; The search for male masculinity and sexuality in Zhang Yimou's Ju dou ; Subjected body and gendered identity: female impersonation in Chen Kaige's Farewell my concubine
- Part IV. Women's films. Feminism with Chinese characteristics? ; Desire in difference: female voice and point of view in Hu Mei's Army nurse ; Transgender masquerading in Huang Shuqin's Human, woman, demon.