Chinese women's cinema: transnational contexts

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The first of its kind in English, this collection covers twenty one well established and lesser known female filmmakers from mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the Chinese diaspora. Sixteen scholars illuminate these filmmakers' negotiations of local and global politics, cinematic representation, and issues of gender and sexuality, covering works from the 1920s to the present. Writing from the disciplines of film, Asian, women's, and auteur studies, contributors reclaim the work of Esther En…

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Full title :Chinese women's cinema : transnational contexts / edited by Lingzhen Wang.

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Publication Date:©2011

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Publisher(s):Columbia University Press
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2011

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Description:1 online resource (x, 430 pages) : : illustrations

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ISBN:9780231527446, 0231527446
oclc:ocn754326500
LC Classification:PN1993.5.C4
Dewey Decimal:791.43082

Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I -- FEMALE AUTHORSHIP NEGOTIATED IN DIFFERENT TIMES, SPACES, AND GENRES; Chapter 1 -- Socialist Cinema and Female Authorship; Chapter 2 -- Masochist Men and Normal Women; Chapter 3 -- Migrating Hearts; Part II -- GENDERED VOICES: IMAGES AND AFFECT; Chapter 4 -- The Voice of History and the Voice of Women; Chapter 5 -- Post-Taiwan New Cinema Women Directors and Their Films; Chapter 6 -- Affect, Memory, and Trauma Past Tense; Part III -- THE VISUAL SUBJECT AND FEMINIST CINEMA.

Chapter 7 -- The Encoding of Female SubjectivityChapter 8 -- From Mao's "Continuous Revolution" to Ning Ying's Perpetual Motion (2005); Chapter 9 -- Searching for Female Sexuality and Negotiating with Feminism; Part IV -- FEMALE WRITING, PERFORMANCE, AND ISSUES OF CINEMATIC AGENCY; Chapter 10 -- To Write or to Act, That Is the Question; Chapter 11 -- Gender, Genre, and Performance in Eileen Chang's Films; Chapter 12 -- Chu T'ien-wen and the Sotto Voce of Gendered Expression in the Films of Hou Hsiao-Hsien; Chapter 13 -- To Become an Auteur.

Part V -- MIGRATION, DIASPORA, AND TRANSCULTURAL PRACTICE OF GENDER AND CINEM…

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ART -- Film & Video China China -- Hong Kong Cinéma -- Histoire -- 20e siècle. -- Ch… Cinéma -- Histoire -- 20e siècle. -- Ta… Criticism, interpretation, etc Feminist films Feminist films -- History and criticism Feministischer Film Femmes au cinéma Film Filmregisseurin Films féministes -- Histoire et critique Frau Frauenfilm History Hongkong Motion pictures Motion pictures -- History -- 20th cent… Motion pictures -- History -- 20th cent…