Women Through the Lens: Gender and Nation in a Century of Chinese Cinema 9780824865634
Women Through the Lens raises the question of how gender, especially the image of woman, acts as a visual and discursive
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English Pages 338 [336] Year 2003
Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
PART ONE: EARLY PRODUCTION
1. From Shadow-Play to a National Cinema
2. Reconstructing History: The (Im)possible Engagement between Feminism and Postmodernism in Stanley Kwan’s Center Stage
PART TWO: SOCIALIST CINEMA
3. Constructing and Consuming the Revolutionary Narratives
4. Gender Politics and Socialist Discourse in Xie Jin’s The Red Detachment of Women
PART THREE: THE NEWWAVE
5. Screening China: National Allegories and International Receptions
6. The Search for Male Masculinity and Sexuality in Zhang Yimou’s Ju Dou
7. Subjected Body and Gendered Identity: Female Impersonation in Chen Kaige’s Farewell My Concubine
PART FOUR: WOMEN’S FILMS
8. Feminism with Chinese Characteristics?
9. Desire in Difference: Female Voice and Point of View in Hu Mei’s Army Nurse
10. Transgender Masquerading in Huang Shuqin’s Human,Woman, Demon
Postscript
Filmography
Notes
Works Cited
Index
