Women in Chinese martial arts films of the new millennium : narrative analyses and gender politics / / Ya-chen Chen.
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| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | xvii, 295 p. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Toward social-cultural and historical readings: "Chinese cinematic martial arts feminism" and its limitation in the narrative of martial arts films
- Narrative analyses of women and gender concerns in every film. The fox, dragon, and lotus in Crouching tiger, hidden dragon
- To (en)gender the gendered history in hero
- There is a beauty in the door(way) of flying daggers
- Women who do not practice martial arts in Seven swords
- Cinderella, Snow White, and Sleeping beauty in The promise
- The Chinese Hamlet's two women and Shakespeare's Chinese sisters: Qing Nu and Waner in The banque
- Traffic of madwomen in the Chinese royal attic: gender concerns in Curse of the golden flower
- Integrated analyses about the limitation of feminist emancipation in groups of films. Let's make a wish: martial arts ladies' wishes under the cinematic pen(is) from A touch of zen to Crouching tiger hidden dragon, Hero, House of flying daggers, and The promise
- Phallocentric teacher-student comoplex: from Legend of the mountain, Crouching tiger hidden dragon, and Hero to Seven swords
- A Chinese cinematic martial arts room of Pygmalion's own
- Interviews. Interview with Chung Ling, King Hu's spouse and screenwriter
- Interview with Pan Hua, a female classmate and peer-director of Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige, Tian Zhuangzhuang, Wu Ziniu, Li Shaohong, Hu Mei, and Peng Xiaolian
- Interview with Tsai Kuo-Jung, a coplanner and screenwriter of Ang Lee's Crouching tiger hidden dragon
- Interview with Wang Wei, a judge in the Golden Horse Film Festival.