Women Through the Lens : : Gender and Nation in a Century of Chinese Cinema /

Women Through the Lens : : Gender and Nation in a Century of Chinese Cinema / / Shuqin Cui.

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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
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Cui, Shuqin,
Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2003]
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Year of Publication:2003
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (336 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • 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

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