Queer Representations in Chinese-language Film and the Cultural Landscape / / Shi-Yan Chao.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
• VerfasserIn: Chao, Shi-Yan,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Asian Visual Cultures ; 9
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (412 p.)

This book provides a cultural history of queer representations in Chinese-language film and media, negotiated by locally produced knowledge, local cultural agency, and lived histories. Incorporating a wide range of materials in both English and Chinese, this interdisciplinary project investigates the processes through which Chinese tongzhi/queer imaginaries are articulated, focusing on four main themes: the Chinese familial system, Chinese opera, camp aesthetic, and documentary impulse. Chao's discursive analysis is rooted in and advances genealogical inquiries: a non-essentialist intervention into the "Chinese" idea of filial piety, a transcultural perspective on the contested genre of film melodrama, a historical investigation of the local articulations of mass camp and gay camp, and a transnational inquiry into the different formats of documentary. This book is a must for anyone exploring the cultural history of Chinese tongzhi/queer through the lens of transcultural media.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Processing Tongzhi/Queer Imaginaries -- Section I. Against Families, Against States -- 1. The Chinese Queer Diasporic Imaginary -- 2. Two Stage Sisters: Comrades, Almost a Love Story -- Section II. Camp Aesthetics -- 3. Mass Camp in Contemporary Hong Kong Cinema -- 4. Toward an Aesthetic of Tongzhi Camp -- Section III. Documentary Impulse -- 5. Coming Out of The Box, Lalas with DV Cameras -- 6. Performing Gender, Performing Documentary in Postsocialist China -- Conclusion -- Chinese Glossary -- Bilingual Filmography -- Bibliography -- Index