Title Chinese women's cinema : transnational contexts / edited by Lingzhen Wang

Published New York : Columbia University Press, ©2011 ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (x, 430 pages) : illustrations Series Film and culture Film and culture. Contents 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 CINEMAChapter 14 -- In Search of Esther Eng; Chapter 15 -- Transpacific Waves in a Global Sea; Chapter 16 -- Filming One's Way Home; Filmography; Glossary; Bibliography; Index; Series List Summary 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 Eng, Tang Shu Shuen, Dong Kena, and Sylvia Chang, among others who have transformed Chinese cinema Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-410) and index Filmography: pages 369-376 Notes Print version record Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBL, viewed Mar. 18, 2016) Subject Motion pictures -- China -- History -- 20th century Motion pictures -- Taiwan -- History -- 20th century Motion pictures -- China -- Hong Kong -- History -- 20th century Women motion picture producers and directors -- China Feminist films -- History and criticism Women in motion pictures. ART -- Film & Video. PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- Reference. PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- General. Feminist films. Motion pictures. Women in motion pictures. Women motion picture producers and directors. Film Frau Motiv Frauenfilm Feministischer Film Filmregisseurin Filmregisseurin. Frauenfilm. Film. China. China -- Hong Kong. Taiwan. China Taiwan Hongkong China. Taiwan. Hongkong. Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History. Form Electronic book Author Wang, Lingzhen, editor. ISBN 9780231527446 0231527446

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