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Women through the lens : gender and nation in a century of Chinese cinema /

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cui, Shuqin
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, ©2003.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I. Early production. From shadow-play to a national cinema ; Reconstructing history: the (im)possible engagement between feminism and postmodernism in Stanley Kwan's Center stage
  • Part II. Socialist cinema. Constructing and consuming the revolutionary narratives ; Gender politics and socialist discourse in Xie Jin's The red detachment of women
  • Part III. The new wave. Screening China: national allegories and international receptions ; The search for male masculinity and sexuality in Zhang Yimou's Ju dou ; Subjected body and gendered identity: female impersonation in Chen Kaige's Farewell my concubine
  • Part IV. Women's films. Feminism with Chinese characteristics? ; Desire in difference: female voice and point of view in Hu Mei's Army nurse ; Transgender masquerading in Huang Shuqin's Human, woman, demon.