Vulgar Beauty : Acting Chinese in the Global Sensorium /

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"In Vulgar Beauty Mila Zuo offers a new theorization of cinematic feminine beauty by showing how mediated encounters with Chinese film and popular culture stars produce feelings of Chinese-ness. To illustrate this, Zuo uses the vulgar as an analytic to trace how racial, gendered, and cultural i...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Zuo, Mila, 1982- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2022.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Motion pictures.
Motion picture actors and actresses.
Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) in motion pictures.
Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)
Asian American women in motion pictures.
Actresses.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies.
PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism.
Actresses > China.
Motion picture actors and actresses > China.
Motion pictures > United States.
Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) > China.
United States.
China.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Tasting Vulgar Beauty
  • Bitter Medicine, Racial Flavor: Gong Li
  • Salty-Cool: Maggie Cheung and Joan Chen
  • : Pungent Atmospheres: Bai Ling and Tang Wei
  • Sweet and Soft Coupling: Vivian Hsu and Shu Qi
  • Sour Laughter: Charlyne Yi and Ali Wong.

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