Chinese women's cinema
Subtitle: transnational contexts
By: edited by Lingzhen Wang
Series: Film and culture; Film and culture
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 430
ISBN-13: 9780231156745; 9780231156752; 9780231527446
Subjects: Motion pictures; Women motion picture producers and directors; Women in motion pictures; History and criticism; Feminist films; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: transnational feminist reconfiguration of film discourse and women's cinema / Lingzhen Wang; title: Female Authorship Negotiated in Different Times, Spaces, and Genres. Socialist Cinema and Female Authorship: Overdetermination and Subjective Revisions in Dong Kena's Small Grass Grows on the Kunlun Mountain (1962) / Lingzhen Wang; title: Masochist Men and Normal Women: Tang Shu Shuen and The Arch (1969) / Ching Yau; title: Migrating Hearts: The Cultural Geography of Sylvia Chang's Melodrama / Zhen Zhang; title: Gendered Voices, Images and Affect. The Voice of History and the Voice of Women: A Study of Huang Shuqin's Women's Films / Xingyang Li ; translated by Thomas Moran; title: Post-Taiwan New Cinema Women Directors and Their Films: Auteurs, Images, Language / Yu-Shan Huang and Chun-Chi Wang ; translated by Robin Visser and Thomas Moran; title: Affect, Memory, and Trauma Past Tense in Hu Mei's Army Nurse (1985) and Xu Jinglei's Letter from an Unknown Woman (2004) / E. Ann Kaplan; title: The Visual Subject and Feminist Cinema. The Encoding of Female Subjectivity: Four Films by China's Fifth-Generation Women Directors / S. Louisa Wei; title: From Mao's "Continuous Revolution" to Ning Ying's Perpetual Motion (2005): Sexual Politics, Neoliberalism, and Postmodern China / Gina Marchetti; title: Searching for Female Sexuality and Negotiating with Feminism: Li Yu's Film Trilogy / Shuqin Cui; title: Female Writing, Performance, and Issues of Cinematic Agency. To Write or to Act, That Is the Question: 1920s to 1930s Shanghai Actress-Writers and the Death of the "New Woman" / Yiman Wang; title: Gender, Genre, and Performance in Eileen Chang's Films: Equivocal Contrasts Across the Print-Screen Divide / Yingjin Zhang; title: Chu T'ien-wen and the Sotto Voce of Gendered Expression in the Films of Hou Hsiao-Hsien / Christopher Lupke; title: To Become an Auteur: The Cinematic Maneuverings of Xu Jinglei / Jingyuan Zhang; title: Migration, Diaspora, and Transcultural Practice of Gender and Cinema. In Search of Esther Eng: Border-Crossing Pioneer in Chinese-Language Filmmaking / Kar Law ; translated by Chris Tong; title: TransPacific Waves in a Global Sea: Mabel Cheung Yuen-Ting's Cinematic Archive / Staci Ford; title: Filming One's Way Home: Clara Law's Letters to Oz / Shiao-Ying Shen.