Women in Chinese martial arts films of the new millennium
Subtitle: narrative analyses and gender politics
By: Ya-chen Chen
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Lanham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 295
ISBN-13: 9780739139080; 9780739139103
Subjects: Motion picture producers and directors; Interviews; History and criticism; Women in motion pictures; Screenwriters; Feminism and motion pictures; Martial arts films
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Toward social-cultural and historical readings: "Chinese cinematic martial arts feminism" and its limitation in the narrative of martial arts films; title: Narrative analyses of women and gender concerns in every film. The fox, dragon, and lotus in Crouching tiger, hidden dragon; title: To (en)gender the gendered history in hero; title: There is a beauty in the door(way) of flying daggers; title: Women who do not practice martial arts in Seven swords; title: Cinderella, Snow White, and Sleeping beauty in The promise; title: The Chinese Hamlet's two women and Shakespeare's Chinese sisters: Qing Nü and Waner in The banque; title: Traffic of madwomen in the Chinese royal attic: gender concerns in Curse of the golden flower; title: Integrated analyses about the limitation of feminist emancipation in groups of films. Let's make a wish: martial arts ladies' wishes under the cinematic pen(is) from A touch of zen to Crouching tiger hidden dragon, Hero, House of flying daggers, and The promise; title: Phallocentric teacher-student comoplex: from Legend of the mountain, Crouching tiger hidden dragon, and Hero to Seven swords; title: A Chinese cinematic martial arts room of Pygmalion's own; title: Interviews. Interview with Chung Ling, King Hu's spouse and screenwriter; title: Interview with Pan Hua, a female classmate and peer-director of Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige, Tian Zhuangzhuang, Wu Ziniu, Li Shaohong, Hu Mei, and Peng Xiaolian; title: Interview with Tsai Kuo-Jung, a coplanner and screenwriter of Ang Lee's Crouching tiger hidden dragon; title: Interview with Wang Wei, a judge in the Golden Horse Film Festival.