Remaking Gender and the Family
Subtitle: Perspectives on Contemporary Chinese-Language Film Remakes
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 157
ISBN-13: 9789004363298
Subjects: Sex role in motion pictures; Women in motion pictures; Motion pictures, china
Description: In Remaking Gender and the Family, Sarah Woodland examines the complexities of Chinese-language cinematic remakes. With a particular focus on how changes in representations of gender and the family between two versions of the same film connect with perceived socio-cultural, political and cinematic values within Chinese society, Woodland explores how source texts are reshaped for their new audiences. In this book, she conducts a comparative analysis of two pairs of intercultural and two pairs of intracultural fi lms, each chapter highlighting a different dimension of remakes, and illustrating how changes in gender representations can highlight not just differences in attitudes towards gender across cultures, but also broader concerns relating to culture, genre, auteurism, politics and temporality.