Revisiting Women's Cinema: Feminism, Socialism, and Mainstream Culture in Modern China
(Part of the a Camera Obscura book Series)
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In Revisiting Women's Cinema, Lingzhen Wang ponders the roots of contemporary feminist stagnation and the limits of both commercial mainstream and elite minor cultures by turning to socialist women filmmakers. She particularly foregrounds their sociopolitical engagements, critical interventions, and popular artistic experiments in modern China, offering a new conception of socialist and postsocialist feminisms, mainstream culture, and women's cinema. Wang highlights the films of Wang Ping and Dong Kena in the 1950s and 1960s and Zhang Nuanxin and Huang Shuqin in the 1980s and 1990s to unveil how they have been grossly misread through extant research paradigms entrenched in Western Cold War ideology, post-second-wave cultural feminism, and post-Mao intellectual discourses. Challenging received interpretations, she elucidates how socialist feminism and culture were conceptualized and practiced in relation to China's search not only for national independence and economic development but also for social emancipation, proletarian culture, and socialist internationalism. Wang calls for a critical reevaluation of historical materialism, socialist feminism, and popular culture to forge an integrated emancipatory vision for future transnational feminist and cultural practices.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1478010800
ISBN13:9781478010807
Release Date:January 2021
Publisher:Duke University Press
Length:312 Pages
Weight:0.91 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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