Cui: Women Through the Lens: CL
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Women through the Lens raises the question of how gender, especially the image of woman, acts as a visual and discursive sign in the creation of the nation-state in twentieth-century China. Tracing the history of Chinese cinema through the last hundred years from the perspective of transnational feminism, Shuqin Cui reveals how women have been granted a privileged visibility on screen while being denied discutsive positions as subjects. In addition, her careful attention to the visual language system of cinema shows how woman has served as the site for the narration of nation in the context of China's changing social and political climate. Placing gender and nation in a historical framework, the book first shows how early productions had their roots in shadowplays, a popular form of public entertainment. In examining the Red Classics of socialist cinema as a mass cultural form, the book shows how the utopian vision of emancipating the entire proletariat, women included, produced a collective ideology that declared an end to gender difference. Cui then documents and discusses the cinematic spectacle of woman as essential to such widely popular films as Chen Kaige's Farewell M
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0824825322
ISBN13:9780824825324
Release Date:January 2003
Publisher:University of Hawaii Press
Length:304 Pages
Weight:1.55 lbs.
Dimensions:1.1" x 6.2" x 9.4"
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