Martin / Chow / Harootunian Backward Glances

Contemporary Chinese Cultures and the Female Homoerotic Imaginary
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9263-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 303 Seiten

Reihe: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society

An analysis of the dominant patterns in the representation of erotic and romantic love between women in contemporary film, television, and fiction from China, Hong Kong and Taiwan.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Martin, Fran

Chow, Rey

Harootunian, Harry

Miyoshi, Masao

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies: Homosexualität, LGBTQ+

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Note on Translations and Transliterations xi

Introduction: Love and Remembrance 1

1. Tragic Romance: The Chinese Going-In Story 29

2. Voluble Ellipsis: Second-Wave Schoolgirl Romance in Taiwan and Hong Kong 49

3. Postsocialist Melancholia: "Blue Sky Green Sky" 75

4. No Future: Tomboy Melodrama 93

5. Television as Public Mourning: Taiwan's Sad Young Women 118

6. Critical Presentism: New Chinese Lesbian Cinema 147

Epilogue 180

Appendix: Interview with Shi Tou 187

Character List 199

Notes 205

Filmography 255

Selected Bibliography 259

Index 281

Über Autor(innen)

Fran Martin is a Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies at the University of Melbourne. She is the author of Situating Sexualities: Queer Representation in Taiwanese Fiction, Film, and Public Culture and a co-editor of AsiaPacifiQueer: Rethinking Genders and Sexualities; Embodied Modernities: Corporeality, Representation, and Chinese Cultures; and Mobile Cultures: New Media in Queer Asia, also published by Duke University Press.