Wang Revisiting Women's Cinema

Feminism, Socialism, and Mainstream Culture in Modern China
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-4780-1233-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 307 Seiten

Reihe: A Camera Obscura Book

Lingzhen Wang examines the work of Chinese women filmmakers of the Mao and post-Mao eras to theorize socialist and postsocialist feminism, mainstream culture, and women's cinema in modern China.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wang, Lingzhen

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Cover Contents Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Socialist Feminism and Socialist Culture Reconsidered: Institutionalized Practice, Proletarian Public Space, and Experimental Mainstream Cinema 2. Articulating Embedded Feminist Agency in Socialist Mainstream Cinema: Wang Ping and The Story of Liubao Village (1957) 3. Socialist Experimentalism, Critical Revision, and Gender Difference: Dong Kena’s Small Grass Grows on the Kunlun Mountains (1962) 4. Feminist Practice after Mao: Independence, Sexual Difference, and the Universal Model 5. Film Theory, Avant-Gardism, and the Rise of Masculine Aesthetics: Chinese Mainstream Cinema in the 1980s 6. Alternative Experimental Cinema: Zhang Nuanxin’s Socially Committed Mainstream Film Practice of the 1980s 7. The Black Velvet Aesthetic: Universal Cultural Feminism and Chinese Neotraditionalism in Huang Shuqin’s Woman Demon Human (1987) Notes Bibliography B C E F G H L M P S V W Z

Über Autor(innen)

Lingzhen Wang is Professor of East Asian Studies at Brown University, author of Personal Matters: Women's Autobiographical Practice in Twentieth-Century China, and editor of Chinese Women's Cinema: Transnational Contexts.