Women through the lens:gender and nation in a century of Chinese cinema

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Cui Shuqin
Published: University of Hawaiʿi Press,
Publisher Address: Honolulu
Publication Dates: c2003.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
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Carrier Form: xxvi, 304 p.: ill. ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 0824825322 (acid-free paper)
9780824825324 (acid-free paper)
0824832965
9780824832964
Index Number: J90
CLC: J90-05
J909.2
Call Number: J909.2/C966
Contents: Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-297) and index.
Part I. Early production. From shadow-play to a national cinema ; Reconstructing history: the (im)possible engagement between feminism and postmodernism in Stanley Kwan's Center stage -- Part II. Socialist cinema. Constructing and consuming the revolutionary narratives ; Gender politics and socialist discourse in Xie Jin's The red detachment of women -- Part III. The new wave. Screening China: national allegories and international receptions ; The search for male masculinity and sexuality in Zhang Yimou's Ju dou ; Subjected body and gendered identity: female impersonation in Chen Kaige's Far