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Women Filmmakers and the Visual Politics of Transnational China in the #Metoo Era
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Manoeuvring around mainland China’s censors and pushing back against threats of lawsuits, online harassment, and physical violence, #MeToo activists shed a particularly harsh light on the treatment of women in the cinema and entertainment industries. Focusing on films from the People’s Republic of China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the Chinese diaspora, this book considers how female directors shape Chinese visual politics through the depiction of the look, the stare, the leer, the glare, the glimpse, the glance, the queer and the oppositional gaze in fiction and documentary filmmaking. In the years leading up to and following in the wake of #MeToo, these cosmopolitan women filmmakers offer innovative angles on body image, reproduction, romance, family relations, gender identity, generational differences, female sexuality, sexual violence, sex work, labor migration, career options, minority experiences, media access, feminist activism and political rights within the rapidly changing Chinese cultural orbit.
About the Author:
Gina Marchetti serves as Chair of Humanities and Media Studies, Pratt Institute. Her books include Romance and the "Yellow Peril" Race, Sex and Discursive Strategies in Hollywood Fiction (California, 1993) and Citing China: Politics, Postmodernism, and World Cinema (Hawai'i, 2018).
See the publisher website: Amsterdam University Press
> From the same author:
Chinese Connections (2009)
Critical Perspectives on Film, Identity, and Diaspora
Dir. Tan See-Kam, Peter X. Feng and Gina Marchetti
From Tian'anmen to Times Square (2006)
Transnational China and the Chinese Diaspora on Global Screens, 1989-1997
Romance and the "Yellow Peril" (1994)
Race, Sex, and Discursive Strategies in Hollywood Fiction
Subject: Sociology
> On a related topic:
Victims, Perpetrators and Professionals (2021)
The Representation of Women in Chinese Crime Films
by Tingting Hu
Main Melody Films (2022)
Hong Kong Directors in Mainland China
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