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Women Filmmakers and the Visual Politics of Transnational China in the #MeToo Era / Gina Marchetti.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Critical Asian Cinemas ; 5Publisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2023]Copyright date: ©2023Description: 1 online resource (400 p.)Content type:
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  • 9789048553990
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.4302/3082 23/eng/20231221
LOC classification:
  • PN1995.9.W6
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Critical Asian Cinemas -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- A Note on Romanization -- 1. Introduction : #MeToo and the Visual Politics of Transnational Chinese Cinema -- 2. The Look and the Stare : Looked Over and Overlooked in The Truth About Beauty (2014), My Way (2012), and Unfinished (2013) -- 3. The Leer and the Glare : Voyeurism and State Surveillance in Hooligan Sparrow (2016) and Angels Wear White (2017) -- 4. A Glimpse of the Glance : Women Scrutinize Men in Female Directors (2012) and Girls Always Happy (2018) -- 5. The Queer Gaze across the Gay-Straight Generational Divide : Small Talk (2016) and A Dog Barking at the Moon (2019) -- 6. The Alienated Gaze and the Activist Eye : Gender, Class, and Politics in Lotus (2012) and Outcry and Whisper (2020) -- 7. Oppositional Optics: The View from Hong Kong -- 8. From Activism to Exile : Our Youth in Taiwan (2018) and To Singapore, with Love (2013) -- 9. Viral Visions : The Pandemic Archive in Miasma, Plants, Export Paintings (2017) and Many Undulating Things (2019) -- 10. Conclusion : The View from the Chinese Diaspora in The Farewell (2019) -- Bilingual Filmography -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: 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.
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Frontmatter -- Critical Asian Cinemas -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- A Note on Romanization -- 1. Introduction : #MeToo and the Visual Politics of Transnational Chinese Cinema -- 2. The Look and the Stare : Looked Over and Overlooked in The Truth About Beauty (2014), My Way (2012), and Unfinished (2013) -- 3. The Leer and the Glare : Voyeurism and State Surveillance in Hooligan Sparrow (2016) and Angels Wear White (2017) -- 4. A Glimpse of the Glance : Women Scrutinize Men in Female Directors (2012) and Girls Always Happy (2018) -- 5. The Queer Gaze across the Gay-Straight Generational Divide : Small Talk (2016) and A Dog Barking at the Moon (2019) -- 6. The Alienated Gaze and the Activist Eye : Gender, Class, and Politics in Lotus (2012) and Outcry and Whisper (2020) -- 7. Oppositional Optics: The View from Hong Kong -- 8. From Activism to Exile : Our Youth in Taiwan (2018) and To Singapore, with Love (2013) -- 9. Viral Visions : The Pandemic Archive in Miasma, Plants, Export Paintings (2017) and Many Undulating Things (2019) -- 10. Conclusion : The View from the Chinese Diaspora in The Farewell (2019) -- Bilingual Filmography -- Bibliography -- Index

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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