TY - BOOK AU - Marchetti,Gina TI - Women Filmmakers and the Visual Politics of Transnational China in the #MeToo Era T2 - Critical Asian Cinemas SN - 9789048553990 AV - PN1995.9.W6 U1 - 791.4302/3082 23/eng/20231221 PY - 2023///] CY - Amsterdam PB - Amsterdam University Press KW - MeToo movement KW - China KW - Motion pictures KW - Political aspects KW - Motion pictures, Chinese KW - Women motion picture producers and directors KW - Art and Material Culture KW - East Asia and North East Asia KW - Film Studies KW - Film, Media, and Communication KW - Gender and Sexuality Studies KW - Media Studies KW - PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / Direction & Production KW - bisacsh KW - Feminist Visual Theory, Women Filmmakers, Transnational Chinese Cinema, the Cinematic Gaze N1 - 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; restricted access N2 - 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048553990?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9789048553990 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9789048553990/original ER -