Women Filmmakers and the Visual Politics of Transnational China in the #metoo...

by Marchetti, Gina

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Women Filmmakers and the Visual Politics of Transnational China in the #metoo Era, Hardcover by Marchetti, Gina, ISBN 946372835X, ISBN-13 9789463728355, Like New Used, Free P&P in the UK 1. Detailed case studies of specific motion pictures by established and emerging women filmmakers in order to examine how they create cultural meaning in their depiction of women in relation to changing perceptions of China in the twenty-first century. 2. Analysis of female filmmakers' critiques of China's rise as they document and dramatize issues of concern to women such as reproductive rights, gender violence, lesbian visibility, femininity and consumerism, body image, labor migration, trafficking, domesticity, access to the media, and women's participation in political activism. 3. Interrogation of various theories of gender and sexuality in relation to the visual politics of contemporary Chinese cinema by analyzing the ways in which women filmmakers critique the look, leer, glare, glance and other dimensions of the gaze on screen. 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 star

• ISBN: 9789463728355
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