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Celluloid comrades : representations of male homosexuality in contemporary Chinese cinemas / Song Hwee Lim.
Van Pelt Library PN1995.9.H55 L56 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lim, Song Hwee, 1965-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Male homosexuality in motion pictures.
- Motion pictures--China--History.
- Motion pictures.
- China.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 247 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, [2006]
- Summary:
- Celluloid Comrades offers a cogent analytical introduction to the representation of male homosexuality in Chinese cinemas within the last decade. It posits that representations of male homosexuality in Chinese film have been polyphonic and multifarious, posing a challenge to monolithic and essentialized constructions of both "Chineseness" and "homosexuality." Tracing the engendering conditions within the film industries of China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, Song Hwee Lim argues that the emergence of Chinese cinemas in the international scene since the 1980s created a public sphere in which representations of marginal sexualities could flourish in its interstices. Examining the politics of representation in the age of multiculturalism through debates about the films, Lim calls for a rethinking of the limits and hegemony of gay liberationist discourse prevalent in current scholarship and film criticism. He provides in-depth analyses of key films and auteurs, reading them within contexts as varied as premodern, transgender practice in Chinese theater to postmodern, diasporic forms of sexualities.
- Contents:
- Screening homosexuality
- The burden of representation : Ang Lee's The wedding banquet
- The uses of femininity : Chen Kaige's Farewell my concubine and Zhang Yuan's East palace, west palace
- Travelling sexualities : Wong Kar-wai's Happy together
- Confessing desire : the poetics of Tsai Ming-liang's queer cinema
- Fragments of darkness : Stanley Kwan as gay director.
- Notes:
- Filmography: pages 211-215.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-239) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0824829093
- 0824830776
- OCLC:
- 67361297
- Publisher Number:
- 9780824829094
- 9780824830779
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