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Sounding the modern woman : the songstress in Chinese cinema / Jean Ma.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ma, Jean, 1972-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motion pictures--China--History.
- Motion pictures.
- Women singers in motion pictures.
- Women singers--China.
- Women singers.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (297 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- <div>Jean Ma shows how the rise and domination of singing actresses-or songstresses-in Chinese cinema attests to the changing roles of women in urban modernity, the complex symbiosis between the film and music industries, and the distinctive gendering of lyrical expression.</div>
- Contents:
- A songstress is born
- From Shanghai to Hong Kong
- The little wildcat
- The mambo girl
- Carmen, Camille, and the undoing of women Coda
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780822375623
- 0822375621
- OCLC:
- 1139357973
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