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Queer representations in Chinese-language film and the cultural landscape / Shi-Yan Chao.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chao, Shi-Yan, (Film critic), author.
- Series:
- Asian visual cultures.
- Asian visual cultures
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motion pictures, Chinese.
- Homosexuality and motion pictures--China.
- Homosexuality and motion pictures.
- Homosexuality in motion pictures.
- Sexual minorities in motion pictures.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (411 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2020.
- Summary:
- This book provides a cultural history of queer representations in Chinese-language film and media, negotiated by locally produced knowledge, local cultural agency, and lived histories. Incorporating a wide range of materials in both English and Chinese, this interdisciplinary project investigates the processes through which Chinese tongzhi/queer imaginaries are articulated, focusing on four main themes: the Chinese familial system, Chinese opera, camp aesthetic, and documentary impulse. Chao's discursive analysis is rooted in and advances genealogical inquiries: a non-essentialist intervention into the Chinese" idea of filial piety, a transcultural perspective on the contested genre of film melodrama, a historical investigation of the local articulations of mass camp and gay camp, and a transnational inquiry into the different formats of documentary. This book is a must for anyone exploring the cultural history of Chinese tongzhi/queer through the lens of transcultural media.
- Contents:
- Introduction : processing tongzhi/queer imaginaries
- The Chinese queer diasporic imaginary
- Two stage sisters : comrades, almost a love story
- Mass camp in contemporary Hong Kong cinema
- Toward an aesthetic of tongzhi camp
- Coming out of the box, lalas with DV cameras
- Performing gender, performing documentary in postsocialist China.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 20 Nov 2020).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-003-70217-1
- 9781003702177
- OCLC:
- 1191777800
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