Women filmmakers and the visual politics of transnational China in the #MeToo era / Gina Marchetti.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Marchetti, Gina, author.

Series:

Critical Asian cinemas .

Critical Asian cinemas

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women motion picture producers and directors--China.

Women motion picture producers and directors.

MeToo movement--China.

MeToo movement.

Motion pictures, Chinese.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (399 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2024.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Introduction: #MeToo and the visual politics of transnational Chinese cinema

The look and the stare : looked over and overlooked in The truth about beauty (2014), My way (2012), and Unfinished (2013)

The leer and the glare : voyeurism and state surveillance in Hooligan sparrow (2016) and Angels wear white (2017)

A glimpse of the chance : women scrutinize men in Female directors (2012) and Girls always happy (2018)

The queer gaze across the queer-straight generational divide : Small talk (2016) and A dog barking at the moon (2019)

The alienated gaze and the activist eye : gender, politics and class in Lotus (2012) and Outcry and whisper (2020)

Oppositional optics : the view from Hong Kong

From activism to exile : Our youth in Taiwan (2018) and To Singapore, with love (2013)

Viral visions : the pandemic archive in Miasma, plants, export paintings (2017) and Many undulating things (2019)

Conclusion: The view from the Chinese diaspora in The farewell (2019).

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 21 Feb 2024).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-003-70965-6

1-04-077687-6

1-04-078986-2

90-485-5399-7

9781003709657

OCLC:

1390663806