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Women Through the Lens : Gender and Nation in a Century of Chinese Cinema by Cui, Shuqin. is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Gender and nation have often served as narrative subjects and visual tropes in Chinese cinema. The intersections between the two that occur in cinematic representation, however, have received little critical attention. Women through the Lens raises the question of how gender, especially the image of woman, acts as a visual and discursive sign in the creation of the nation-state in twentieth-century China. Tracing the history of Chinese cinema through the last hundred years from the perspective of transnational feminism, Shuqin Cui reveals how women have been granted a "privileged visibility" on screen while being denied discursive positions as subjects. In addition, her careful attention to the visual language system of cinema shows how "woman" has served as the site for the narration of nation in the context of China's changing social and political climate. Placing gender and nation in a historical framework, the book first shows how early productions had their roots in shadow plays, a popular form of public entertainment. These films were soon supplanted by cinematic narratives meant to further the causes of social reform and strident nationalism. As Leftist filmmaking turned t

Who reads Women Through the Lens : Gender and Nation in a Century of Chinese Cinema?

Author

Cui, Shuqin.

Publisher

University of Hawaiʻi Press;University of Hawaii Press

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9780824832964

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Performing Arts, History