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

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1、Chinesecinema(Continuedfromfrontflap)CuiGenderandnationhaveoftenservedasnarrative“ShuqinCui’sbookisthefirstofitskind:astudyofthecomplexdiscursiveinteractionbetweenWomenThroughtheLenssubjectsandvisualtropesinChinesecinema.TheFilmmakersbecamekeenlyawareofvisualityasagenderandnationinChinesef

2、ilm.Arguingforcefullyandwithcarefulattentiontothefilmsasintersectionsbetweenthetwothatoccurincine-languagesystemastheyexperimentedwithmodesmaticrepresentation,however,havereceivedlittleofrepresentation.Cuidocumentsanddiscussesfilms,shecontendsthatimagesofwomenhavebeenappropriatedbyChinesef

3、ilmmakersnotonlyGenderandNationinaCenturycriticalattention.WomenThroughtheLensraisesthecinematicspectacleofwomanasessentialtoforthenation-buildingprojectandclassstruggle,butforintellectualendssuchasculturalcritiqueofChineseCinemathequestionofhowgender,especiallytheimageofsuchwidelypopularf

4、ilmsasChenKaige’sFarewellandnationalallegory.Fromleftistfilmsofthe1930stotheHongKongpostmoderncinemaofthewoman,actsasavisualanddiscursivesignintheMyConcubineandZhangYimou’sJuDou.Inthesepresent,CuishowshowChinesefilmmakers,withtheexceptionofahandfulofrecentfemalecreationofthenation-stateint

5、wentieth-centuryfilms,thescreenimageoftheChinesewomanisdirectors,haveallbutsilencedfemalesubjectivityevenastheydrawattentiontowomen’soppres-China.TracingthehistoryofChinesecinemabothnationalizedandsexualized,andforinterna-throughthelasthundredyearsfromtheperspec-tionalaudiencessheistheexot

6、icanderoticother,sion.Thisisafeministstudy,butonethattakesawiselyskepticalattitudetowardtheapplicationtiveoftransnationalfeminism,ShuqinCuirevealstheimageofChina.Finally,theauthorbringsaofWesternfeministassumptionstotheChineseculturalcontext.WomenThroughtheLensisahowwomenhavebeengranteda“p

7、rivilegedvisi-feministperspectivetotheissuesofgenderandbookthatallscholarsofgenderrepresentationinfilmwillwanttoread.”—KirkDenton,OhioWomenThroughtheLensbility”on-screenwhilebeingdenieddiscursivenationbyturningherattentiontowomendirectorsStateUniversitypositio