Women Filmmakers and the Visual Politics of Transnational China in the #Metoo Era

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by Gina Marchetti

Type

Studies

Subject

Countries > China

Keywords

China, women, director, censorship, politics

Publishing date

2023

Publisher

Amsterdam University Press

Collection

Critical Asian Cinemas

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Hardcover • 400 pages
6 ¼ x 9 ¼ inches (16 x 23.5 cm)

ISBN

978-94-6372-835-5

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Book Presentation:
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.

About the Author:
Gina Marchetti serves as Chair of Humanities and Media Studies, Pratt Institute. Her books include Romance and the "Yellow Peril" Race, Sex and Discursive Strategies in Hollywood Fiction (California, 1993) and Citing China: Politics, Postmodernism, and World Cinema (Hawai'i, 2018).

See the publisher website: Amsterdam University Press