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 discutsive positions as subjects. In addition, her careful attention to the visual language system of cinema shows how ...
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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 discutsive 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 shadowplays, a popular form of public entertainment. In examining the ""Red Classics"" of socialist cinema as a mass cultural form, the book shows how the utopian vision of emancipating the entire proletariat, women included, produced a collective ideology that declared an end to gender difference. Cui then documents and discusses the cinematic spectacle of woman as essential to such widely popular films as Chen Kaige's ""Farewell My Concubine"" and Zhang Yimou's ""Ju Do."" Finally, the author brings a feminist perspective to the issues of gender and nation by turning her attention to women directors and their self-representations.
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Autographed. 8vo. 304 pp. Very Good. Hard Cover. Green cloth covered boards. Dust Jacket Very Good. Minor shelf wear, especially on corners. B&W plates. This work raises the question of how gender acts as a visual and discursive sign in the creation of the nation-state in 20th century China. Shuqin Cui reveals how women have been granted a "privileged visibility" on screen while being denied discursive positions as subjects. ISBN: 9780824825324 9780824832964. Provenance: from the Estate of Judy Stone (1924-2017), The San Francisco Chronicle's movie critic who for two decades was a passionate and articulate advocate for the world of cinema outside Hollywood. Judy Stone started at the San Francisco Chronicle in 1961, putting in 10 years as editor of the Datebook section. She began reviewing films for the paper in 1971, favoring arthouse films. She was the youngest of four politically minded children whose eldest brother was the great reporter and gadfly I. F. Stone. She won the Novikoff Award given for "enhancing the public's appreciation of world cinema." Among her publications are "The Mystery of B. Traven" and "Eye on the World, " a collection of her interviews with filmmakers from the 1960s to the 1990s.
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