Queer Asian cinema : shadows in the shade /
Published simultaneously as Journal Of Homosexuality, volume 39, number 3/4 (2000), this collection brings together experts in film-making and movie criticism to examine the aesthetics and politics of homosexuality in Asian films. From the subversive sadomasochism of Japan's "pink films&qu...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Harrington Park Press,
[2000]
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| Summary: | Published simultaneously as Journal Of Homosexuality, volume 39, number 3/4 (2000), this collection brings together experts in film-making and movie criticism to examine the aesthetics and politics of homosexuality in Asian films. From the subversive sadomasochism of Japan's "pink films" to the hard-boiled world of Hong Kong's gangster movies, Queer Asian Cinema analyzes and discusses attitudes toward homosexuality in the full spectrum of Asian film. In addition to studies of the representation of identified gay men, lesbians, and transgendered individuals, it reveals the hidden homoerotic subtext of otherwise conventional films. Queer Asian Cinema: Shadows in the Shade examines diverse aspects of Asian films, including: the political and psychological links between feudal and sadomasochist hierarchies; the inevitable punishment of homoerotic bonds in gangster films; the integration of the homosexual couple into the Confucian family structure in Korean films; the complexities of cross-gender casting; the differences between transvestism and cross-dressing; and the definition of male genitalia as obscene."--Publisher. |
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| Item Description: | "Co-published simultaneously as Journal of homosexuality, volume 39, numbers 3/4, 2000." The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy was acquired as part of The Don Kelly Research Collection of Gay Literature and Culture. |
| Physical Description: | xx, 346 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1560231394 9781560231394 1560231408 9781560231400 |