Women filmmakers and the visual politics of transnational China in the #MeToo Era /

"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'...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Marchetti, Gina (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Language Notes:	Bilingual filmography includes Chinese ideographic characters and their romanization.
Published:	Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2024]
Series:	Critical Asian cinemas.
Subjects:	Motion pictures > Political aspects > China. Women motion picture producers and directors > China. Women in the motion picture industry > China. MeToo movement > China. Cinéma > Aspect politique > Chine. Productrices et réalisatrices de cinéma > Chine. Femmes dans l'industrie cinématographique > Chine. Mouvement #MoiAussi > Chine. Individual film directors, film-makers. Media studies. PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / Direction & Production. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies. MeToo movement Motion pictures > Political aspects Women in the motion picture industry Women motion picture producers and directors China Film history, theory or criticism. Gender studies: women and girls. Film, Media, and Communication FMC Art and Material Culture ART & MAT East Asia and North East Asia EA & NE ASIA Film Studies FILM Gender and Sexuality Studies GEND & SEXU Media Studies MEDIA Feminist Visual Theory, Women Filmmakers, Transnational Chinese Cinema, the Cinematic Gaze

Table of Contents:

Introduction : #MeToo and the visual politics of transnational Chinese cinema
The look and the stare : looked over and overlooked in The truth about beauty (2014), My way (2012), and Unfinished (2013)
The leer and the glare: voyeurism and state surveillance in Hooligan sparrow (2016) and Angels wear white (2017)
A glimpse of the glance : women scrutinize men in Female directors (2012) and Girls always happy (2018)
The queer gaze across the gay-straight generational divide : Small talk (2017) and A dog barking at the moon (2019)
The alienated gaze and the activist eye : gender, class, and politics in Lotus (2012) and Outcry and whisper (2020)
Oppositional optics : the view from Hong Kong
From activism to exile : Our youth in Taiwan (2018) and To Singapore, with love (2013)
Viral visions : the pandemic archive in Miasma, plants, export paintings (2017) and Many undulating things (2019) - Conclusion : The view from the Chinese diaspora in The farewell (2019).