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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818618203321

Autore

Chen Ya-chen

Titolo

Women in Chinese martial arts films of the new millennium : narrative analyses and gender politics / / Ya-chen Chen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, : Lexington Books, 2012

ISBN

1-280-77891-1

9786613689306

0-7391-3910-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (313 p.)

Disciplina

791.43/6522

Soggetti

Martial arts films - China - History and criticism

Feminism and motion pictures

Motion picture producers and directors - China

Screenwriters - China

Women in motion pictures

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Toward social-cultural and historical readings: "Chinese cinematic martial arts feminism" and its limitation in the narrative of martial arts films -- Narrative analyses of women and gender concerns in every film. The fox, dragon, and lotus in Crouching tiger, hidden dragon -- To (en)gender the gendered history in hero -- There is a beauty in the door(way) of flying daggers -- Women who do not practice martial arts in Seven swords -- Cinderella, Snow White, and Sleeping beauty in The promise -- The Chinese Hamlet's two women and Shakespeare's Chinese sisters: Qing Nü and Waner in The banque -- Traffic of madwomen in the Chinese royal attic: gender concerns in Curse of the golden flower -- Integrated analyses about the limitation of feminist emancipation in groups of films. Let's make a wish: martial arts ladies' wishes under the cinematic pen(is) from A touch of zen to Crouching tiger hidden dragon, Hero, House of flying daggers, and The promise -- Phallocentric teacher-student comoplex: from Legend of the mountain, Crouching tiger hidden dragon, and Hero to Seven swords -- A Chinese cinematic martial arts room of Pygmalion's own --



Interviews. Interview with Chung Ling, King Hu's spouse and screenwriter -- Interview with Pan Hua, a female classmate and peer-director of Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige, Tian Zhuangzhuang, Wu Ziniu, Li Shaohong, Hu Mei, and Peng Xiaolian -- Interview with Tsai Kuo-Jung, a coplanner and screenwriter of Ang Lee's Crouching tiger hidden dragon -- Interview with Wang Wei, a judge in the Golden Horse Film Festival.

Sommario/riassunto

Women and Gender in Chinese Martial Arts Films of the New Millennium, by Ya-chen Chen, examines underexposed gender issues in more recent films, focusing on the contradictory feminism in the film narratives. Through the lens of Chinese martial arts films, Chen delves into ""Chinese cinematic martial arts feminism,"" highlighting the glass ceiling which marks the maximal exercise of feminism which the patriarchal order is willing to accept.