Women Filmmakers and the Visual Politics of Transnational China in the #MeToo Era (1) (Critical Asian Cinemas)

By: Gina Marchetti

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Synopsis: 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.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 400 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781040789865
Related ISBNs:: 9781040776872, 9781041190738, 9781003709657, 9789463728355
Publisher:: Taylor & Francis
Date of Addition:: 10/01/25
Copyrighted By:: Gina Marchetti / Taylor & Francis Group
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Entertainment, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Social Studies
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.