Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.
Contents:
Introduction: transnational feminist reconfiguration of film discourse and women's cinema / Lingzhen Wang -- Female Authorship Negotiated in Different Times, Spaces, and Genres. Socialist Cinema and Female Authorship: Overdetermination and Subjective Revisions in Dong Kena's Small Grass Grows on the Kunlun Mountain (1962) / Lingzhen Wang -- Masochist Men and Normal Women: Tang Shu Shuen and The Arch (1969) / Ching Yau -- Migrating Hearts: The Cultural Geography of Sylvia Chang's Melodrama / Zhen Zhang -- Gendered Voices, Images and Affect. The Voice of History and the Voice of Women: A Study of Huang Shuqin's Women's Films / Xingyang Li ; translated by Thomas Moran -- Post-Taiwan New Cinema Women Directors and Their Films: Auteurs, Images, Language / Yu-Shan Huang and Chun-Chi Wang ; translated by Robin Visser and Thomas Moran -- Affect, Memory, and Trauma Past Tense in Hu Mei's Army Nurse (1985) and Xu Jinglei's Letter from an Unknown Woman (2004) / E. Ann Kaplan -- The Visual Subject and Feminist Cinema. The Encoding of Female Subjectivity: Four Films by China's Fifth-Generation Women Directors / S. Louisa Wei -- From Mao's "Continuous Revolution" to Ning Ying's Perpetual Motion (2005): Sexual Politics, Neoliberalism, and Postmodern China / Gina Marchetti -- Searching for Female Sexuality and Negotiating with Feminism: Li Yu's Film Trilogy / Shuqin Cui -- Female Writing, Performance, and Issues of Cinematic Agency. To Write or to Act, That Is the Question: 1920s to 1930s Shanghai Actress-Writers and the Death of the "New Woman" / Yiman Wang -- Gender, Genre, and Performance in Eileen Chang's Films: Equivocal Contrasts Across the Print-Screen Divide / Yingjin Zhang -- Chu T'ien-wen and the Sotto Voce of Gendered Expression in the Films of Hou Hsiao-Hsien / Christopher Lupke -- To Become an Auteur: The Cinematic Maneuverings of Xu Jinglei / Jingyuan Zhang -- Migration, Diaspora, and Transcultural Practice of Gender and Cinema. In Search of Esther Eng: Border-Crossing Pioneer in Chinese-Language Filmmaking / Kar Law ; translated by Chris Tong -- TransPacific Waves in a Global Sea: Mabel Cheung Yuen-Ting's Cinematic Archive / Staci Ford -- Filming One's Way Home: Clara Law's Letters to Oz / Shiao-Ying Shen.
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