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04582aam a2200517 i 4500 001 91085E0E664511EDB99D19AA23ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20221117010035 008 210923s2022 ncua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2021030481 020 $a 1478018119 020 $a 9781478018117 020 $a 1478015470 020 $a 9781478015475 035 $a (OCoLC)1253353419 040 $a NcD/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d UKMGB $d NDD $d OCLCO $d NUI $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- $a n-us--- 050 00 $a PN1995.9.C48 $b Z866 2022 082 00 $a 791.43/6522089951 $2 23/eng/20211021 100 1 $a Zuo, Mila, $d 1982- $e author. 245 10 $a Vulgar beauty : $b acting Chinese in the global sensorium / $c Mila Zuo. 264 1 $a Durham : $b Duke University Press, $c 2022. 300 $a ix, 301 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 23 cm 520 $a "Vulgar Beauty offers a new theoretical framework for understanding the affective consumption of screen stardom. Mila Zuo examines mediated encounters with cinematized star beauty, particularly feminine beauty, in contemporary Chinese/American film-from film star Gong Li's performances in post-Mao films of the late 1980s and 90s to Ali Wong's recent stand-up comedy. Zuo proposes vulgarity as a critical methodology through which we can better understand beauty's materiality and the ways that our consumption of beauty has been shaped by dominant gendered, racialized, and colonial aesthetics. The book then uses the Chinese concept of weidao-which roughly translates to flavor-to think through the ways in which Chinese/American beauty is metaphorized as something edible, while at the same time its vulgarity, excessiveness, and materiality eludes or transgresses Western forms of knowing and seeing. Through her readings of salty, sweet, and bitter performances, Zuo shows how Chinese feminine beauty becomes a cinematic invention invested in forms of affective and racialized worldmaking"-- $c Provided by publisher. 520 $a "In Vulgar Beauty Mila Zuo offers a new theorization of cinematic feminine beauty by showing how mediated encounters with Chinese film and popular culture stars produce feelings of Chinese-ness. To illustrate this, Zuo uses the vulgar as an analytic to trace how racial, gendered, and cultural identity is imagined and produced through affect. She frames the vulgar as a characteristic that is experienced through the Chinese concept of weidao, or flavor, in which bitter, salty, pungent, sweet, and sour performances of beauty produce non-Western forms of sexualized and racialized femininity. Analyzing contemporary film and media ranging from actress Gong Li's post-Mao movies of the late 1980s and 1990s to Joan Chen's performance in Twin Peaks to Ali Wong's stand-up comedy specials, Zuo shows how vulgar beauty disrupts Western and colonial notions of beauty. Vulgar beauty, then, becomes the taste of difference. By demonstrating how Chinese feminine beauty becomes a cinematic invention invested in forms of affective racialization, Zuo makes a critical reconsideration of aesthetic theory"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Tasting Vulgar Beauty -- Bitter Medicine, Racial Flavor: Gong Li -- Salty-Cool: Maggie Cheung and Joan Chen -- : Pungent Atmospheres: Bai Ling and Tang Wei -- Sweet and Soft Coupling: Vivian Hsu and Shu Qi -- Sour Laughter: Charlyne Yi and Ali Wong. 650 0 $a Asian American women in motion pictures. 650 0 $a Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) in motion pictures. 650 0 $a Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) $z China. 650 0 $a Motion pictures $z United States. 650 0 $a Motion picture actors and actresses $z China. 650 0 $a Actresses $z China. 650 7 $a Actresses. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00796328 650 7 $a Asian American women in motion pictures. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01902439 650 7 $a Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00922652 650 7 $a Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) in motion pictures. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00922655 650 7 $a Motion picture actors and actresses. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01027096 650 7 $a Motion pictures. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01027285 651 7 $a China. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01206073 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 776 08 $i Online version: $a Zuo, Mila, 1982- $t Vulgar beauty $d Durham : Duke University Press, 2022 $z 9781478022718 $w (DLC) 2021030482 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117023546.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=91085E0E664511EDB99D19AA23ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search