Revisiting Women's Cinema : Feminism, Socialism, and Mainstream Culture in Modern China Paperback / softback
by Lingzhen Wang
Part of the A Camera Obscura book series
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In Revisiting Women’s Cinema, Lingzhen Wang ponders the roots of contemporary feminist stagnation and the limits of both commercial mainstream and elite minor cultures by turning to socialist women filmmakers in modern China.
She foregrounds their sociopolitical engagements, critical interventions, and popular artistic experiments, offering a new conception of socialist and postsocialist feminisms, mainstream culture, and women’s cinema.
Wang highlights the films of Wang Ping and Dong Kena in the 1950s and 1960s and Zhang Nuanxin and Huang Shuqin in the 1980s and 1990s to unveil how they have been profoundly misread through extant research paradigms entrenched in Western Cold War ideology, post-second-wave cultural feminism, and post-Mao intellectual discourses.
Challenging received interpretations, she elucidates how socialist feminism and culture were conceptualized and practiced in relation to China’s search not only for national independence and economic development but also for social emancipation, proletarian culture, and socialist internationalism.
Wang calls for a critical reevaluation of historical materialism, socialist feminism, and popular culture to forge an integrated emancipatory vision for future transnational feminist and cultural practices.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:312 pages, 18 illustrations
- Publisher:Duke University Press
- Publication Date:22/01/2021
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- ISBN:9781478010807
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Out of StockMore expected soonContact us for further information
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:312 pages, 18 illustrations
- Publisher:Duke University Press
- Publication Date:22/01/2021
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- ISBN:9781478010807