Book description
The first of its kind in English, this collection explores twenty one well established and lesser known female filmmakers from mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the Chinese diaspora. Sixteen scholars illuminate these filmmakers' negotiations of local and global politics, cinematic representation, and issues of gender and sexuality, covering works…
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In December 2024, I got an opportunity to present at a workshop in Leiden University about women's representation in Taiwanese-language cinema in 1950s-1970s. This makes me think more deeply about women and cinema, women filmmakers and cinema, and what women's cinema may imply. One of the books I consulted and enjoyed is Chinese Women's Cinema: Transnational Contexts (2011). I am surprised and delighted to discover that there are strong Taiwan/Republic of China (ROC) elements in this book.
This discovery is important in that the female filmmakers, writers, and works analysed in this book are all prominent and outstanding in their…
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