Red Detachment of Women
Revolutionary Melodrama and Alternative Socialist Imaginations
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3893443 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Xiao Liu (0000-0001-6365-1191), Liu Xiao (0000-0003-0252-1566, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 116-141 |
| Publication date | 2015-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | differences (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1040-7391 • E-ISSN: 1527-1986 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/10407391-3340396 |
| OpenAlex | W2263588666 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 33 |
This essay focuses on the cinematic form of revolutionary melodrama, or, more specifically, on alterations made to family melodrama in the construction of the big socialist family as an imagined social space. Reading Red Detachment of Women (1961) in the tradition of family melodrama, the author examines the ways the film transforms the genre and conjures up an alternative socialist space, which also provides room for more fluid gender formations that radically redefine such notions as women and femininity. This essay also uncovers in the film an affective space contiguous with both the private and the public, suggesting a sort of collectivity that neither presumes autonomous individuals nor is subsumed to a unitary state power
Aesthetics · Art · Femininity · Literature · Political science · Sociology · Unitary state · Cinema and Media Studies · Gender Studies · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Law · Philosophy · Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism
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Unequal Metrics
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| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |