Queer Representations in Chinese-language Film and the Cultural Landscape

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ID9359294
AuthorsShi-Yan Chao (0000-0002-2752-1880, corresponding author)
Year2021
Pages434
Publication date2021-01-29
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueQueer Representations in Chinese-Language Film and the Cultural Landscape (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.5117/9789462988033
OpenAlexW3083208662
Open LibraryOL29511574M
ISBN9789462988033
LanguageEN
Citations received5

Queer Representations in Chinese-language Film and the Cultural Landscape provides a cultural history of queer representations in Chinese-language film and media, negotiated by locally produced knowledge, local cultural agency, and lived histories. Incorporating a wide range of materials in both English and Chinese, this interdisciplinary project investigates the processes through which Chinese tongzhi/queer imaginaries are articulated, focusing on four main themes: the Chinese familial system, Chinese opera, camp aesthetic, and documentary impulse. Chao’s discursive analysis is rooted in and advances genealogical inquiries: a non-essentialist intervention into the "Chinese" idea of filial piety, a transcultural perspective on the contested genre of film melodrama, a historical investigation of the local articulations of mass camp and gay camp, and a transnational inquiry into the different formats of documentary. This book is a must for anyone exploring the cultural history of Chinese tongzhi/queer through the lens of transcultural media

Aesthetics · Art · Indigenous · Queer · Queer theory · Sociology · Gender Studies · Philippine History and Culture · Gay and lesbian studies · History · Homosexuality in motion pictures · Mass media · Motion pictures

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