Cui: Women Through the Lens: CL

by Shuqin Cui

Book Overview

Women through the Lens raises the question of how gender, especially the image of woman, acts as a visual and discursive sign in the creation of the nation-state in twentieth-century China. Tracing the history of Chinese cinema through the last hundred years from the perspective of transnational feminism, Shuqin Cui reveals how women have been granted a privileged visibility on screen while being denied discutsive positions as subjects. In addition,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824825322
• ISBN13: 9780824825324
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.4"