Backward Glances - Contemporary Chinese Cultures and the Female Homoerotic Imaginary

Informationen zum Autor Fran Martin is a Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies at the University of Melbourne. She is the author of Situating Sexualities: Queer Representation in Taiwanese Fiction, Film, and Public Culture and a co-editor of AsiaPacifiQueer: Rethinking Genders and Sexualities; Embodied Modernities: Corporeality, Representation, and Chinese Cultures; and Mobile Cultures: New Media in Queer Asia, also published by Duke University Press. Klappentext Examining a broad range of media (texts, film, television soap operas, comics, pop music, internet) this book studies lesbian representation in the contemporary Chinese mass cultures that circulate between the PRC, Taiwan and Hong Kong. Zusammenfassung An analysis of the dominant patterns in the representation of erotic and romantic love between women in contemporary film! television! and fiction from China! Hong Kong and Taiwan. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments ix Note on Translations and Transliterations xi Introduction: Love and Remembrance 1 1. Tragic Romance: The Chinese Going-In Story 29 2. Voluble Ellipsis: Second-Wave Schoolgirl Romance in Taiwan and Hong Kong 49 3. Postsocialist Melancholia: "Blue Sky Green Sky" 75 4. No Future: Tomboy Melodrama 93 5. Television as Public Mourning: Taiwan's Sad Young Women 118 6. Critical Presentism: New Chinese Lesbian Cinema 147 Epilogue 180 Appendix: Interview with Shi Tou 187 Character List 199 Notes 205 Filmography 255 Selected Bibliography 259 Index 281

Product details

• Authors: Fran Martin, MARTIN FRAN
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.04.2010
• EAN: 9780822346685
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-4668-5
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society; Asia-Pacific, Culture, Politic; Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society; Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politic
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories