The Taiwanese Cinematization Of Feminine Writing

Author : YA-CHEN. CHEN
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2022-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1527581322

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The Taiwanese Cinematization of Feminine Writing by YA-CHEN. CHEN Pdf

A number of Taiwanese scholars gate-kept, filtered, selected, and strategized to transfer Luce Irigaray's, Hélène Cixous's, and Julia Kristeva's French feminist theories into their own national context by exerting their cross-lingual and cross-cultural academic power in the 1990s. They also reshaped, localized, acculturated, marketed, and Taiwanized these French feminist theories, which was essential for Taiwanese academia. According to French feminist literary theories, écriture féminine ("feminine writing") refers to women's own written self-expression used to escape from the patriarchal language system. Beginning with a description of the acculturation of French feminist literary theories, this book highlights how women's own spoken voices or autobiographical written expressions appear in Taiwanese cinematic works when the camera is compared to the cinematic pen. It analytically digest the écriture féminine of parler-femme in the Taiwanese films The Butcher's Wife, Taste of Life, Sex Appeal, and Ghosted.

Author : Ya-chen Chen
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781527581333

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The Taiwanese Cinematization of Feminine Writing by Ya-chen Chen Pdf

A number of Taiwanese scholars gate-kept, filtered, selected, and strategized to transfer Luce Irigaray’s, Hélène Cixous’s, and Julia Kristeva’s French feminist theories into their own national context by exerting their cross-lingual and cross-cultural academic power in the 1990s. They also reshaped, localized, acculturated, marketed, and Taiwanized these French feminist theories, which was essential for Taiwanese academia. According to French feminist literary theories, écriture féminine (“feminine writing”) refers to women’s own written self-expression used to escape from the patriarchal language system. Beginning with a description of the acculturation of French feminist literary theories, this book highlights how women’s own spoken voices or autobiographical written expressions appear in Taiwanese cinematic works when the camera is compared to the cinematic pen. It analytically digest the écriture féminine of parler-femme in the Taiwanese films The Butcher’s Wife, Taste of Life, Sex Appeal, and Ghosted.

Author : Ya-chen Chen
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2024-04-03
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781036400309

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King Hu's Kung Fu Cinematic Art by Ya-chen Chen Pdf

This scholarly compendium offers a comprehensive analysis of King Hu’s transformative impact on Chinese martial arts cinema. It begins with a foundational examination of King Hu’s directorial influence, setting the stage for an in-depth exploration of his filmography, including critical works like Dragon Inn and A Touch of Zen. The volume employs advanced theoretical frameworks, such as David Bordwell’s film poetics, to dissect King Hu’s pervasive influence across generations of filmmakers, and the analysis of cultural translation and subtitling practices further illuminates the global dissemination and reception of Hu’s films. A critical focus is placed on King Hu’s oeuvre, analyzing its adaptability and intertextual resonance within broader artistic milieus. The book also critiques Hu’s representation of women in martial arts cinema, interrogating both progressive and problematic elements. Concluding sections emphasize Hu’s mastery in marrying classical Chinese narrative techniques with visual storytelling, highlighting his enduring legacy in the martial arts genre and global cinematic landscape. This volume asserts King Hu as a pivotal cultural auteur, whose work continues to shape cinematic expression and discourse, making it an essential resource for scholars in film studies and aficionados of wuxia cinema.

Author : Kwok-kan Tam,Terry Siu-han Yip
Publisher : Chinese University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789629963996

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Gender, Discourse and the Self in Literature by Kwok-kan Tam,Terry Siu-han Yip Pdf

Critiquing the fictive nature of socially accepted values about gender, the authors unravel the strategies adopted by writers and filmmakers in (de)constructing the gendered self in mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong.

Author : Huihua Chen,Whitney Crothers Dilley
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Chinese fiction
ISBN : 9042007273

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Feminism/femininity in Chinese Literature by Huihua Chen,Whitney Crothers Dilley Pdf

The present volume of Critical Studies is a collection of selected essays on the topic of feminism and femininity in Chinese literature. Although feminism has been a hot topic in Chinese literary circles in recent years, this remarkable collection represents one of the first of its kind to be published in English. The essays have been written by well-known scholars and feminists including Kang-I Sun Chang of Yale University, and Li Ziyun, a writer and feminist in Shanghai, China. The essays are inter- and multi-disciplinary, covering several historical periods in poetry and fiction (from the Ming-Qing periods to the twentieth century). In particular, the development of women s writing in the New Period (post-1976) is examined in depth. The articles thus offer the reader a composite and broad perspective of feminism and the treatment of the female in Chinese literature. As this remarkable new collection attests, the voices of women in China have begun calling out loudly, in ways that challenge prevalent views about the Chinese female persona."

Author : Tani E. Barlow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UCSC:32106018773041

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Gender Politics in Modern China by Tani E. Barlow Pdf

Through the lens of modern Chinese literature, Gender Politics in Modern China explores the relationship between gender and modernity, notions of the feminine and masculine, and shifting arguments for gender equality in China. Ranging from interviews with contemporary writers, to historical accounts of gendered writing in Taiwan and semi-colonial China, to close feminist readings of individual authors, these essays confront the degree to which textual stategies construct notions of gender. Among the specific themes discussed are: how femininity is produced in texts by allocating women to domestic space; the extent to which textual production lies at the base of a changing, historically specific code of the feminine; the extent to which women in modern Chinese societies are products of literary canons; the ways in which the historical processes of gendering have operated in Chinese modernity vis à vis modernity in the West; the representation of feminists as avengers and as westernized women; and the meager recognition of feminism as a serious intellectual current and a large body of theory. Originally published as a special issue of Modern Chinese Literature (Spring & Fall 1988), this expanded book represents some of the most compelling new work in post-Mao feminist scholarship and will appeal to all those concerned with understanding a revitalized feminism in the Chinese context. Contributors. Carolyn Brown, Ching-kiu Stephen Chan, Sung-sheng Yvonne Chang, Yu-shih Chen, Rey Chow, Randy Kaplan, Richard King, Wolfgang Kubin, Wendy Larson, Lydia Liu, Seung-Yeun Daisy Ng, Jon Solomon, Meng Yue, Wang Zheng

Author : Claudia Benthien,Jordis Lau,Maraike M. Marxsen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1138091510

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The Literariness of Media Art by Claudia Benthien,Jordis Lau,Maraike M. Marxsen Pdf

The beginning of the 20th century saw literary scholars from Russia positing a new definition for the nature of literature. Within the framework of Russian Formalism, the term 'literariness' was coined. The driving force behind this theoretical inquiry was the desire to identify literature--and art in general--as a way of revitalizing human perception, which had been numbed by the automatization of everyday life. The transformative power of 'literariness' is made manifest in many media artworks by renowned artists such as Chantal Akerman, Mona Hatoum, Gary Hill, Jenny Holzer, William Kentridge, Nalini Malani, Bruce Nauman, Martha Rosler, and Lawrence Weiner. The authors use literariness as a tool to analyze the aesthetics of spoken or written language within experimental film, video performance, moving image installations, and other media-based art forms. This volume uses as its foundation the Russian Formalist school of literary theory, with the goal of extending these theories to include contemporary concepts in film and media studies, such as Neoformalism, intermediality, remediation, and postdrama.

Author : Haruo Shirane,Tomi Suzuki
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781316368282

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The Cambridge History of Japanese Literature by Haruo Shirane,Tomi Suzuki Pdf

The Cambridge History of Japanese Literature provides, for the first time, a history of Japanese literature with comprehensive coverage of the premodern and modern eras in a single volume. The book is arranged topically in a series of short, accessible chapters for easy access and reference, giving insight into both canonical texts and many lesser known, popular genres, from centuries-old folk literature to the detective fiction of modern times. The various period introductions provide an overview of recurrent issues that span many decades, if not centuries. The book also places Japanese literature in a wider East Asian tradition of Sinitic writing and provides comprehensive coverage of women's literature as well as new popular literary forms, including manga (comic books). An extensive bibliography of works in English enables readers to continue to explore this rich tradition through translations and secondary reading.

Author : Ignacio López-Calvo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 683 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108487375

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A History of Chilean Literature by Ignacio López-Calvo Pdf

This book covers the heterogeneity of Chilean literary production from the times of the Spanish conquest to the present. It shifts critical focus from national identity and issues to a more multifaceted transnational, hemispheric, and global approach. Its emphasis is on the paradigm transition from the purportedly homogeneous to the heterogeneous.

Author : David H. Fleming,Simon Harrison
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783030496753

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Chinese Urban Shi-nema by David H. Fleming,Simon Harrison Pdf

This book dives into the mise-en-scène of contemporary China to explore the “becoming cinema” of Chinese cities, societies, and subjectivities. Set in the wake of China’s radical and rapid period of urbanization and infrastructural transformation, and situating itself in the processual city of Ningbo, the book combines empirical, ficto-critical, and philosophical methods to generate a dynamic account of everyday life as new forms of consumer culture bed in. Harnessing a Realist approach that allows for different scales of analysis, the book zooms in on five architectural assemblages including: surreal real estate showrooms; a fragmented history museum; China’s “first and best” Sino-foreign university; a new “Old town”; and weird gamified “any-now(here)-spaces.” Together these modern arrangements and machines for living cast light upon the broader picture sweeping up greater China.

Author : Matthew D. Johnson,Keith B. Wagner,Kiki Tianqi Yu,Luke Vulpiani
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781623568474

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China's iGeneration by Matthew D. Johnson,Keith B. Wagner,Kiki Tianqi Yu,Luke Vulpiani Pdf

This book is open access and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Knowledge Unlatched. This innovative collection of essays on twenty-first century Chinese cinema and moving image culture features contributions from an international community of scholars, critics, and practitioners. Taken together, their perspectives make a compelling case that the past decade has witnessed a radical transformation of conventional notions of cinema. Following China's accession to the WTO in 2001, personal and collective experiences of changing social conditions have added new dimensions to the increasingly diverse Sinophone media landscape, and provided a novel complement to the existing edifice of blockbusters, documentaries, and auteur culture. The numerous 'iGeneration' productions and practices examined in this volume include 3D and IMAX films, experimental documentaries, animation, visual aides-mémoires, and works of pirated pastiche. Together, they bear witness to the emergence of a new Chinese cinema characterized by digital and, trans-media representational strategies, the blurring of private/public distinctions, and dynamic reinterpretations of the very notion of 'cinema' itself.

Author : George Bluestone
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Novels Into Film by George Bluestone Pdf

Author : J.P. Telotte
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2008-05-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780813138732

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The Essential Science Fiction Television Reader by J.P. Telotte Pdf

“A richly detailed and critically penetrating overview . . . from the plucky adventures of Captain Video to the postmodern paradoxes of The X-Files and Lost.” —Rob Latham, coeditor of Science Fiction Studies Exploring such hits as The Twilight Zone, Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica, and Lost, among others, The Essential Science Fiction Television Reader illuminates the history, narrative approaches, and themes of the genre. The book discusses science fiction television from its early years, when shows attempted to recreate the allure of science fiction cinema, to its current status as a sophisticated genre with a popularity all its own. J. P. Telotte has assembled a wide-ranging volume rich in theoretical scholarship yet fully accessible to science fiction fans. The book supplies readers with valuable historical context, analyses of essential science fiction series, and an understanding of the key issues in science fiction television.

Author : Aaron Kerner,Julian Hoxter
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 3030281752

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Theorizing Stupid Media by Aaron Kerner,Julian Hoxter Pdf

This book explores the stupid as it manifests in media—the cinema, television and streamed content, and videogames. The stupid is theorized not as a pejorative term but to address media that “fails” to conform to established narrative conventions, often surfacing at evolutionary moments. The Transformers franchise is often dismissed as being stupid because its stylistic vernacular privileges kinetic qualities over conventional narration. Similarly, the stupid is often present in genre fails like mother!, or in instances of narrative dissonance—joyously in Adventure Time; more controversially in Gone Home— where a story “feels off” It also manifests in “ludonarrative dissonance” when gameplay and narrative seemingly run counter to one another in videogames like Undertale and Bioshock. This book is addressed to those interested in media that is quirky, spectacle-driven, or generally hard to place—stupid!

Author : Jeffrey Geiger
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780748676149

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Cinematicity in Media History by Jeffrey Geiger Pdf

Highlights the complex ways in which media anticipate, interfere with and draw on one other