ISBN:
94-6298-803-X
,
978-94-6298-803-3
Language:
English
Pages:
411 Seiten :
,
Illustrationen.
DDC:
950
Keywords:
Geschichte
;
Homosexualität.
;
Film.
;
Homosexualität
;
LGBT
;
China.
;
Taiwan.
;
Hongkong.
;
Homosexualität
;
Film
;
Homosexualität
;
LGBT
;
Film
;
Geschichte
Abstract:
This book 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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
