Queer Representations in Chinese-language Film and the Cultural Landscape

di Shi-Yan Chao (Autore)

Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2025

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.

• Autore: Shi-Yan Chao
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Collana: Asian Visual Cultures
• Anno: 2025
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 412 p.
• Dimensioni: 234 x 156 mm
• Peso: 760 gr.
• EAN: 9781041184829

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