Women in East Asian Cinema by Chan, Felicia; Elliott, Fraser; Willis, Andrew;

Short description:

Examines the work of women in East Asian Cinema in front of and behind the screen

Long description:

Women in East Asian Cinema brings together new and emerging work to highlight and explore the understudied contributions of women to the films and creative industries of East Asia. It is a book which foregrounds the importance of re-historicising women’s creative labour in film, not just as actors on screen, but as voices who have steered the production, circulation and consumption of these films across global contexts.
Over three sections, the book provides perspectives on gender representation in East and South-East Asian cinema; new explorations of women’s labour contributions as directors, screenwriters, and editors; and considerations of the contemporary circulation processes through which such work reaches global audiences.
By recentring women’s film histories within the broader history of cinema and interrogating the geo-political boundaries of what might constitute ‘East Asia’ in the process, this volume makes a robust intervention into studies of East Asian cinema and women in film.

Table of Contents:

Contributors

List of Illustrations

Foreword

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Women in East Asian Cinema: Gender Representations, Creative Labour and Global Histories - Felicia Chan, Fraser Elliott and Andy Willis

1. A Cinema of Pleasure: He Xiaopei’s Home Video Aesthetics and Queer Feminist Politics - Hongwei Bao
2. Work Ethic(s) of Being a Woman: Images of Female Labour in Hong Kong Cinema (1950s–1960s) - Fiona Law
3. ‘Functioning on the Fringes’: Interrogating New South Korean Womanhood and Millennial Trauma in Microhabitat (2017) - Dave McCaig
4. The Female Gaze in Xu Jinglei’s Letter From an Unknown Woman (2004) - Bérénice M. Reynaud
5. Ichi (2008): Female Stars and Gender Representations in the Zatoichi Franchise - Jonathan Wroot
6. Agency and Subjectivity of the Female Protagonists in Qiong Yao Films - Xuelin Zhou

Part II: Creative Labour

1. Japanese Documentary Filmmaker Haneda Sumiko: Authorship and Gender Perspective - Alejandra Armendáriz-Hernández, Marcos Centeno and Irene Gonzalez-López
2. A Challenge on Every Page: Female Screenwriter-directors in the South Korean Film Industry - Monika Kukolova
3. The Film Star and Her Husband: The Collaboration between Takamine Hideko and Matsuyama Zenzō - Till Weingärtner
4. Angie Chen: Hong Kong Film Pioneer - Andy Willis
5. Her Own Feminism: Authorship and Editing in Ning Ying’s Filmmaking Practice - Francesca Young Kaufman

Part III: Global Histories

1. Figurations of the Nyonya: The Uses and Abuses of Peranakan Chinese Representation in Film - Felicia Chan
2. Temporally Performing a Region: A Feminist Analysis of Southeast Asian Women’s Filmmaking - MaoHui Deng
3. Celebrating Women in Global Cinema: Disruptive Programming and East Asian Women on International Screens - Fraser Elliott