Vulgar Beauty: Acting Chinese in the Global Sensorium

by Mila Zuo

In Vulgar Beauty Mila Zuo offers a new theorization of cinematic feminine beauty by showing how mediated encounters with Chinese film and popular culture stars produce feelings of Chineseness. To illustrate this, Zuo uses the vulgar as an analytic to trace how racial, gendered, and cultural identity is imagined and produced through affect. She frames the vulgar as a characteristic that is experienced through the Chinese concept of weidao, or...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478015470
• ISBN13: 9781478015475
• Release Date: March 2022
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"