Women Filmmakers and the Visual Politics of Transnational China in the #Metoo Era

by Gina Marchetti

Manoeuvring around mainland China's censors and pushing back against threats of lawsuits, online harassment, and physical violence, #MeToo activists shed a particularly harsh light on the treatment of women in the cinema and entertainment industries. Focusing on films from the People's Republic of China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the Chinese diaspora, this book considers how female directors shape Chinese visual politics through the depiction of the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 946372835X
• ISBN13: 9789463728355
• Release Date: December 2023
• Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
• Length: 400 Pages