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Sounding the Modern Woman - The Songstress in Chinese Cinema (Paperback)
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Sounding the Modern Woman - The Songstress in Chinese Cinema (Paperback)
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From the beginning of the sound cinema era, singing actresses
captivated Chinese audiences. In Sounding the Modern Woman, Jean Ma
shows how their rise to stardom attests to the changing roles of
women in urban modernity and the complex symbiosis between the film
and music industries. The songstress-whether appearing as an opera
actress, showgirl, revolutionary, or country lass-belongs to the
lineage of the Chinese modern woman, and her forty year prevalence
points to a distinctive gendering of lyrical expression in Chinese
film. Ma guides readers through film history by way of the on and
off-screen careers of many of the most compelling performers in
Chinese film history, such as Zhou Xuan and Grace Chang, revealing
the ways that national crises and Cold War conflict shaped their
celebrity. As a bridge between the film cultures of prewar Shanghai
and postwar Hong Kong, the songstress brings into view a dense web
of connections linking these two periods and places that cut across
the divides of war, national politics, and geography.
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