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Sounding the Modern Woman - The Songstress in Chinese Cinema (Hardcover)
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Sounding the Modern Woman - The Songstress in Chinese Cinema (Hardcover)
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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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