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Celluloid Comrades - Representations of Male Homosexuality in Contemporary Chinese Cinema (Hardcover)
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Celluloid Comrades - Representations of Male Homosexuality in Contemporary Chinese Cinema (Hardcover)
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Celluloid Comrades offers a cogent analytical introduction to the
representation of male homosexuality in Chinese cinemas within the
last decade. It posits that representations of male homosexuality
in Chinese film have been polyphonic and multifarious, posing a
challenge to monolithic and essentialized constructions of both
""Chineseness"" and ""homosexuality."" Given the artistic
achievement and popularity of the films discussed here, the
position of ""celluloid comrades"" can no longer be ignored within
both transnational Chinese and global queer cinemas. The book also
challenges readers to reconceptualize these works in relation to
global issues such as homosexuality and gay and lesbian politics,
and their interaction with local conditions, agents, and audiences.
Tracing the engendering conditions within the film industries of
China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, Song Hwee Lim argues that the
emergence of Chinese cinemas in the international scene since the
1980s created a public sphere in which representations of marginal
sexualities could flourish in its interstices. Examining the
politics of representation in the age of multiculturalism through
debates about the films, Lim calls for a rethinking of the limits
and hegemony of gay liberationist discourse prevalent in current
scholarship and film criticism. He provides in-depth analyses of
key films and auteurs, reading them within contexts as varied as
premodern, transgender practice in Chinese theater to postmodern,
diasporic forms of sexualities. Informed by cultural and
postcolonial studies and critical theory, this acutely observed and
theoretically sophisticated work will be of interest to a wide
range of scholars and students as well as general readers looking
for a deeper understanding of contemporary Chinese cultural
politics, cinematic representations, and queer culture.
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