Jean Ma: Sounding the Modern Woman

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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.

Über den Autor

Jean Ma is Associate Professor of Art and Art History at Stanford University. She is the author of Melancholy Drift: Marking Time in Chinese Cinema, and coeditor of Moving: Between Cinema and Photography, also published by Duke University Press.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments vii

Introduction 1

1. A Songstress Is Born 31

2. From Shanghai to Hong Kong 71

3. The Little Wildcat 103

4. The Mambo Girl 139

5. Carmen, Camille, and the Undoing of Women 185

Coda 213

Notes 219

Chinese Films Cited 247

Bibliography 253

Index 267

Erscheinungsjahr:	2015
Genre:	Importe , Kunst
Rubrik:	Kunst & Musik
Thema:	Fotografie
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13:	9780822358763
ISBN-10:	082235876X
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Ma, Jean
Hersteller:	Duke University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Mare Nostrum Group B.V., Doelen 72, ?-4831 GR Breda, gpsr@mare-nostrum.co.uk
Maße:	229 x 152 x 16 mm
Von/Mit:	Jean Ma
Erscheinungsdatum:	13.06.2015
Gewicht:	0,429 kg