Remaking Gender and the Family

Perspectives on Contemporary Chinese-Language Film Remakes
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-90-04-36329-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 9, 158 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 376 g

Reihe: Women and Gender in China Studies

In Remaking Gender and the Family, Sarah Woodland examines the complexities of Chinese-language cinematic remakes. With a particular focus on how changes in representations of gender and the family between two versions of the same film connect with perceived socio-cultural, political and cinematic values within Chinese society, Woodland explores how source texts are reshaped for their new audiences. In this book, she conducts a comparative analysis of two pairs of intercultural and two pairs of intracultural films, each chapter highlighting a different dimension of remakes, and illustrating how changes in gender representations can highlight not just differences in attitudes towards gender across cultures, but also broader concerns relating to culture, genre, auteurism, politics and temporality.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Woodland, Sarah

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmtheorie, Filmanalyse

Inhaltsverzeichnis

AcknowledgementsX

1 Introduction
Defining a Remake
Originality, Similarity and Cross-Culturality
Gendering Remakes
Aims and Structure of this Book

2 Remaking the Modern Family
The Construction of Gender in What Women Want
Sexuality in What Women Want
The Family in What Women Want
Reflections

3 Gender, Genre and the Auteur
The Coen Brothers’ Blood Simple
Genre and Gender in Blood Simple
Blood Simple Remade—A Woman, A Gun and a Noodle Shop
Gender in A Woman, A Gun and a Noodle Shop: A Lesson in ‘Zhangification’
Reflections

4 Ghosts of Chinas’ Past and Present
Locating A Chinese Ghost Story (1987) in Hong Kong Cinema
Remaking A Chinese Ghost Story (2011)
Manifestations of Gender and Sexuality in A Chinese Ghost Story
Forgetting History
Reflections: The ‘State’ of Hong Kong and Chinese Cinemas

5 History Repeating in Spring in Small Town
Cultural Politics in Spring in a Small Town (1948)
From Outlaw to Auteur—Fei’s Post-1980s Transformation
Reading Gender in Spring in a Small Town
The Changing Politics of Cultural Policy: Springtime in a Small Town (2002)
Re-reading the Remake—Gender and Politics in Springtime in a Small Town
Springtime in a Small Town and Political Revolution
Reflections

6 Remaking “China”
Remakes and Perspectives on Being Chinese

Glossary
References
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Sarah Woodland, Ph.D. (2016), University of Queensland, is a sessional lecturer in Chinese translation and cross-cultural communication.