Gender Hierarchy of Masculinity and Femininity during the Chinese Cultural Revolution: Revolutionary Opera Films

ISBN-13: 9780367622701 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 120 str.

Zhuying Li

Opis

Focusing on the influence of Maoist ideology and masculinist power on the representations of women in revolutionary opera films made during the Cultural Revolution, this book considers the gendered hierarchy between masculinity and femininity in relation to the historic and cultural context in which they were made.

Spis treści

Introduction; Chapter One: Women, the Revolutionary Opera Films, and the Cultural Revolution; Chapter Two: Smashing of the Four Old Ways: Transformations of Gender Construction from Confucian China to Maoist China; Chapter Three: Masculine Honour, Feminine Shame: The Reconstruction of Gender in the Revolutionary Opera Films; Chapter Four: Patriarchal Power and Ideological Apparatuses: The Image of Female Warriors in the Revolutionary Opera Films; Coda