Jean Ma

Sounding the Modern Woman

The Songstress in Chinese Cinema

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Produktbeschreibung

Jean Ma shows how the rise and domination of singing actresses—or songstresses—in Chinese cinema attests to the changing roles of women in urban modernity, the complex symbiosis between the film and music industries, and the distinctive gendering of lyrical expression.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Juni 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 156mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9780822358657
• ISBN-10: 0822358654
• Artikelnr.: 41243551

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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