Sounding the modern woman the songstress in Chinese cinema
1. A songstress is born -- 2. From Shanghai to Hong Kong -- 3. The little wildcat -- 4. The mambo girl -- 5. Carmen, Camille, and the undoing of women -- Coda.
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| Format: | UnknownFormat |
| Sprache: | eng |
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Durham, London
Duke University Press
2015
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| Schlagworte: |
Motion pictures
> History
> Women singers
> China
> Women singers in motion pictures
> Kina
> Sångerskor
> Hongkong
> Film
> Sängerin
> Geschichte
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | 1. A songstress is born -- 2. From Shanghai to Hong Kong -- 3. The little wildcat -- 4. The mambo girl -- 5. Carmen, Camille, and the undoing of women -- Coda. "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."--Publisher's description |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-266) and index |
| Beschreibung: | ix, 282 pages 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 0822358654 0-8223-5865-4 082235876X 0-8223-5876-X 9780822358657 978-0-8223-5865-7 9780822358763 978-0-8223-5876-3 9780822375623 0822375621 |