Women Filmmakers and Transnational China in the Twenty-First Century
This website serves as an English-language directory of women filmmakers engaging with China’s economic and political rise in the twenty-first century, and/or working within Chinese-language and diasporic cinemas from around the world from 2000 to 2020. This unique resource features biographical information, filmographies, and bibliographies of scholarly articles, books, reviews, publicity materials, news commentaries, and other materials related to key female film artists. A general bibliography lists supplemental information from cognate disciplines to provide a context for understanding these female filmmakers’ approach to China’s changing social and cultural landscape. This includes a list of resources focusing on the emergence of the #MeToo movement in the Chinese-language film industry and beyond. Links to related websites devoted to Hong Kong women filmmakers and a directory of Hong Kong media scholars working on women in film underscore the importance of Hong Kong as a location central to research on contemporary Chinese film culture.
The Hong Kong Women Filmmakers website compiles information on the careers of Hong Kong women filmmakers from the 1997 handover to the present. It aims to document the contribution women filmmakers have made to Hong Kong film culture during this time and situate their work against the backdrop of recent Hong Kong history and politics. The post-1997 era has been an enormously productive period for women media artists working in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR), and they shine as major figures in local, regional, and global motion picture culture. Taking the change in sovereignty as a starting point, this website compiles information on key films by established and emerging women directors, producers, and scriptwriters in order to explore the role played by these women in highlighting specific issues involving gender, sexuality, politics, and aesthetics.
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