Self-consciousness, Gender Performance and Ethos: The Female Subjectivity in “Human, Woman, Demon”

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10.2991/assehr.k.220504.283How to use a DOI?

Keywords

modern Chinese cinema; female subjectivity; gender performance; ethos

Abstract

Under a comparative framework of cultural differences, this essay aims to scrutinize the representation of female subjectivity in terms of self-consciousness, gender performance, and the ethos in China’s 1980s. As the configurations of women constitute a special field of cultural production in modern China, it has much prominence in understanding Chinese culture and society through studying the representations of women in modern Chinese cinema. The canonical feature film Human, Woman, Demon(1987) is carefully discussed to demonstrate the shift of narrative strategy, and the different implications of gender performance in under contexts of China and the West. At length, the issue of tradition and modernity is concisely illustrated from the perspective of the essay.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Hao Zhao
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/06/01
TI  - Self-consciousness, Gender Performance and Ethos: The Female Subjectivity in “Human, Woman, Demon”
BT  - Proceedings of the 2022 8th International Conference on Humanities and Social Science Research (ICHSSR 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 1559
EP  - 1564
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.220504.283
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.220504.283
ID  - Zhao2022
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