4 The Female Gaze in Xu Jinglei’s Letter from an Unknown Woman (2004)

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgements viii
5. Contributors ix
6. Foreword xiii
7. Introduction: Women in East Asian Cinema: Gender Representations, Creative Labour and Global Histories 1
8. Part I: Gender Representations
9. 1 A Cinema of Pleasure: He Xiaopei’s Home Video Aesthetics and Queer Feminist Politics 11
10. 2 Work Ethic(s) of Being a Woman: Images of Female Labour in Hong Kong Cinema (1950s–60s) 29
11. 3 ‘Functioning on the Fringes’: Interrogating New South Korean Womanhood and Millennial Trauma in Microhabitat (2017) 50
12. 4 The Female Gaze in Xu Jinglei’s Letter from an Unknown Woman (2004) 66
13. 5 Ichi (2008): Female Stars and Gender Representations in the Zatoichi Franchise 79
14. 6 Agency and Subjectivity of the Female Protagonists in Qiong Yao Films 93
15. Part II: Creative Labour
16. 7 Japanese Documentary Filmmaker Haneda Sumiko: Authorship and Gender Perspective 105
17. 8 A Challenge on Every Page: Female Screenwriter-Directors in the South Korean Film Industry 124
18. 9 The Film Star and Her Husband: The Collaboration between Takamine Hideko and Matsuyama Zenzō 138
19. 10 Angie Chen: Hong Kong Film Pioneer 153
20. 11 Her Own Feminism: Authorship and Editing in Ning Ying’s Filmmaking Practice 166
21. Part III: Global Histories
22. 12 Figurations of the Nyonya: The Uses and Abuses of Peranakan Chinese Representation in Film 183
23. 13 Temporally Performing a Region: A Feminist Analysis of Southeast Asian Women’s Filmmaking 200
24. 14 Celebrating Women in Global Cinema: Disruptive Programming and East Asian Women on International Screens 216
25. Appendix 1 231
26. Index 234