Wang Ping and Socialist Chinese Women’s Cinema: Mainstream Feminist Culture, Multifaceted Practice, and Embedded Authorship
WANG Ling-zhen1, Trans. WANG Ling-zhen1, XIAO Hua2
1.East Asian Studies, Brown University, Providence RI 02912, Rhode Island, America; 2.Department of Chinese Language and Literature, School of Journalism and Culture Communication, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, Wuhan 430073, Hubei Province,China
Abstract：This essay studies Wang Ping, the first Chinese socialist female film director, and her most representative mainstream film, The Story of Liubao Village(1956), retheorizing female cinematic authorship and addressing two critical issues in feminist film theory and Chinese cinematic studies: the definition of women's cinema as an individual, marginalized practice automatically containing subversive effects; and the dismissal of Chinese socialist cinema as monolithic and purely propagandistic with no aesthetic values. More specifically, this essay（1）traces the formation of socialist feminist public/official space in the political-economic system of early socialist China, which plays the key role in initiating Chinese women's cinema;（2）stresses the importance of the public mode of film production and experimental nature of early socialist cinema in developing women's cinema; and reconfigures women's cultural agency as multi-dimensional and contingent, embedded within interactions among a multiplicity of historical forces.
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