Resisting the Stage: Imaging/Imagining Ruan Lingyu in Stanley Kwan's Actress

Author: Stokes Lisa Odham   Hoover Michael  

Publisher: Intellect Books

ISSN: 2049-6710

Source: Asian Cinema, Vol.11, Iss.2, 2000-09, pp. : 92-98

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Abstract

Gender has figured prominently in the work of director Stanley Kwan, one of several male Hong Kong filmmakers (Tsui Hark and Ching Siu-tung are two others) whose consideration of women and sexuality in the 1980s and 1990s deconstructed the ways that cinema "naturalizes" masculine fantasies and ideologies.