Proceedings of the 2022 8th International Conference on Humanities and Social Science Research (ICHSSR 2022)

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

Authors
Hao Zhao1, *
1School of Marxism, Southwest Forestry University, Kunming Yunnan 650224, China
*Corresponding author. Email: zhh@swfu.edu.cn
Corresponding Author
Hao Zhao
Available Online 1 June 2022.
DOI
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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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2022 8th International Conference on Humanities and Social Science Research (ICHSSR 2022)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
1 June 2022
ISBN
10.2991/assehr.k.220504.283
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.220504.283How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2022 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license.

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