Women’s Cinema, World Cinema: Projecting Contemporary Feminisms
Patricia White is Professor of Film and Media Studies at Swarthmore College. She is the author of Uninvited: Classical Hollywood Cinema and Lesbian Representability, coauthor of The Film Experience, and coeditor of Critical Visions in Film Theory. She has worked extensively with Women Make Movies and the journal Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies.
Network Narratives: Asian Women Directors
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Published:January 2015
This chapter looks at how networks of women’s cinema in Asia constitute an important counter-public sphere in an era of media globalization. Young women directors are becoming visible within disparate Asian national cinemas, and their films’ themes and structures suggest a regional approach. Indonesia’s Nia Dinata works as a producer of other women’s films, revealing new configurations of feminism and media culture. In Taiwan cinema, young women directors like Zero Chou are part of a return to the domestic box office. The commercial success of Chou’s lesbian romance Spider Lilies (2007) brings together ideologies of progress, regional celebrity culture, local LGBT activism, and queer reception circuits in “greater China.” This chapter locates these examples within the festival, scholarly, professional, and audience networks that sustain women’s cinema within Asia and its diasporas.
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