Vulgar Beauty: Acting Chinese in the Global Sensorium Mila Zuo 2022

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Intended Audience
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1980s. 1990s
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Book Title
Vulgar Beauty: Acting Chinese in the Global Sensorium
Genre
Gender Studies, Social Studies,
Original Language
English
Topic
Film, film. culture, asia, Criticism, Gender studies
ISBN
9781478018117
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Publisher
Duke University Press
ISBN-10
1478018119
ISBN-13
9781478018117
eBay Product ID (ePID)
26050405611

Product Key Features

Number of Pages
312 Pages
Publication Name
Vulgar Beauty : Acting Chinese in the Global Sensorium
Language
English
Publication Year
2022
Subject
Women's Studies, Film / History & Criticism
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Performing Arts, Social Science
Author
Mila Zuo
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
16 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2021-030481
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
Anyone interested in performance, in gender and sexuality, in race on an international stage, in Chinese politics and history in this century of suffering, needs to read this book. Anyone hungry, voracious perhaps, for interdisciplinary diasporic and transnational critique that engages not only with cultural but also intellectual traditions from China and Korea had better prepare to feast., What distinguishes Vulgar Beauty is the way it constructs a fresh critical framework for understanding feminine beauty. With Zuo's theoretical perspective and erudite analysis, Vulgar Beauty is a necessary addition to aesthetic theory and critical theories of gender, sexuality, race, and ethnicity., In this gorgeously written book, Mila Zuo captures how Chinese female film stars perform beauty in ways that reflect their negotiation with the racial sexualization of their femininity. With a rigorous and lucid ferocity, Zuo boldly brings together critical theory, philosophy, aesthetics, women of color feminism, feminist film theory, and performance theory to help us understand Chinese women's presences on screen. Fearless and powerful, Vulgar Beauty is a pleasure to read., [Zuo's] metaphoric language, mostly revolving around food, offers the reader not only an intellectual exploration of the power of vulgar beauty to destabilize racial and patriarchal power structures but also a flavorful and aesthetic journey in and of itself.
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
791.436522089951
Table Of Content
Acknowledgments vii Introduction: Tasting Vulgar Beauty 1 1. Bitter Medicine, Racial Flavor: Gong Li 39 2. Salty-Cool: Maggie Cheung and Joan Chen 73 3. Pungent Atmospheres: Bai Ling and Tang Wei 113 4. Sweet and Soft Coupling: Vivian Hsu and Shu Qi 152 5. Sour Laughter: Charlyne Yi and Ali Wong 193 Conclusion: Aftertaste 234 Notes 241 Bibliography 267 Index 289
Synopsis
Mila Zuo offers a new theorization of cinematic feminine beauty by showing how mediated encounters with Chinese film and popular culture stars produce feelings of Chinese-ness., In Vulgar Beauty Mila Zuo offers a new theorization of cinematic feminine beauty by showing how mediated encounters with Chinese film and popular culture stars produce feelings of Chineseness. To illustrate this, Zuo uses the vulgar as an analytic to trace how racial, gendered, and cultural identity is imagined and produced through affect. She frames the vulgar as a characteristic that is experienced through the Chinese concept of weidao, or flavor, in which bitter, salty, pungent, sweet, and sour performances of beauty produce non-Western forms of sexualized and racialized femininity. Analyzing contemporary film and media ranging from actress Gong Li's post-Mao movies of the late 1980s and 1990s to Joan Chen's performance in Twin Peaks to Ali Wong's stand-up comedy specials, Zuo shows how vulgar beauty disrupts Western and colonial notions of beauty. Vulgar beauty, then, becomes the taste of difference. By demonstrating how Chinese feminine beauty becomes a cinematic invention invested in forms of affective racialization, Zuo makes a critical reconsideration of aesthetic theory.
LC Classification Number
PN1995.9.C48Z866

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