[Commlist] New book - Victims, Perpetrators and Professionals: The Representation of Women in Chinese Crime Films

/Victims, Perpetrators and Professionals: The Representation of Women in 
Chinese Crime Films/

TINGTING HU

Sussex Academic Press, In the Series Asian Studies

Victims, Perpetrators and Professionals examines the representation of 
women in relation to violence in Chinese crime films made on the 
mainland, and in Hong Kong and Taiwan. It introduces a new trajectory in 
the investigation of the cinematic representation of female figures in 
relation to gender issues by interweaving Western feminist and 
postfeminist critiques with traditional Chinese sociocultural discourse.

An in-depth narrative identifies three major representations of women: 
the female victim, the female perpetrator of violence, and the female 
professional. Salience to contemporary society shows up in many ways, 
passive and active, all of which reinforce a sense of male dominance and 
patriarchal power. Analysis bridges the gap in the field of female 
representation in Chinese culture/Chinese film studies by systematically 
examining Chinese crime films as a genre in its own right. The depiction 
of female victimisation at the hands of men in the selected crime films 
consolidates the notion of women's vulnerability and inferiority as 
perceived in Chinese gender discourse. On the other hand, the 
representation of active female perpetrators of violence, and as 
professional working women, presents what may be seen as a postfeminist 
masquerade – a cultural strategy that shows an ostensible impression of 
female empowerment albeit that it reinforces traditional gender 
hierarchies in the Chinese gender context. While graphic female 
victimisation is commonly presented, female perpetrators of violence and 
females in professional roles in crime films are shown to remain under 
the control of male authority, leading to the conclusion that Chinese 
crime films are produced in a context of heavy patriarchal power and 
misogyny.

Please visit the publisher’s website for more information: 
http://www.sussex-academic.com/sa/titles/theatre_drama/hu.htm 
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Amazon link: 
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Victims-Perpetrators-Professionals-Representation-American/dp/1789760925#detailBullets_feature_div 
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      About the Author:
      Tingting Hu is a Research Fellow in School of Journalism and
      Communication, Wuhan University, China. She received her PhD at
      Macquarie University, Australia. Her research interest lies in the
      articulation of film, media and cultural studies with feminist
      theories, transmedia studies in various socio-cultural contexts.
      Her recent publications appear in the Journal of Contemporary
      China, Television & New Media, Continuum, and Feminist Media Studies.

      Product details:
      Publisher ‏ : ‎ Sussex Academic Press (UK) (1 July 2021)
      Language ‏ : ‎ English
      Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 180 pages
      ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1789760925
      ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1789760927

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