Engendering the city. Representing Shanghai through the female heroes of Chinese film in the Thirties.
Abstract
This contribute has the aim to describe the representation of the city of Shanghai in Chinese film
production during 1930s through some female roles because of the sympathetic relationship between Chinese women and the city in the filmic imaginary of that period. This relationship engenders the city that like female characters is subdued by Western invader and by the metropolitan violence that spread all over the streets. In some movie the female face is superimposed with the city creating a reflecting image that muffles the bad reputation of Shanghai as the “Oriental whore” .
References
Bibliografia
Bao, T., Zhang, T., Liu, N., Mu, S., Ye, L., Shi, Z., (2013), Shanghai Suite, traduzioni a cura di Leonesi, B., Pisano, L., Stafutti, S., Viglione, C., Roma, Atmosphere libri.
Benjamin, W., (2007), Infanzia Berlinese. Intorno al Millenovecento, Torino, Einaudi
Boshier, R.W., Huang, Y., (2007) Untold story of foreign devil adult educators in Shanghai silk factories (1920 to 1949). Adult Education Quarterly, 57, 4, 329-345.
Dai, Y., (1999), Shanghai xiaojie, Shanghai, Shanghai Huabao chubanshe.
Dong, M. Y. (2008) Who Is Afraid of the Chinese Modern Girl?, in The Modern Girl Around the World. Consumption, Modernity, and Globalization, The Modern Girl Around the World Research Group, ed. by, Durham, Duke University Press, p. 194-195.
—————————(2003) Republican Beijing: The City and Its Histories, Berkely, Los Angeles, London,University of California Press.
Dos Passos, J., (1958) Nuova York, Milano, Dall’Oglio.
Gandini, L., (1994) L’Immagine della Città Americana nel Cinema Hollywoodiano (1927-1932), Bologna, Clueb.
Hansen, M. (2000) Fallen Woman Rising Stars, New Horizons: Shanghai Silent Film As Vernacular Modernism, in Film Quarterly, vol.54, n.1, University of California Press, p. 10-22.
Harris, K., (2003), Goddess: Fallen Woman of Shanghai in Chris Berry (edited by) Chinese Film in Focus, 25 New Takes, London, British Film Institute.
He, C., (2004) Henrik Ibsen and Modern Chinese Drama, Oslo, Unipub forlag.
Hershatter, G., (1999), Dangerous Pleasure: Prostitution and Modernity in Twentieth Century in Shanghai, Berkeley and Los Angeles, California, University of California Press
Hsia, C.T, (1961), A History of Modern Chinese Fiction 1917-1957, New Haven, Yale University Press.
Hua, F., (1929), Shanghai jiepou zhi yi – Faguo gongyuan de renshi, in Hong meigui n.32, vol.5.
Huang Z. , Xi N., Ke L. and Yao S., Comment on Night in the City (Chengshi zhi Ye ping), chenbao, 9 march 1933.
Lee, L. O., (1999), Shanghai Modern. The Flourishing of a New Urban Culture in China 1930-1945, Cambridge, Massachussetts, Harvard University Press
—————- (1987), Zhongguo xiandai xiaoshuo de xianquzhe, in «Lianhe wenxue» 3, no. 12, p.14.
Lethbridge, H. J., (1934-1935) All About Shanghai, an English-written city guidebook, Shanghai, University Press.
Mao, D., (1957), Midnight (1930), Peking, Foreign Languages Press.
Mu, S., (2004), Il Foxtrot di Shanghai, un Frammento (1933), traduzione di Masci, M., Milano, Aldelphi.
Palmero, P., (1991) Apologia dello Smarrimento, in Palmero, P., Terranova, A. (1994), Abitare l’Immaginario. Forme e Rappresentazioni della Metropoli, Torino, Celid.
Pan, L. (1982) In Search of Old Shanghai, Hong Kong, Joint Publishers Co.
Park, R., (1925) The City. Suggestions for the Investigation of Human Behavior in the Urban Environment, in Hatt, P.K. (a cura di), (1951) Reader in Urban Sociology, Glencoe/Illinois, The Free Press, p.19.
Sergeant, H. (1990) Shanghai: Collision of Culture, 1918-1939, New York, Crown Publishers.
Simmler, G., (2011) La metropoli e la vita dello spirito (1903), Roma, Armando Editore.
Shen, V., (2005), The Origins of Left-wing Cinema in China, 1932-37, New York, London, Routledge.
Sorlin, P., (1979), Sociologia del Cinema, Milano, Garzanti.
Sun, G., (1988), Jiu Shanghai chanji mishi (Secret History of Prostitution in Old Shanghai), Henan, Henan renmin chubanshe.
Xiao, Z. (1997), Anti-Imperialism and Film Censorship During the Nanjing Decade 1927-1937, in Sheldon H. (a cura di), Transnational Chinese Cinemas, Identity, Nationhood, Gender, Honolulu, University of Hawai Press, 1997, pp. 35-57.
Yeh, W. (2007), Shanghai Splendor. Economic Sentiments and the Making of Modern China, 1843-1949, Berkeley, University of California Press.
Wu, Y. (1986) Wo de tansuo he zhuiqu, Zhongguo dianying chubanshe.
Zhang, Y., (1996), The City in Modern Chinese Literature and Film. Configurations of Space, Time and Gender, Stanford, California, Stanford University Press.
RiCognizioni is published under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
With the licence CC-BY, authors retain the copyright, allowing anyone to download, reuse, re-print, modify, distribute and/or copy their contribution. The work must be properly attributed to its author.
It is not necessary to ask further permissions both to author or journal board.
