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Film Studies
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Though
the actresses who played female boys were of all ages and performed in a vari-
ety of acting styles, they were generally small, thin, white, and photogenic, and
their performances combined boldness and vulnerability. Their femaleness al-
lowed them to convey fragility and androgynous beauty. These performances
demonstrate that cross-gender casting, which may seem like an inherently
transgressive practice to twenty-first-century scholars, can also uphold conser-
vative gender, class
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― Girls Will Be Boys: Cross-Dressed Women, Lesbians, and American Cinema, 1908-1934
― Girls Will Be Boys: Cross-Dressed Women, Lesbians, and American Cinema, 1908-1934
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A number of Chinese filmmakers, including Chen Kaige and Li Shaohong, imitated Zhang's visual style in the early 1990s by multiplying various erotic images of the oriental Other for global consumption. Consequently, these films, usually sponsored by multinational corporations and catering to the tastes of global audiences, can be perceived as following the same model -- the Zhang Yimou model. To a great degree, this model also marks the end of formal experiment for the Fifth Generation directors
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― Confronting Modernity in the Cinemas of Taiwan and Mainland China
― Confronting Modernity in the Cinemas of Taiwan and Mainland China
